To feel a bit wobbly putting these baby clothes away?

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DC3 is coming up for 4 months and I'm finally getting round to tidying away the last of the tiny little stuff that she is too big for now.

She is definitely our last baby so I'm sitting feeling a little bit funny looking at stuff that's been worn by all 3 DC and it won't be coming out again.

Do I require a slap with a wet fish, or are we allowed the odd wallowing moment when our tiny baby gets bigger all of a sudden?

I felt the same packing away DC2's stuff. She is our last baby....

When I packed it all up first time around, I hoped and prayed we'd see it again (recurrent miscarriage sufferer but we'd always planned to try again) so it didn't feel so final. Packing up everything this time did make me shed a tear - no more baby gear for me.

Yanbu x1000. This morning I was fully resolved to sort through dc2's baby things and take round to my pregnant friend's house tomorrow. Couldn't do it. Ended up sniffing the last of the baby smell off them like some kind of crazed loon. Dc2 is only 9months! We haven't decided about dc3 busy trying to persuade dh to go for another year of sleep deprivation so I've got an excuse to keep them. But if we decide not to have another or can't, I think I'll feel even worse as I could have enjoyed seeing my friend's baby in them! I'm a fool. But I completely understand where you are coming from here.
I find it really hard to part with any of the dc's things (including drawings, toys etc) and as dh's dad has brought us all his childhood stuff(!) and I've still got lots of my own memorabilia, we are clearly destined to end up like the poor people featured on super hoarders...

Yanbu. I am packing stuff away to go to bil and sil who've just had a baby (same sex). Whilst I'm happy to get rid of significant clutter I'm sad about it too- loved sorting and packaging everything up for storage after having dc1 but dc2 is def our last.

I'm not there yet as planning one more but can imagine its a sad feeling. How about preserving your favourite outfits and selling the rest for a special family treat/day out? This is what I intend to do when the time comes.

A friend of mine had her favourite items of her dc's clothing made into a memory blanket and weighted bears for each of them, weighted to their birth weight with her favourite outfit of theirs to make it. Quite a few companies offer this service.

Definitely not unreasonable. DS coming up to six months and ive been having a wobble packing all the small things away, some of it hardly worn. He will be our only baby, not through our choice, but we are extremely lucky to have him so seeing him grow so fast makes me even more emotional. It's going too fast!

Yanbu. When I found out DC3 was another girl (had DD and DS already) I started clearing out all DS's baby clothes from the loft and was surprised at how sad I felt about it. I actually don't feel so sad packing DD2's things away because I'm handing them on to my cousin who is pg. It's nice to know they'll get used again within the family even if it won't be us.

I'm the same monkeymamma I can't throw stuff away and my Mum has all my toys and books.

She's my wee bonus baby as we were definitely stopping at two but talked ourselves into ttc 'to see what happened'. What happened being a baby nine months later. Still feeling so lucky and can't stop grinning at her. Even if I'm so tired I'm fit for nothing.

She's only 4 months old.

I won't slap you with a wet fish as these moments can flash up and smack us round the chops at any time.

My three are now 16 , 18 and 20 and I still recall bursting into tears when I found a set of photographs of them as baby, toddler and 5 year old on ds3's first day at school.

I howled all morning as I realised how fast they had all grown up, there was no baby no.4 either.

I have been putting aside favourite things for a memory box type idea.

I'm sure I'll get round to that sometime....

We were clearing out the loft a few months ago and mine and my Dsis baby things were brought out, my DM got all bleary eyed and nostalgic (and she's not the bleary eyed, nostalgic type!) And then lovingly sniffed and folded each and every piece back into the airtight box (which apparently cost a fortune in 1993, but she wanted to save the smell!) There's stuff she saved for my currently imaginary children. I'm 29 and my Dsis is 23, so I think after four months you're doing super well!

I passed on my second child's baby things with a lump in my throat. I wanted them to be used again, we knew we weren't going to have any more but it still felt strange.
I have made a memory box for both of my children, they contain their first babygro, a couple of my favourite new baby outfits, their first tiny shoes and their first blanket. There were just a few things I could not bring myself to part with!

I have kept a few things from each baby (I only have 2). A sleep suit, cardy, hat, what they wore for their Welcomings and their first shoes. WE do not have a huge house with lots of storage space. When I was expecting DC1, DM gave me a suitcase full of 30 year old baby clothes with the (loaded) words "your sister didn't want these, I'm sure you will" - the elastic was all perished, the fabrics were tired and floppy, not to say a bit stained and smelly, and had lost all their stretch. And they looked really dated, but not in a good way! There was a pair of red denim dungarees that DDad had brought back from the US when I was a toddler that my DC both wore too, I have kept them, but other than that I kept DC1's baby clothes but gave them away as DC2 grew out of them. Out house is too small for nostalgia!