Emotional before birthday?

[PineNutPine]

My little son turns 2 tomorrow and all of the memories of his first few days, the days leading up to his birth, the pregnancy etc have led to me spending most of today a bit teary and nostalgic. I should be feeling happy (and I am!) but also just very emotional at how quickly he’s growing. He is my first. Is this normal?!

It is, I remember spending early birthdays thinking "oh this is when I started labour. this is when I went to hospital" and so on... the birthday is as much a huge huge event in your life as it was their birthday! especially when they are so very young to not know.

Let yourself feel it, don't suppress, don't say "I should be blah blah" no, you're entitled to feel any way you do. Embrace it and deal with it. Enjoy the time, it's only memories.

Oh gosh yes exactly this!! I’m remembering where I was on this day two years ago, when I went into hospital etc. thank you for this. You’re right I need to let myself feel it.

Exactly! this is the time to remember such a huge huge life changing moment for you! Let yourself relive it, remember what happened, how you felt, all of it.

These early birthdays are as much your "mumday" as their birthday- after all it's the day you became a mum xx

Yep xx sometimes we just need to feel the grief of the push and pull of them growing up xx the holding and the letting go.
Anna's slipping through my fingers is a good one to sob through to accompany x

Very normal 🙂