Anyone have guilty thoughts of what they are going to miss?

[bubbles519]

This time last year me and hubby were in America on a 3 week holiday and the memories keep popping up on facebook. I feel sad thinking how it will be years before we go on a proper holiday but then I feel guilty I'm sad about holidays when I have my little one on his way. Anyone else have thoughts like this?

I think it's completely normal to feel this way! As happy as I was to be pregnant, I spent a lot of time ruminating on everything that was going to change, from my sleeping pattern to it never just being me & my partner again. And even after he was born, I had moments of mourning every stage that passed, and how I would feel, and what would change again as life as three progressed. I can guarantee that once baby is here, your thinking will still shift here and there - but you'll be in a very different place and you'll be amazed at the things you've forgotten or no longer care about! X

I do!!! 🙋‍♀️
Photos of being a size 8-10 in my bikini in the Dominican last year popped up on my phone the other day! I sobbed! 😂😂 knowing that it will be a while before I'm that fit and slim again and that I can kiss goodbye to a couples holiday for the next few years at least!
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, but I get where you're coming from OP! 😭

I keep thinking back to a particular period of my life that I idealise - living abroad, doing a job I loved, amazing friends, yoga every day, no responsibilities. It makes me really wistful if I think about it too much! I have to remind myself of all the great stuff that lies ahead with DD when she arrives.

I thought the same thing when I was expecting my first! I was thankful that we had just been to New York and Dubai a couple of months before I got pregnant as it would be years before we did that again!

But we took our daughter to Dubai for the first time for her 2nd birthday and last year we went to Santorini for two weeks and a skiing holiday to Poland! So things have certainly changed but now I love looking back at those photographs! I love her proud little face when she went down the ski slope by herself for the first time!

Hell yes. No more long haul holidays for a while, more money worries, being at home all the time, not being able to get a job (made redundant early pregnancy), not being able to decide at the last minute to go for dinner and a weekend away. Yes. And it's definitely ok to mourn your old life. But life will change for the better I am sure! 👍