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I Can’t Wait Until My Daughter is Older — But, I Don’t Want Her to Grow Up
Navigating the balance between wanting to speed up time, and also slow it down in the midst of parenting
After I gave birth to my daughter, I was utterly overwhelmed and had undergone my fair share of postpartum depression. At the same time, I was receiving nonstop parenting advice from family and friends on how I should raise her — all of the little hacks I should try and the things I should avoid doing when it came to caring for her.
Truth be told, I often took other peoples’ advice with a grain of salt, however, there were always a few helpful nuggets of advice that I found comfort in and still appreciate to this day. Among those helpful nuggets of advice, the thing that truly stuck with me the most was to cherish every single moment because it goes by much faster than you think.
As of recently, this has become abundantly more clear now that she’s approaching the age of two and recently started daycare.
Eighteen months in, I do sometimes still feel like I’m in the trenches of early parenting days. Despite the fact that I’ve learned a great deal about motherhood and parenting and I’m drastically more well-adjusted as the months have gone by, there are still those very hard…