Having a kid certainly turns your life upside down -- and your emotions can shift in ways you never expected. Some parents find that once they have a kid, they cry at every sappy commercial, while others have a stronger aversion to violence or find themselves dealing with more anxiety. We asked the HuffPost Parents community what emotional changes they went through after having a baby, and we got so many interesting and varied responses: “After become a mom, my sense of needing to protect my babies is so amped… momma bear mode is absolutely real.” -- Candyce Smst Hunter “I've always been an emotional person (I could cry at a drop of a hat), but after I had my first son and more so after my second, I cry less.