Do you get emotional around your DC birthday?

[RosieLemonade]

DD is four this week. We've had rotten luck with each of her birthdays. This one is actually looking to be a better one despite everything.
Even if she had had normal birthdays I think I would feel emotional. Such a mixture of pride and also sadness that she isn't a baby anymore.

Not for those reasons, but the fact it's the anniversary of a traumatic experience. It's better as time goes on, and I try not to think about it.

Similar to Cuntryhouse, birth was pretty traumatic as he was quite early so it stirs up a lot of those feelings again. It's getting easier, I don't think I cried on his last birthday!

Not really. It's nice seeing them getting more interested in the concept of a birthday and enjoying it. Older one was 5 this year and solemnly announced he is allowed to do anything he likes on his birthday. "ANYTHING". Not sure what he was planning but boundaries were reinforced!

Makes me marvel sometimes at how quickly it seems to be passing but not a particularly emotional experience.

Very, but that’s because her birthday is 9 weeks before it was supposed to be.

I love seeing my children grow into their own person, being there to support them and their achievements. I have friends that are devastated 'their babies' are gone and I honestly don't understand their perspective apart from the odd bit of nostalgia.

Yes because dd1 birth has mixed memories of being the most amazing day if my life, so amazing so magical... But then the in laws trampled all over it and caused much heart ache and upset and it be came this awful event.

I’m still in the early numbers and yes, I get very emotional. I cry when it’s the exact time I know he was born and I held him for the first time, when my world changed forever and I became a mother. Also, of course it makes me reflect on how quickly he is growing. I love seeing him grow but also feel a twinge of sadness that this stage has passed.. despite my excitement for the next.
If I have the time, space and am not in a rush then I can get emotional in any context with my children!