Is it normal to feel emotional when you're baby turns 1?

[RedRobyn2021]

My daughter is turning 1 this week

I wouldn't say I feel sad about it exactly, but tearful

I'm going back to work in two weeks as well and i feel upset about that even though I liked my job before for the most part. There's a whole ball of anxiety there about office politics. I didn't miss that.

I keep asking my partner if we can try for another now, even though I had HG and I definitely wouldn't be the right time

Did anyone else feel like this?

I just love her so much

I was already 3 months pregnant when baby turned 1!

So yes, probably!

I get emotional on my DCs Birthday every year - they are 17 & 23!

It's particularly tough when you go back to work so be kind to yourself.

Depends how emotional you are generally I suppose. I don't get emotional on her birthdays but I tend to see it as a celebration of the little person she is becoming rather than wasting time mourning the baby she was.

Yes I spent whole of baby's first birthday crying, I think it was more to do with the traumatic birth and everything flooding back from that.

Totally understandable. Your little baby is growing up.

No, I didn't feel like that.
I was feeling a bit of sadness that my baby is growing up, but at the same time I'm happy he's becoming more and more independent. I didn't really enjoying the baby stage. I think I'll be happier when he's 2+.

Nope, not emotional at them being a year older for any of their years. I'm keeping that for when they fly the nest.

Yes. Especially as you're going back to work, and everything is changing.

@HoneyFlowers

Yes I spent whole of baby's first birthday crying, I think it was more to do with the traumatic birth and everything flooding back from that.

Pretty much the same here - I can still remember the feelings and it was over 30 years ago!

Normal for me to reflect and feel like time flies too fast every dc birthday. Definitely emotional, pride and joy mixed with nostalgia, panic about getting older and life passing by and memories of traumatic births and lovely cuddly babies.

I certainly felt emotional when DS1 turned 1. I was recalling the past year with him, everything we’d/I’d gone through that first year (losing my brother to cancer).

It’s a natural emotion to acknowledge the time that has passed.