My baby is growing up, am I strange to feel this way?

[Beautitude]

So ds2 is 4 months old. He has done the rolling thing, is starting to sit and after that all we have is crawling and walking. I feel like he is growing up too fast! I want to freeze time and keep him just like this forever. Everyone tells me I'm crazy and shouldn't wish such things but I can't help it. I don't want him to grow up! He might be our last baby, I don't know if we will go back for number 3 (heart says yes, head says no) so I just want him to stay like he is but this fast man has other ideas! Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels like this!

[YoYo]

You are NOT alone!

DD is 8.5 months...she has started her warped attempt at crawling, got her first tooth, and is pulling herself up and trying to STAND! It's not fair! I want her to stay a baby. DS seemed to stay a baby for ages, but now he's a talking back threenager! It FLIES, and I, like you, am unsure about wanting to go back for #3. Even if I did...it would happen to them too!

SIGH

[Onelittleprincess]

My dd just turned 1. I am sad. I don't want her to get bigger. We are eventually going to have a second but still. I just want them to be little

[krystals]

was just thinking the same thing yesterday!!!! my LO has just started rolling, has started mumumumu nd bubububub and although I'm so, so proud, I look through the photos of when he was born and a wee little one and wonder where my little baby went!!!! Mr Independent!!!

[Party-of-five]

you are definitely not alone

[Jaycee]

Most definitely not alone, and more so I think it's completely normal.

Take as many pictures as you can as as much video footage as you can, as it just flies by way too quick

[Loula]

Most defintily not alone

But i do love all the chats we have had since he was a few weeks old

[Babyluv]

Oh my gosh my baby girl is 2 months and I already feel like this. I love how precious she is. DH keeps saying how he can't wait until she's walking but I don't want her to
I already see time flying and how quickly she is changing!

[MrsB26]

I could have written your post - i want to freeze time too!

[Shanti]

Yep, not alone!! My little girl just turned TWO! and is fast becoming independent and says to us "no mummy stop singing" LOL.....!! They grow up too fast

I am pregnant with #2 and even this pregnancy is going too fast..... *sigh*

[Von]

I think almost every mum feels this...My DD is in her 2nd year of school and my DS is at kinder now...I wish I could rewind time and have those baby moments over again

[grub17]

i considered stop feeding DS so he wouldn't grow up... didn't work! doh! You know waht tho, I've also been saying the same since about 4 months... and I'm still saying it... every stage is even more beautiful... he's 14 momths now I want to bottle him sans tantrums. i just try to soak it all up and cherish it!

so, no, not silly at all!!

[black_rose]

No! Ds is almost 6 months has two teeth, can roll and is saying mumma all too soon! Being my last I want it to go much slower.

[aussienic]

I completely understand where you are coming from.. I always want to freeze time but my DH reminds me of all the great firsts we have yet to come.

School, first loves, ect ect ect.. so many other things to look forward to and I tell ya it really does just get better and better..

The first time they grab you and pull you down for a huge sloppy kiss and the first I love you mummy is always a heart melting moment

Aww I feel all goooey now thinking back on those things..

[Roryrory]

Normal. I have said it before but I think the parent-child relationship is unique in that in other relationships, the longer you know someone the more you get to know them and the deeper/closer your love/relationship is. With children it cannot be this way. The whole universe is puling them away from us so that they can lead their own lives. But this is how it is meant to be. As Kahlil Gibram wrote:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Enjoy the bitter sweetness of being a parent