Sad I will never have another newborn baby

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My husband and I have 3 lovely children 2 boys and a girl. And recently I have been feeling sad I will never have another newborn again. My husband had a vasectomy when my daughter was 8 months old. I now we did the right thing but deep down I miss the baby days. I find myself looking over all there old baby photos and I forget how small they were. I sometimes wish I had those days back.

I love tiny babies and had 3 of them but thank the lord that as that was enough. We have memories for a reason, that stage is nice to look back on but enjoy the stage your children are at now because very very soon they will be adults. Dont spend your days looking back

Good luck @topcat2014, great days to come for you I hope. Nerf guns, lego, playing cranium cadoo, finding a good park - I miss that age too.

I feel you OP. I have lots of DC by MN standards but also lots of MC. I’m very grateful for the DC I’ve got but did really want just one more. Now almost certainly it won’t happen.

As for enjoying the teen years — oh no!! I’m finding it absolutely awful. Maybe it’s just the personalities here. I’m telling myself it’s just evolutionary so I don’t feel too gutted when they leave...

So many women go through this, some have another baby because they need that newborn stage so much, which always baffles me as they’re newborn for such a short time! You’re then left with a baby, toddler, child and teenager!

I hate the newborn phase but love the chunky baby period but I’ve still cried at each box of clothes I’ve put away knowing they probably won’t get used again. I think I’ll be sadder when the next box goes as I’m in my favourite phase now. I love watching my children grow and become little people so while I get nostalgic I do not want another newborn. I’d love another 5m old though for a week every so often for the novelty. It’s my absolute favourite age for babies.

You can always do fostering, lots of newborn babies need loving foster mothers before they go on to being adopted...