When DId You Fall In Love With Your Baby?

[fionas]

I'm just interested in other people's experiences on this.

I don't think I really expected to have that rush of love when DD was first born ... and I didn't . In the hospital, I was fascinated with her, but I don't think I felt love just yet.

Now, I'm someone who worries about most things but I didn't worry about it because I had read that it could take a while.

I think my 'moment' was when DD was a few weeks old and I was in the shower and I just physically missed her and wanted to see her little face. And then a little bit later, I was in a cab going to a physio appointment and I just had her smile in my head which made me smile and I wanted to open the cab windows and shout to the world, "I'M A MUM!"

And was it the same or different for all your babies?

[AJC]

When I breast fed him for the first time, he was born 7.25am but I didn't get to feed him until that night as he had to go straight to the special care nursery 10 mins after birth.

[Laranna]

When they placed him on my chest when he was born. I felt this strong, overwhelming sense of love that I didn't expect to feel. It blew me away. I just lay there staring at him and smelling him and then the middie says "You can kiss him you know." And so I did.

[Lozza]

The moment i laid eyes on my ds. I couldn't stop staring at him and still 6months on i could stare at him all day

[Novella]

I loved them from day one but 'fell in love' with both my girls around 5-6 weeks, as I got to know them not just because they were my babies iykwim and it just gets stronger everyday

[Glamourcide]

Pretty much straight away for me... although that could just have been the drugs talking!! I don't know, it was really strange, the midwife put this greasy, grey, wrinkled lump of baby on my chest and it just kind of went 'BOOM' in my head... then I had a really bad bleed (3.5 litres in under 10 mins) and was unconscious, I truly believe the only thing that made me want to fight my way back rather than just go to sleep and drift off was hearing DD's first cry, I wanted to hold her again.
The first couple of days in hospital were more a surreal feeling than anything else, I was woozy from the drugs and blood loss, starving because I can't bring myself to eat hospital food (DH and parents were on call to bring me cheeseburgers and fries, it was all I could keep down) and I was completely bewildered by my little bundle of joy... I couldn't stand to be away from her for more than two seconds but I'm not sure if that was 'love' or just maternal instinct.
The feelings were there right from the start, but I think the first 'real' moment I knew I loved her was about a week or two later when I finally realised that her 'real' mummy wasnt coming to pick her up, that she was actually mine and that DH and I had actually created her.
It was a beautiful feeling.

[aussienic]

With my first it was around 10 weeks.. I just felt this overwhelming feeling and I realized it was love With my other 3 it was at birth. As soon as they were lifted up I just felt that same rush

[~Trish~]

It took me a few weeks to fall in love with DS1, I had a very long labour and a terrible recovery afterwards so it made it hard to bond with him. I loved him, but didn't feel "in love" with him yet. Once I started getting some energy back it all started to sink in and I fell in love with my little man .

With DS2 it was instant, I already had that maternal instinct. When he was placed on my chest I was instantly in love with him .

[Tegam]

When they are on your chest and you get that first smell of them! its so animalistic and honest........

Its brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it. I think thats why i want more, i am addicted to that feeling!