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The truth is – you’re going to miss the baby stage!
Mom Life!
As I reflect on my week, what I think about the most is the wonder of those quiet hours of the night spent holding and comforting my baby. I had the pleasure of doing it again this last week. It was different this time because he is now a toddler and no longer nursing. I became very aware of just how much I am missing it, and all the other things I am missing about the baby stage too. Let me explain.
My baby, (actually a toddler) got sick this week. In the middle of the night, just as I was closing my eyes and dosing off to dreamland (he would have it no other way), my baby boy got sick in his crib and vomited all over the place. All over his lovies, the rail guard and crib slats, and the carpet surrounding his crib. My poor little baby! I immediately went in and picked him up to comfort him while my husband changed his bed sheets and put everything into the laundry for washing. I then realized I needed to change my baby’s pajamas and clean him up. Two days later, I became violently ill, the same day my baby relapsed and had another night of projectile vomiting. And the next day, my husband was violently sick! What a whirlwind of a week! Mom Life.
You’re Going to Miss This!
My baby didn’t sleep through the WHOLE night until he was eleven months old. I nursed and comforted him every time he woke, and that was my commitment to him. Luckily that was only once or twice a night, regularly. But I remember sitting in the rocking chair nursing and holding him in the quiet darkness of his room. This was often the only quiet time I got each day. I used it to think, pray, and ponder.
“You’re going to miss this”, my husband would say when I complained, which probably happened more than necessary. I always laughed and reminded him that his time would come, that once I finished nursing, it would be his turn, and that he would go into our son’s room when necessary. This week would have been a great week for that. He did go in to help. However, in all truthfulness, I wanted to comfort my baby! I wanted to sit with him in the dark and cuddle with him, to rock him and pray with him, to tuck him back into his nice clean sheets. I wanted to do these things because my husband was right—I miss that special time I had, sitting there in the quiet darkness with my baby, rocking him as he drank milk and fell back to sleep. But there’s more than just the quiet dark hours of baby waking at night.
Am I Really Going to Miss This?
As I write this, we are now getting ready to potty train our son. My husband jokes with me about how much I am going to miss changing his diapers. I have a difficult time picturing that. On the other hand, I love the interactions and verbal exchanges I have with him when I put him on the changing table to clean him up. I wonder if this will be yet another thing I will be missing about the baby stage.
What are the things you’re missing about the baby stage that you never would have ever imagined missing?
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Love reading your blog! So heartwarming 💕