I am bereft! It is slowly dawning on me that in a matter of weeks, my baby will be starting school. Ok, officially she is not a baby - she is 4 and officially she has been attending full time nursery since last year, and I actually have been through this already with my older two. But the fact of the matter is..... I am bereft! Where has my baby gone? It does not seem 5 minutes ago that she was a tiny newborn who was dependent on me for everything and now she will be going off to school where somebody else will have the pleasure of seeing her facial expressions when she is enjoying something, or seeing how animated she becomes when chatting to her friends or even, dare I say it, have to coax her to do something when she has most determindly set her mind against it!
I think my feelings of bereftness have a lot to do with the fact that this part of my life is now over. The baby days are well and truly gone and I am onto the next chapter of my life. I have no intention of having any more (I have done my bit for the continuation of the human race) but I am sad that my babies are slowly becoming young children (teenagedom is already manifesting itself in my 6 year olds!)
I want to tell all the pregnant couples I teach through my Natal Hypnotherapy classes and the new mums and dads we see at The Holistic Parent to really treasure the early days because even though they may seem they are lasting forever at the time, they really are all over in the blink of an eye - mine being slightly teary at the mo as I contemplate the newly named school uniform and sigh at the thought that she really is no longer a baby.....
Dani Diosi 23/08/09
Natal Hypnotherapist
Co-founder of 'The Holistic Parent'
Twin Specialist
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You'd better get working on another one then.
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