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Everything. Seriously. I don't know if I will ever get back to the "old" me, but I recently took one of those personality type quizzes again and I didn't know how to answer.

Questions like, "When planning a trip, do you always have to plan ahead, or do you like to go with the flow?" Well, before kids I definitely flew by the seat of my pants. I would have described myself as spontaneous bordering on hippy/flakey. Now after having 2 kids, trips are planned with military precision based on potential rest stops with good bathrooms and eating choices; or flights agonized over for best times in conjunction with nap and bed times.

So I answered every question the way I am NOW, not the way I was the first 32 years I was alive, and the result was a person unrecognizable to me. Like it said I like to have everything organized, and I worry about details, and I am a homebody. And none of those things are my real personality, it's just how I feel forced to be after having kids. I was always a sociable, hyper active, mostly unorganized, big idea person pre-kids.

It's weird.

Hi mama twin!

This sounds weird but I laugh more - not that I was super grumpy before but I was NOT a morning person and always rushing somewhere and super stressed about work and now it's just ... different. It is what it is with an infant. Hes up at the crack of dawn most days and he's so goofy we have to laugh and smile. It's a positive change for sure!!

Same exact change you mentioned. I feel like the Grinch whose heart has grown three times the size.

I'm definitely less drama, more relaxed but I also place a much higher value on efficiency. I notice it a lot at work.

I remember pre-kid a coworker took a Meyers Briggs test pre kid and when her daughter was 2. She said she was very different. I wonder if I changed categories.

I cried at commercials during pregnancy also. After pregnancy I can crack the whip and like to plan a heck of a lot more. Military precision as Anagram said. I am more of a homebody and a leader. Now I feel so good when the house is clean. Like I won a thousand dollars. Before a clean house felt like I won ten dollars.

@Jackiedavis87: I am WAY more sensitive, especially about kids and babies. I am also completely intolerant of bullshit or unimportant things that keep me away from my baby (peripheral friends, pointless meetings, errands, etc). I have trimmed the excess because I just don't have time for much these days!