Anyone else feel sad about their baby growing up and starting solids, moving into their own room etc?

[Latenightmumma]

My LO just turned 6 months and the thought of all the upcoming transitions are killing me! He’s about to start weaning and I’m sure his teeth are coming soon, and I just feel upset everytime I think about the fact he’s at that stage already? We’ll be soon packaging up the Moses basket and bassinet section of the pram, and don’t even get me started thinking about him moving into the nursery and out of our room - I could just cry thinking about it!

I know it’s illogical thinking and the changes are inevitable and part of life, but I’m just so emotional thinking about how he’s not my tiny newborn baby anymore! Anyone else going through this? My husband is totally unaffected of course and thinks it’s all great lol.

It's a long while ago but I can remember crying when my DC1 got teeth because they looked more like a child and less like a baby.

If it helps you barely notice with the second

Every step will be like that, I'm afraid, right up to sadness they are leaving school and moving away to university.

The trick is to cherish every stage, it is no better or worse than the previous one. Having said that, my favourite stages were toddlers, 8 - 9 years and then late teens.

Having successful, happy and settled adult DC is also amazing.

Just enjoy seeing your baby grow.

I’m afraid you can’t do anything about his teeth growing, but if you’d prefer him to stay in your room, it’s not the law of the Medes and the Persians or anything. He doesn’t need a room of his own. We coslept with DS for years.

In a few blinks of an eye they will be on to the next stage. Mine are 21 and 19 and are moving out of the home - not just isn’t their own rooms.

Enjoy it as a journey and watching them develop and grown (and don’t listen to that ABBA song too often).

I still just think about how happy we and fortunate we all are to have healthy children who are developing normally!

Don't give yourself anxiety by overthinking every stage, this is all completely normal and natural.

I actually thought I would feel like this when DS was born, yet didn’t. I’ve just loved each stage that follows. It’s so exciting (yet exhausting!) when they start crawling, walking, talking, having a little sense of humour. My DS is almost 3 now and I love the chats we have and that he tells me he loves me and wraps his arms around me to give me a “squeezie hug”. And sleeping through the night!
All the new phases will be amazing too. Exciting things to come!

It never goes away 😅 mine are 8 and 10 and I constantly feel like their growing up too fast. I know it's silly and I am grateful their growing up happy and healthy, but sometimes I do wish I could just keep them little forever

You don’t have to put him in a separate room just because he’s six months old? That’s quite a modern/Western notion really!

Your husbands right it will all be great! It’s a new stage and it’s so wonderful watching your baby grow! The alternative wouldn’t bear thinking about so just enjoy it!