Miss things already!

cali1710 · July 2016

I don't know about everyone else, but last night I was sitting on the couch with my husband looking at pictures from when LO was first born and a rush of saddness came upon me. I suddenly realized that she has grown up so fast! I barely even remember her being so small. I don't remember having to support her head carefully. I'm already missing rocking her to sleep (we did sleep training a week ago). She's too energetric during the day to snuggle. I miss my litte newborn and it makes me sad that in a blink of an eye she will be 1 and I'm going to miss everything that she does now. How is everyone else feeling?

jblake320 · July 2016

I feel the same

a month ago she still seemed so little and now she's crawling. I just thought I had way more baby time! I miss cuddles.

jrouge12 · July 2016

I hear ya! I have a big picture of DD on our wall from the hospital. She's so tiny and pink. I miss that! I love how she's growing but miss her being teeny tiny. Don't miss the hourly feedings though...

nackie · July 2016

I feel the same. I was just telling DH how sad I was that he was growing so fast. Especially since he's set on only having one. DH did not get the sadness at all.

JanuarysBaby1 · July 2016

Yes! But I'm also looking foward to her being a little bigger so we can do more things. I can't wait for Pumpkin picking, building a snow man and watching movies together!

ambercakes92 · July 2016

I feel so similarly. My daughter is practically a grownup now compared to her newborn self. I'm trying to cherish every moment.

lrayas · July 2016

We were at the grocery store today and saw a newborn there. My LO looked so big in comparison! It really made me nostalgic.

teachmegs817 · July 2016

I swear I was just thinking about making a post like this. I just went through all of his clothing today that we have in our attic. I had already put up there, 4 totes of clothes. I went a little nuts and with him coming early, we were in NB clothing literally, until he was 3 months old. I purged what I really love, for baby #2 (in case we have a boy) and plan to donate/ or sell the rest. I found a Preemie onsie that he wore in the NICU and one of my most favorite sleepers of his.

I can't believe that he was small enough to fit into that Preemie onsie. I still remember it even being big on him, when we first bought it.

I know we all take pictures of our LO's, but are any of you moms writing in a baby book, or even journaling about your baby and experiences with them? I seriously thought about buying a notebook, just to write down any moments that really stand out, or times when I am a big pile of mush and I want to write what I think would be this awesome note someday to my little boy, and he'd love it, lol.

jrouge12 · July 2016

@teachmegs817 I'm doing a scrapbook/baby book for DD with important dates of firsts . It has some ultrasounds and a hospital bracelet too. I was thinking of writing out in a letter format to her the story of her birth before I forget things. My mom seemed to forget a lot of things or not be sure if it was me or my brother's birth she was remembering. Maybe she'll enjoy reading it someday if she ever has a baby.

Edited to add one word.

cali1710 · July 2016

@jrouge12 great idea! I never thought of writing it out! My brother and sister in law had a baby two months ago and ask questions and I'm already forgetting when stuff happened! Ive written main things down like when she rolled, solids, needles, weight etc but little things I don't. I'm totally writing a letter thing!! Thanks!

mbud926 · July 2016

Yes! I love how he interacts with people so much more but I get so sad when I look at photos of him as a newborn. It doesn't help that he's already in 18 month clothes and 99th percentile. I feel like my baby is gone!

ctmamaoftwo · July 2016

Agreed I miss all the snuggle little baby time and I'm excited for everything to come but each day I try to tell myself to enjoy who he is today! I also keep a memorie book and I'm keeping an album on my phone of our favorite photos to make a yearly photo book through Shutterfly. And my sister in law gave us a book with different letters we can write to our baby to open at different times in his life. I LOVE it, I think it will be nice for him to open them and see how we feel/hope/love now and into the future.

Ljohn43 · July 2016

I have been trying to write things down in a little notebook, but I'm not always consistent. My favorite thing though is this app called Recently. Every month it makes a magazine of your fav 50 pics from the past month (on your phone). It is so much fun to get them in and I love the magazine format. I title the magazine "The ___(our last name)___ Family and it has January 2016 on. I love it!

maureenmce · July 2016

@teachmegs817 We have a baby book, but I only *just* started filling it out the other day and I feel like I already forgot so much! It was just such chaos in the newborn phase, time got away from me, but now I do really wish I'd taken a few minutes each week to note certain phases or milestones. I remember some, but others I'm sure I've forgotten. Like now she's going through a phase where she makes these hilarious baby dinosaur or baby exorcist (lol) sounds, like growling, hilarious vocalizations all day long, and I'm afraid I've already forgotten other cute things like that!

If we have another baby I'm going to make a point to at least enter something in a baby book once a week, even if it's only a sentence! Thank god for Instagram and Facebook, because at least I have one million photos!

jblake320 · July 2016

@maureenmce we call my daughter the grudge baby because of those noises

SDaniels19 · July 2016

Yes! I was so overwhelmed with all the changes/responsibility in the beginning that I didn't take the time to realize that he wouldn't be that small forever

Plus looking back on that time I've definitely got some rose colored glasses going on- it's so easy to forget the things that were hard and just remember how small, cute, and snuggly he was.

nackie · July 2016

SDaniels19 said:

Yes! I was so overwhelmed with all the changes/responsibility in the beginning that I didn't take the time to realize that he wouldn't be that small forever Plus looking back on that time I've definitely got some rose colored glasses going on- it's so easy to forget the things that were hard and just remember how small, cute, and snuggly he was.

Exactly! I also had a bit of ppd, so I really wasn't able to enjoy the early days as much as I could have

fishee333 · July 2016

I just ordered a bunch of pictures to be printed off my phone, so I've been looking at newborn pics of Freya. OMG I miss those days! I just melt looking at those pics. Also, my neighborhood is FULL of kids and newborns, and everyone is constantly out and about walking around (very kid friendly neighborhood, lots of parks and restaurants and other fun kid stuff to do) so I get all sentimental whenever I see a newborn, which is seriously almost every day. I definitely miss things!

BarrettJ89 · July 2016

At the pediatricians office the other day there was a baby only a couple days old, another in for their 2 week appointment, and another for their 6 week... I think knowing that we are 99% sure we are done having babies makes it harder. As much as I love Brynlee, I do not miss the grueling hours, weeks, and months of her screaming in pain as we tried different things to make her better. But I miss the tiny baby stage in general. Crazy to see how fast it goes. I thought that my toddler's growth had really slowed down, until I looked at pictures taken only a couple months ago. It goes so fast.

failuretofly · July 2016

I both do and don't miss the newborn days. He's just so much more fun these days! Although it makes me really sad when he refuses to snuggle now. I use snapchat to share with my family so I save little videos of milestones and cute moments almost daily so I can track back in my phone when things happened and have little snippets that I can look back on. It's really cool how technology has changed how we do things! I also have a baby calendar and a baby book we were given and I have tried to fill them out but I agree with PPs I already feel like I've forgotten so much!

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