My 2nd (And last) baby is creeping towards a year old. I’ve been back at work a while and managed to keep expressing, but we’re about to start introducing formula (partly so I can have a lunch break again). I know that will trigger my periods coming back and that seems to mark the end of the baby days in my life. I’m feeling a bit....old. Maybe it’s the tiredness of two small children; maybe it’s hormones, but I feel neither the young attractiveness of pre-baby, nor - increasingly - the life-giving physicality of childbearing/nursing. I feel a bit invisible.
What comes next? And does anyone have any words of wisdom to make me give my head and shake and just appreciate the two beautiful children I’ve made.