Anybody else feeling nostalgic?

[dodi1978]

My DS was born on the 2nd of August, and I love him to bits, as well as motherhood as a whole! And maternity leave is just great... not just being off work , but seeing the LO grow up, develop his skills, discover new things together...

I've been off work now for more than four months and will go back to work in late April. This means that almost half of my leave is now over - soon I'll start the countdown backwards!!!
Plus, it was this time last year that motherhood kind of started... the first weekend of December was conception weekend , we found out about being pregnant on Christmas eve , I had my first midwife appointment on the 2nd of February, the exact date DS will turn 6 months... Then were all the scans, the dates of each of which I remember (I had four scans rather than the usual two due to some minor cysts).

Is anybody else felling the same way? Totally, crazily nostalgic? Everything I do seems to be full of memories... like visiting the cafe we went to after DS's first scan. I even welled up at the doctor's surgery whilst waiting for DS's immunizations, remembering my midwife appointments. And from the new year, these significant days will come up thick and fast!

What doesn't help is the fact that DS's nursery is directly across from the hospital where he was born. When I visited the nursery when DS was 12 weeks, I broke into tears just thinking about having to leave him and go back to work!

Ahhh, this is probably a rather useless thread! Just wanted to know whether anybody feels the same way! I even feel nostalgic about the day DS was born. Despite the pain, it was definitely the most exciting day of my life, in particular as nothing in the morning would have suggested to me that I'd be a mum that evening (he was four weeks early).

BTW, my husband, although he would never admit it, is similar... whenever he looks at the paneling in our kitchen, he remembers turning up to our first scan covered in MDF dust, as he was machining up said paneling on that day...

Nostalgic greetings...

:)
I'll join you. This time last year I was about to have my first scan I remember having a cry when they said there was a heartbeat.
I remember expanding weekly and the first flutters at 18weeks.

It's surreal to think my little bump grew and is nearly half a year old.

What have you looked back on most fondly?

I don't know what I look on most fondly... I just absolutely lived this pregnancy, counted down the days to each scan or midwife appointment!

What I do look upon very fondly are my visits to the local lido. I always went there in the morning, when it was all calm, and it was the only bit of 'me' time I got really (we are currently doing up our house, so even evenings were always hectic). I always had midwife appointments in the morning, right after the lido and before work, so I remember these visits particularly fondly, in particular not being able to go to the toilet before going to the surgery so that I'd be able to pee in the pot at the surgery
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I ended up swimming 25 lanes on the day I give birth, having put down the leakage into my underwear as my bladder playing up. The midwife put me right and I went into labour right on the assessment ward! The lido will always have a very fond place in my heart!

I don't feel nostalgic for pregnancy, but around the time DD was 3 or 4 months old I got overwhelmingly nostalgic for the newborn days and started feeling sad I'd never again get to experience those exciting, magical totally exhausting first days of getting to know her.

How about you?

I can relate to what you're saying. DD is almost 13 months old and I can't help thinking about this time last year: the build up to her first Christmas, how she was a tiny baby then and now she's a toddler etc etc.