When did you FEEL like a mum for the first time?

Just curious when other mum's actually felt like a mum?
Sounds like a stupid question but for me it took a couple of days after my ds was born. I had a long labour with him so dont remember much of it, then he was taken to the NICU for his first night. It wasnt until the next day that i actually got to be alone with him and have proper cuddles and to be honest i was terrified i had no clue what i was doing.lol
The moment that i actually felt like his mummy was when i got visitors the next day, a friend of mine was holding him and he started to really scream and she said oh you had better go back to mummy and handed him straight to me and that was when it actually clicked that I was his mum. I remember that moment so clearly even today 8 years later. I didnt have that with my other children just my first. It was very strange that that simple moment made it all seem real.

With my first i had a very long labour that end with a c-section. I first felt like a mum when he was place on my chest and he look at me. I felt so much love for this little person.

wub gotta love that feeling when no one else can get ds to settle... and when I take him he chills out right away. Mummy's boy!

My sudden moment was when I was talking to my dad about DS's tongue tie and how the midwife suggested waiting a few weeks to see how he was gaining weight. I really wanted it done as he was destroying my nipples because of the tie, I didn't want to risk him not thriving and its a bigger procedure the older they get and my dad said 'You're the parent, its your choice and you know what is best for him. Tell her it needs to be done now if that's what you know is right'. It was kind of like wow ... I have to advocate for someone else besides myself now!

From then it kind of happened gradually for me but I think the strongest 'I am a mum' feelings came when I took him home for the first time, the first day DP went back to work, and introducing DS to my friends and family.

Just curious when other mum's actually felt like a mum?
Sounds like a stupid question but for me it took a couple of days after my ds was born. I had a long labour with him so dont remember much of it, then he was taken to the NICU for his first night. It wasnt until the next day that i actually got to be alone with him and have proper cuddles and to be honest i was terrified i had no clue what i was doing.lol
The moment that i actually felt like his mummy was when i got visitors the next day, a friend of mine was holding him and he started to really scream and she said oh you had better go back to mummy and handed him straight to me and that was when it actually clicked that I was his mum. I remember that moment so clearly even today 8 years later. I didnt have that with my other children just my first. It was very strange that that simple moment made it all seem real.

Interesting post. Quite descriptive too. I can visualize that quite easily. I hadn't thought about 'when the Mum feeling kicks in'.

when i had my first and the midwife put him on my chest he got up with his little arms looked at me then flung himslf onto my boob, then did a poop and i didnt care one bit! then it kicked in even more when the midwife tried to grab him for weighing although she never said im just taking him to weigh the lil guy, so i lost it, where are you taking my baby?? i just remember thinking how beautiful and perfect he was!

for me it was as soon as I birthed him and they placed him on me I felt this overwhelming love for this little being and then I became soo terrified and thought what am I going to do as he was looking up to me to be the best I can be and I don't want to let him down

I never got that moment where they put him on my chest skin to skin. I did with both of my girls, maybe that is why it took a little longer with my son. I still had that overwhelming love you get when you know they are here it just took longer to sink in that i was actually his mother.

Not for 2 weeks or so to be honest. DD was born by emergency cesarean after lack of progress and she went into distress. We ended up staying in hospital for a week because she got jaundice. During this time my attempts at BF her failed miserably and I felt completely pressured by my midwives to keep trying the end result being my baby screaming anytime she came near me and I was in tears and anxious anytime she was due to wake up for a feed. I ended up feeling like she hated me. It wasn't until I was back home and settled and I gave up any attempts at BF that she actually felt like mine...

I felt like a mum the moment DD was handed to me, but i think it really hit home was when i was filling out all the paperwork for Centrelink and writing her DOB, that was when i was like wow im a mum now!!

I had a caesarean so was a little out of it and didnt really bond with DD straight away.

I think for me it was when DS was laying in that massive breathing assistance machine and I'm laying there looking at him, my whole body shaking with fear, hoping and praying that he would be ok. I decided then that I would do anything to protect him and make him happy and that is when I felt like a mum.