Anyone else with a toddler miss their baby?

I feel so bad for feeling this way because I do love my toddler more than anything. But I can’t help but miss my baby. The one that always smiled at me whilst nursing. The one that giggled at almost everything I did, never had tantrums, never hit/ kicked screamed for the smallest things. The long coffee mornings where he sat babbling and giggling with me in his pram. The gummy smile, the clapping hands and rolling around the floor. I miss it all! Please tell me this feeling goes away!

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Oh guilty here!! I spend so much time watching videos and photos when he was little and he is only 10 months old now 🤣😂😭

Worried this is going to be me. I’m clinging to every small moment with my son (he’s almost 6 months).

I don’t think it goes away, I think looking back, we’ll always miss a certain stage of our babies’ lives. I’ve actually really come to enjoy my toddler (3y 2m) now more than his baby phase I think. I enjoy that we can have conversations and he can delight me in all the different ways he sees the world. Last Saturday, we went to a coffee shop for a treat and got some smoothies and muffins and sat by the window. He told me about the best parts of his week at day-school (recess) and how “u” and “n” are actually the same letter turned upside down. He is learning about planets and he filled me in on the beef between the dwarf planets Makemake and Pluto 😂. We counted cars and kept a tally of all the different colors (white won) and commented on all the different types of doggies that passed by our window. We spent 1 hour chatting and it was such a precious moment in time. And as much as I miss baby him, this was equally as good 🥰

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