I relate to the article very much. My three oldest kids are grown up now and I have often thought to myself that I miss them being babies so much. And I've said to others, that time of your life when they need you may seem so long when you're in it, but trust me when I say it goes so fast, and it's such a small part of it in the scheme of things.

TFB, I assume the author is generically talking about the mindset of treating babies like they're an inconvenience. The examples she used were, I assume, just to highlight that point, because of course, she has no way of knowing the individual circumstances of the people she's talking about. It doesn't take away from her point though that the mindset does exist, maybe not for you or me, but definitely in society in general.