I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

Ok, OK, if you were to ask me when am I planning the next one, I would have given the "are you friggin kidding me " face.... Not that I didn't want another one, but I never wanted one so soon - I was still recovering from my c/s, lack of sleep, and getting used to the fact that theres an infant in my life.,...

And then, life began to feel normal. He's sleeping, he is part of my everyday routine. I lost weight. I forgot what life was like before baby.

and then last night, I cleaned out his bottom drawer. His bottom drawer is where all of his clothes went when he couldn't fit into them anymore. It was so strange - because the clothes were there in layers.

top layer - 6 mt clothes. Just growing out of them, a struggle to get him into them, not worth it, so away they went. Then, the 3-6 mt clothes. He just grew out of them a few months ago. My favorite clothes were so faded from wearing and washing so often. I remembered the outfits I sent him to daycare in during the summer...And then the next layer, 3 mt clothes. He was so tiny when he was wearing these.

And then the 0-3 clothes were on the very bottom.



I remembered every morning during materinity leave. Dressing him in these little onesies. How scrawny and tiny he was. How he would cry when I took his hands away from him to put them through the sleeves... how he would grunt and pull the tiny fists back into his mouth and quet down.

DH came home while I was emptying out the drawer. I held up the tiny hat he came home with from the hospital. Even he got misty eyed.

And then last night I dreamt had another baby!!! I even FELT the contractions. How weird is that?

and, although I'm almost 34, realistically, I know it can't happen for a while. Financially. Logistically. It would just be too difficult and not fair to Cailen and to another little baby.

So, what would have been an itch has to be coerced into a slight tickle.

But I can still dream.

Message edited 10/16/2007 8:04:50 PM.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

isnt it amazing at just how quickly they grow it isnt until you see those tiny little clothes that you realise just how much. i really have been having the hardest time with that whole letting go part you may have seen some of my posts on it but if you have an itch then i say scratch it or at least have fun practicing to scratch it

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

i couldn't agree with you more! i keep saying i cant have a 2nd baby until we have a house - hopefully by next summer - that is my way of puting it off, but man do i have the itch..(also i want to enjoy dd alittle more too while it is just us).

eta - it gets me so upset putting her "old" clothes away that she grew out of already..esp when she didnt even have a chance to wear them

Message edited 10/16/2007 8:29:50 PM.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I hear ya. And I know our kids are only a week apart.

It pains me to put away their tiny clothes These days, they look like a mini-boy and girl when I dress them. Never mind my DD is rolling all over the place, touching and manipulating everything and now wants to hold the bottle and spoon all by herself (DS still wants his mommy to to everything for him )... all I can picture is the intro to the Mary Tyler Moore show when she is throwing her hat in the air... it's as if every second DD is telling me... "I'm a big girl, I do myself" then she kicks her legs, smiles and she does it.

I must say to them, at least once a day, what happened to my mushy babies? It is very true what people say... they do grow up so fast.

Every day I hold them, I know it's one less day... soon they won't want to be held.

Everyday I pack away their clothes, I know they won't be passed onto to the next baby but to someone else.

My uncle said something very profound right after they were born... "Theresa, enjoy them, EVERY second, every second of every day, no matter what is going on, because from the moment they came out of the womb, they have been asserting their independence."

Uncle Pete was right, no trueer words were spoken.

Every moment I spend with them I know, ok, this is it... live in the moment because we are so blessed... they will never be this small again, and there will be no more babies for us.

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Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

i have to say that every night when i put my little baby to sleep i get sad inside knowing that i will never get that day back again with him. sometimes i just dont want to put him down in his crb i will just hold him even though he is asleep i guess im just trying to hold onto the day just a little longer. if you would have told me a year ago i would feel this way i would never have beleived it now all i want to do is have those moments last longer.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH



I hear ya. And I know our kids are only a week apart.

It pains me to put away their tiny clothes These days, they look like a mini-boy and girl when I dress them. Never mind my DD is rolling all over the place, touching and manipulating everything and now wants to hold the bottle and spoon all by herself (DS still wants his mommy to to everything for him )... all I can picture is the intro to the Mary Tyler Moore show when she is throwing her hat in the air... it's as if every second DD is telling me... "I'm a big girl, I do myself" then she kicks her legs, smiles and she does it.

I must say to them, at least once a day, what happened to my mushy babies? It is very true what people say... they do grow up so fast.

Every day I hold them, I know it's one less day... soon they won't want to be held.

Everyday I pack away their clothes, I know they won't be passed onto to the next baby but to someone else.

My uncle said something very profound right after they were born... "Theresa, enjoy them, EVERY second, every second of every day, no matter what is going on, because from the moment they came out of the womb, they have been asserting their independence."

Uncle Pete was right, no trueer words were spoken.

Every moment I spend with them I know, ok, this is it... live in the moment because we are so blessed... they will never be this small again, and there will be no more babies for us.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

Posted by babybugsmum

i have to say that every night when i put my little baby to sleep i get sad inside knowing that i will never get that day back again with him. sometimes i just dont want to put him down in his crb i will just hold him even though he is asleep i guess im just trying to hold onto the day just a little longer. if you would have told me a year ago i would feel this way i would never have beleived it now all i want to do is have those moments last longer.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I think you should start BD'ing

I have the itch too but money is so tight, we have to wait a few more months at least

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I am totally feeling the itch....and so is DH!! But, I feel like we need a little more time. We are adjusting to living differently with me being a SAHM and I think we need more time to "iron out the kinks" of that.

