Fee's World

I remember chuckling at my Mum for crying at things, film and tv would regularly have her blubbing and while I too would sometimes have a lump in my throat, it could be contained.

Now I’m a Mum? I read something in a book, or Heaven forbid a touching essay like this one by Anna Quindlen and I can’t contain my tears! Is there a switch? An emotional trigger that’s activated during labour? Is it hormonal, will it improve once I stop breastfeeding? Or are we doomed from the moment we become a Mama to face a future of chuckles from our teenage children for being over-emotional wreckages at the drop of a hat?

I like to think that perhaps we’ve been touched by the wonder of being a woman, a Mother, that our children have shown us humanity and true love, that’a the trigger.