To be sad that I may not pick up and carry my child again?

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I'm pregnant and can't pick up my 3 year old (he's tall, so more like a 5 year old). Silly, hormonal me is worried that by the time the baby is here and I'm healed from a c-section, my first-born will be too big/old to be picked up. Does anyone else still carry their children after 3?

My little 12 yo picked up my 6 foot plus DH the other day and carried him down the road. Kids getting older is fun.

My 5 year old still gets carried up to bed occasionally!

That last time poem always makes me cry. I regularly pick up my 11 year old, 8 year old, 5 year old and 4 year old. Sometimes I pick up my nearly 13 year old to see if I still can. I find myself taking lots of photos and videos of my dc when I think it might be nearly the last time of them doing something. I've got photos of last breastfeeds, pre-teens sleeping in the car and videos of them chasing each other in the garden.

I still pick up my near-teen for the odd hug!

I went to the cinema 2 days ago with my dd2. She spent the whole film (3 hours, yes, it was Avengers) holding my hand with her head on my shoulder trying to snuggle right in.

She's fifteen and a half!

Loads of pick ups left. I picked up my 9 year old today and I'm not especially strong either.

I carried DC up to bed until they were about 8. Just for fun. They loved it. And they love hugs, piggy backs, tickle tournaments etc. Loads of ways to sneak big hugs and cuddles. DC are now both late teens and I still ask them to sit on my knee for a cuddle occasionally even if we do it in a jokey way.

I've only recently stopped giving my 9 year old piggybacks you've many years of cuddles ahead.

@DustyMaiden - I do too (DS 17 and Aspergers) - still get asked to 'tuck him in' with a kiss and cuddle. His brother stopped asking years ago but gets one anyway since I'm doing the rounds.

I haven't been able to pick mine up for years now (all in their 20s!) but they often pick me up for a hug... and all of them still come for a cuddle when they want one. I think I last carried them to bed when they were about 8 or 9 so you have a while yet.

Oh I did carry DD2 to bed once... but that was after her 18th birthday and she was ever so slightly legless... luckily she's very petite but it was still a heck of a struggle !

I have a photo of me holding DS on my hip at Disney World at just turned 4.
He’s 7 now and I can’t lift him! He still sits on my knee, sleeps in my bed given half a chance and is about to jump into the bath with me

It’ll be fine don’t worry there are many years of carries and cuddles still to come

My 9 year old set me a challenge last weekend.
I had to hold him, plus his 7 year old brother at the same time.
I can easily carry either one of them to bed, or have either of them on my hip to raise them up in a crowd. I discovered in the Easter holidays I dont have the strength to lift them onto my shoulders now. Fairly sure I could get the then 6 yr old onto my shoulders last summer. I have a picture of my mother with a 5 yr old on her shoulders. Suspect my very tall father lifted him there, but she is then happily walking about with him up there.

Anyway, I can pick up the 9 yr old, and then scoop the 7 year old onto the other hip if he is already standing on the bed (ie I cant lift the second child, but can hold them).

I'd say you've got plenty of chances to carry your 4 year old.

17 year old ds can pick me up. He can also knock me off my feet, hurl me onto the bed and crash down on top of me, punching the air and yelling "oh yeah! Take down the old woman!". You have all this to come

Family holiday last year DF picked me up and threw me in the pool , I was 33 and he was 65 , there's time

@dementedma I remember DB doing similar to our DM!

I tried to pick up my 15 year old the other day and failed miserably, he can pick me up though

I carry my 5 year old up to bed every night and I don't plan to stop

My 5 year old ds will still have a cuddle carry at any given moment!!

Oh my god @Greencustard , I should not have read that poem 😭

My almost six year old son likes to be carried upstairs sometimes still. He's tall and heavy but I love the closeness

After two hard years of core exercise I can now pick up both my DS aged 8 and 11 😬

Can't really lift my eldest (11 1/2) but today I did lift my scrawny but solid nearly eight year old. I'm not pregnant but I'm not meant to carry heavy things. I actually still have an awesome half buckles junior sized carrier for my back which fits my youngest. And with her knees as they are it would be useful but I would be judged hugely if I used it. Have him snuggle up in the sofa for bumpy hugs

I assumed it was going to be that poem too. Tears sprung to my eyes

The 13 year old, who is taller than me, still likes to sit on my hip sometimes. I get her to stand on a step/chair first though as it’s easier. Thankfully she’s built like a greyhound, but it still doesn’t last long! It’ll be sad when it’ll have been ‘the last time’ without either of us knowing it was going to be. Oh and she still likes to see if I can pick her up like a plank. (I can, just).

Please don’t worry, once the baby is here, DS will definitely want in on the ‘bring picked up’ action.

Yep still pick up my 5 and 7 year olds, actually the 5 year old is harder to carry than the older one.