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This post resonates so strongly with me... I read it in bed last Sunday morning (and only just getting to post!) with my gorgeous three-month old boy next to me and welled up about 5 times just thinking about how all these lyrics mean so much now that he's 'in the world'... Absolutely love the Adele and Abba songs too...


Yorkie - your comment 'becoming a mother you lose a layer of skin which never grows back' is just SO true. I feel happier than I've ever been but also more emotional and soft around the edges - because there's so much more at stake now!


To add my own song - there are too many to list them all - having bought my lovely boy a Disney album for us to sing along to, I chanced upon Baby Mine from Dumbo which I hadn't heard in years. With practice I can now sing it without tears but if I think about the simple words too much, it can get me everytime. It completely captures for me the terrifyingly strong feelings of the newborn period and beyond...and when I sing it I always think how he will never be this dependent on me again which makes me happy and sad at the same time:


Baby mine, don't you cry

Baby mine, dry your eyes

Rest your head close to my heart

Never to part, baby of mine


Baby mine, when you play

Don't you care what they say

Let those eyes sparkle and shine

Never a tear, baby of mine


From your head to your toes

You're so sweet, goodness knows

You are so precious to me, cute as can be, baby of mine


Thank you for making an already soppy new mummy cry once again!!

When my little boy was born I would cry everytime I heard Tom Baxter's "better", it just said it all. Check it out on youtube sorry I don't know how to do a direct link. I put a DVD in his baby book as it meant so much to me.. "the more I talk to you....I fall in love with everything you do..." says it all, makes me tearful even now, he's now an energetic 3 year old. Love all the songs suggested so far.

Sillywoman - how did your daughter react to the link you sent her to the Abba song? I always imagine sharing it with my girls one day in the future, but wonder if they will by then just shake their heads and say "Mum you are sooooo soppy" LOL.


Had a lovely moment with O (6) the other evening when we were telling her how proud we are of the way she has welcomed her little sister into the family, and in return she told us how much she loves us, and her sister....and that she always wants us 'by her side' and always wants her sister to be 'near her'......ahhhh we know it will all change one of these days, but even so........

Here is link to siomcc's song Better, By Tom Baxter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_h_wZQjVvY

Lovely choice.


Molly - I dont know abot sillywoman, but my girls love to see me cry during "slipping through my fingers" they think its hysterical and always turn the lights up in the film so that I can't get away with a sneaky snivvle. Grrr!

  • 5 weeks later...

HeidiHi Wrote:

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> Mine is probably popular with a lot of parents but

> its:Youtube

> The first time ever I saw your face

> I thought the sun rose in your eyes

> And the moon and the stars were the gifts you

> gave

> To the dark and the empty skies

>

> The first time ever I kissed your mouth

> I felt the earth move in my hands

> Like the trembling heart of a captive bird

> That was there at my command my love

>

> The first time ever I lay with you

> I felt your heart so close to mine

> And I knew our joy would fill the Earth

> And last, and last, and last till the end of time

> The first time ever I saw your face.

>



THat's what I was going to post, Heidi!!

sense by the lightening seeds. it's been making me cry since i first found out i was pregnant. that and different world by jackie wilson. i'm a mess whenever i hear either of those.

and also one day like this - our boy kind of chose this himself and it was the only thing that would calm him down at times when he was grumpy. sums it up really. if i could only have one day a year with him it'd make every other day worthwhile!

  • 2 years later...

I often think of this thread, even though shockingly it was three years ago, tempus fugit...


Was reminded of it today, listening to the words of the lovely Ellie Goulding track 'How long will I love you?' which surely must have been written about a mother's love for her child. I love every word and feel they could have been written for me and my little girl, already almost 9 months old. Think my favourite bit is:


'How long will I hold you

As long as your father told you

As long as you can'


Forgive me the sentimental bumping of this post. It's almost Christmas and I'm feeling blessed with my two! xx

Ladies, I am crying my eyes out, mascara all over my face and I am at work:)


When baby Ivydale was born we were kept at kings following complications for ages and had a pretty rough time with it. My other half still sings "we fell in love in a hopeless place" by Rhinanna or similar. A pretty rubbish tune but it wells me up everytime I hear him sing it with his put on gentle soothing voice.


It is just something about this very masculine man making a huge effort to be so gentle that blows me away. Oh and besides, noone can make light of a rubbish time like my other half.

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