*sobs*. Oldest dd is 12

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I know it’s nothing for most of you but still sobbing

Where the hell has the last 12 years gone?! Where has my teeny tiny newborn, and then squishy little toddler gone?

My youngest is 10 so I don’t even have squishy toddler cuddles to heal me from her being the last year of being a tween.

I know all kids grow, bla bla bla….but still

My eldest is 21 now, dd2 19 and my baby boy 17,(and 6'5"!) I loved the baby years, but I am so enjoying watching their lives unfold as adults, and still being there for them whenever they need me. They bring me even more joy now! Don't despair!

Mine are 20 and 25 now and these days they bend down to cuddle me. The cuddles have not stopped nor the daily 'I love you'. 20 year old still lays across my lap under a blanket for a heart to heart when he's home from uni.

All of mine are in their 20s now. Still living at home (2 of 3) but they’re all so BIG!

I sobbed when I realised my littlest doesn't want to hold my hand. Not in front of him but that realisation they don't need me

All three of mine are in their twenties at the moment.

DD1 will actually turn 30 in May and the younger two will turn 27 and 23. All are now very much taller than me. 🤣 I am the little one of the family (DH is 6ft 2 and I only come up to his shoulder).

It's odd at first, but you do get used to it. I've no idea where the time has gone though. It's scary. 😲🤣

I'm in the same boat and we only have one (thanks PCOS) so I'm already looking into a future where DS toddles away to uni and never comes home 😫

2/3 of my 18 years with him gone already. Then he'll find a girl, settle down, have a couple of kids and spend all their time with her parents rather than us 😭😭😭

Oh well, I'll still have the garden 😂

I have 5 DC. The oldest is 32; the youngest, 15. Yes I do miss creamy, pudgy babyhood and squashy toddlerhood... but now I have all these amazing young adults to spend time with!

I really think that there's no best age of DC: all ages and stages are great and rewarding.

I took February half term off to be with my 14 yr old DD. I had planned lots of things to do in my head and was asking her if she wanted to do them. She said, 'I can't Mum, I have a job'. I spent most of the week doing household jobs 😢
I feel like I've lost her already.

My 13yo just appeared for a "light snack".
An apple, a banana and a yoghurt.

I remember thinking toddlers ate a lot!

Mine is 17 ands is going to uni in the fall. He’s chosen the very good school 9hr drive away rather than the very good school 3.5hrs away. When I say you’ll miss out on family things and we won’t be able to visit very much, he says he’s “ok with it”.

My baby is 6 tomorrow. Somehow it feels so much older than 5. He’s my blond curly haired angel and still seems so cute and babyish in many ways - but he’s started showing off in front of his friends and gets embarrassed when I try to cuddle him in public. Waaaaaaa!

My heart is💔 at thr fiddler on the roof lyric "i dont remember getting older, when did they" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

My oldest is 35. Youngest is 10 and sat eating his supper on my knee!

Life is so strange isn't it?
My youngest is 27 today!
We've just been discussing how she was born at two minutes to twelve midday; I remember it well!

They will always need you, just in a different way to when they were little.

I can't get this sentimental. They are hard work when younger, still hard work now. Little kids are sweet but nice to not be in charge of one.

I will be sad when mine leave home and glad to get a bit of time and space to myself.

My ‘babies’ are 30 and 28 and now have babies of their own!

Oh this thread is so strange to me! I never hark back to when they were little tbh. I always enjoy the stage we’re at, mostly, and I like having more time and energy for myself these days.

And my teen daughter is a joy; we have a laugh, go shopping, get coffee, talk about politics, I love watching her become the woman she will be.

All this hand wringing is a bit yuck to me; I don’t imagine many men sit around crying about it. Feels like something women are ‘supposed’ to do.

DD will be 21 soon. I am so proud of the awesome woman she is becoming, but still can’t believe where the time has gone

It's a modern family quote for me

Thing about babies, you... you fall in love with a baby with the cutest little fat folds, and then... bam... they're gone. But it's okay, because in its place is this... toddler with the greatest laugh on Earth. And then one day, the toddler's gone, and in its place, a little kid that asks the most interesting questions you've ever heard. And this keeps going on like that, but you never get the chance to miss any of them, 'cause there's always a new kid to take the place of the old. Until they grow up. And then... in a moment, all those kids you fell on love with walk out the door at once

The baby of the family is 21 next month and making a house purchase. We are going to be empty nesters <<sob>>

My youngest is 18.

its a weird feeling.

Ours are now late 30's and even the DGC are not babies any more. I have to say I don't really miss those days however, though I might look back on them with nostalgia. I love the people they are now.

The next the "little" buggers are picking you up...

I don't miss the baby/toddler stage at all.
However my daughter is 5 and this stage is the one I will miss. She's so cuddly, cute, runs and gives me the biggest hug at school pick up, and tells me she loves me daily.
I'm already welling up at the thought of when she's older and she'll no longer want the cuddles, and I have to admit, it's probably not that far away really.