You really know you're a mother when.

[TNDemo]

The poll about you really know you're married when got me thinking about this. I don't know if it should include fathers also or if that should be a different thread. My husband said he really knew he was a father when he could walk through the store with boxes of Kotex and Tampax under his arms and not be embarrassed and knowing who in the family wanted wings and who didn't.

I really knew I was a mother when I would find myself sitting on the toilet, nursing a baby and reading a book to the older sibling at the same time.

Your examples?

[Nlighten1]

1. You know you are a father when...

You have to take your 4 year old daughter to a public bathroom.

[boobooday]

2. You know you're a mother when

You jump every time you hear a child say "mommy" in a crowd, even though your baby is 17 years old.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[afraid_of_the_dark]

3. You know you're a parent when...

things that used to make you squeamish, like vomit or excrement, are things you clean up now without a second thought. And... you might even think it's CUTE when the baby expells one or the other!

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. You know you're a parent/dog owner when..

You see a turd on the floor and ask yourself, "I wonder whose butt that fell out of?"

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. You know when you're a parent when...

Your bed isn't a happening place because all the little critters in the house think it is.

[SarahB]

6. You hear a baby cry

And you start leaking something.

[Pithlet]

8. That happened to me today

At a woman's health seminar this morning. I didn't bring my kids, but someone else brought her baby and sat right behind me.

[Pithlet]

7. You know you're a mother when

you get really excited about the FedEx jumbo jet taxiing over the runway overpass at the airport as you drive under, and then realize your 3 year old isn't with you, and you get embarrassed. Everyone in the car got a good chuckle out of that one.

I love this thread!

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Heehee.. done that one

You know you are a mother when someone considers you to be a tissue, napkin, or toilet paper.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. You know you're a parent when

you suddenly start watching out for everybody else's kids as if they were your own.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. You know you're a parent when..

you go to a nice dinner at home of young parents like you and the main topic of dinner-table conversation is baby poop.