BUT....my SIL had a baby 2 weeks ago and as soon as I held him I thought to myself "uh-oh he could get me in trouble!!" and as I was thinking it DH looked at me and said "don't get any ideas!"

I was going through DS's clothes to give some newborn size stuff to SIL and every thing I picked up I held and sniffed and remembered my little baby in those outfits. I found the hat that he wore every day in the NICU, my favorite little onesie, my DH's favortie onesie and next thing you know I had tears running down my face.

I think I am emotional that my little baby is growing up. I went into my Moms job yesterday and her friend said...Wow...he doesn't look like a baby anymore he looks like a little boy. I try to treasure every moment now and not look to the next thing. I know this time with him is so fast....but I really can' believe how quick it is going!

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Awww I wish at times I could hit a pause button and freeze my DD at certain stages. I get so depressed everytime I put away clothes too

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Posted by stephanief

I think you should start BD'ing

I have the itch too but money is so tight, we have to wait a few more months at least

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

Tah-wee-ZAH your Uncle Pete is so right, I remember Jenna being so tiny in her crib and now she tells me no Momma I do it!!

I have no itch to scratch my baby making days are over

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Posted by lipglossjunky73

Posted by stephanief

I think you should start BD'ing

I have the itch too but money is so tight, we have to wait a few more months at least

Ahhh... No


Look, we weren't trying with Cailen, and look what happened... who knows where the next drunken romp on the couch may lead... but as for actively trying, DH would have me comitted...

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I put a BUNCH of Bryan's clothes away today as well. All his summer clothes and all of his 6-9 month clothes.
I worked on his dresser drawers and the closet. There were clothes in there from 0-3 months..OMGosh how tiny! Hats we used to put on his tiny little head, that were actually too big.
I just looked at the pile in his room 2 huge ziploc storage bags of clothes that no longer fit
He was 9 months yesterday. I'm so sad as to how FAST this year is just blowing by!
You have to take it one day at a time, but, I want time to slow down.

Oh yeah, I too, have that itch. Im hoping we can scratch it early next year.

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I know what you mean..and Im not having any more.

Putting those clothes away...and then giving them away...for me..just seems so final.

Im only 34 BUT realistically this has to be it for me.

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I was in king kullen yesterday and a woman who worked there stopped me to look at Taylor. She was telling me that when her son was a baby, she would tell her mom that she wished he could walk and do things on his own, etc. Her mom told her not to wish that time away, she said she wished he was a baby again.

Also, I was at my friends office and this man said " Oh, she is so beautiful, I am sure you hear that all the time". I told him we can never hear that enough. If I hear it 50 times a day its fine with me, knowing that DH and I created something so beautiful is the best compliment........

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OMG--we have the same life. I started to organize and try to put away his NB and 0-3 clothes and I needed to stop because I was hysterical crying. I mean, it was only May that he was wearing these things that are so tiny.

I really wanted to have another one right then

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

Emma grew so fast, and it makes me a little sad to look at all the tiny things she only wore for like, a week.

I would LOVE to have another baby in the house right now. But I am not ready to be pregnant again.

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I felt the same way with DS but now it makes me really sad to look at DD's clothes that she is slowly outgrowing because I know she is my last. Maybe by some miracle my DH will have a huge itch in 4 years and we have another but right now he is dead set against it.

Hey, their's nothing wrong with practicing though.

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I don't have the itch yet - it's only been 9 + weeks...but Sydney's 0-3 month clothes are just starting to totally fit...so in no time I know I'll be storing them away and that makes me so sad. She's still a baby - but when I look at her I see a little girl in there. Eventually though - the itch will start and I know I'll want another baby in the house.

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I just put away her preemie clothes-I may frame one of her outfits. My friend framed her sons newborn onesie and its so cute.

I definitely know I will get the itch but all of me knows I cant physically so I savor all the time I have with DD being little. Enjoy your son and take lots of pics

Re: I wouldn't call it an itch... perhaps a VERY light tickle

I feel the same exact way. My little Lucas is getting so big! I remember when he was born and he didn't even fit into newborn clothes he was so tiny. Lucas looks like such a big boy now, everyday he seems to grow so much.

So I know what you mean. I definitely get that itch sometimes. I am 34 as well going on 35 next month. But I know I need to wait just a little while longer before ttc. I just can't get over how quickly our DC grow!

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We're in that 0-3 months stage right now and despite the lack of sleep, the constant chaos and getting used to the fact that we have a newborn, I'm still trying to soak up DS being so tiny (although he already outgrew his newborn stuff!)...ask me if I want #2 right now and I'll look at you like you have 3 heads!

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Ok, this thread is making me cry. I always had the independent baby and now that she is crawling, even more so. I am so amazed how fast it all went- even more so than I expected and prepared for. I love my DD so much- she is just perfect. But each day she gets so big- I was looking at her cute feet today and they crossed over. They are no longer little baby feet, they are little kid feet- the hold her little body up and help her stand on her own. Before I know it she will be running to me.

I want it to stop just for one moment