Do you remember that moment when you say goodbye to your child to give birth to another baby? I do, and I remember it as a roller coaster of emotions. It is a very special moment in which you know that the next time you see it, it will no longer be your little one, that in a few hours, or minutes, there will be another that occupies that place.
Because a photo is worth a thousand words, precisely because of all the feelings that it summarizes in an image, it has gone viral emotional picture of a mother hugging her daughter before welcoming a new baby, captured by birth photographer Laura Paulescu of Crowned Photography.
Goodbye to the eldest son
The photographer froze that moment just before the mother gave birth to her third daughter. The last hug to her little girl and the last time she sat on her belly with her sister inside.
In Babies and more When you feel guilty with your second pregnancy because you will no longer be exclusively for your first childThe arrival of a new brother is an event that not all children receive in the same way, of course, especially if he is the older brother who does not want to be dethroned. With a new baby, family dynamics change and for some children it can be a very delicate trance in their life. The family changes and evolves with each new member.
But for parents, and in this case for the mother, the arrival of a new baby also means a before and after: nothing will ever be the same again. Especially, that key moment in which the eldest son ceases to be an only child. It is a mixture of joy and enthusiasm for the arrival of another child, but also of guilt (at least I have felt it) and concern for what is coming.
I think that in the most intimate all mothers feel at some point guilty of dethroning the eldest son. It has happened to me. When the second was born, I had a thousand doubts about my way of loving her. You cling to your first love and wonder if you can love both children as you love the first. It's something that I didn't question with the third. Because I checked that yes, you can. Love is not divided, nor distributed by percentages. The love for children multiplies.
And you, how do you remember that moment when you fired your son before giving birth to your next baby?
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