To miss my child

Take your condescending BS and put it towards your keyboard earnt psychology degree. What are your qualifications to make these judgements? Do you know the intricate details of OP and her household? I doubt it but here you are with your whole chest carrying on like some sanctimonious CF

Do you think it’s a good thing to introduce a man and have a baby so quickly like the OP did? Do you think it has no negative impact upon a child? Do you care about children in that scenario or just about the parent’s desires?

Is it the type of thing you would/have done? Have your children been introduced to many boyfriends?

This right here!

12 is so young still, she is still a child and still needs her mother. Nothing wrong with trying to put time away for just the both of you weekly. Sit and watch a show together regularly. Find something both of you enjoy and make time to do that together. It doesn't have to be hours and hours every week but your undivided time might just mean the world to her.

She’s still so young. Her memories of lockdown are happy ones which is lovely to learn. Life has changed for you all since then but you are still in the best days of your life with them both. Enjoy where she is now rather than looking back because next year you’ll be surprised at how much she’s changed again.

You could buy a little notebook and write a few lines in every so often documenting the little things she’s doing as a 12 year old, her interests, the things she finds funny, short interviews etc. Write it from your heart and you’ll find there’s no need to yearn for the past because life really is in the now. You can give the diary to her when she’s 21. You could also start writing one for the baby.

The nature of life is its transience so focus on the now and soak up her beautiful 12 year old self in all its glory because that too will dissolve. On her wedding day you’ll be aching for where she is right now as a 12 year old.

Congratulations on your baby. You sound very lucky. Sleep well.

What a stupid response. You think I have a miserable life because I don’t go around doing what the OP did?

How does that make sense in your head?

Are you right in the head with your judgements of others? Save your judgements for your own petty miserable life!

Can you make time when it is just the two of you? Weekly/fortnightly? My DS is an older teen now and when I think of him at 12 he was still so little. Your DD probably seems big to you because your younger child is so young, but 12 is still a young child.