How do I come to terms with my last baby entering toddlerhood?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode I talk with Kelsey and answer the question, “How do I come to terms with my last baby entering toddlerhood?” She is feeling a sense of loss as her third child leaves the baby stage behind. Instead she wants to be able to feel more joy as her child grows and develops.I tell Kelsey that the emotions she is experiencing are totally normal, especially for women who had difficult or complicated births and recoveries like she did. It’s common for there to be a sense of loss because ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.0	I'm so excited to welcome Kelsey to the podcast today.
0:49.0	Hi, Kelsey.
0:50.4	Hi.
0:51.2	Thanks so much for being here.
0:53.5	Thank you for having me.
0:55.1	What is your question for me today?
0:57.9	My question is, how do I come to terms with my last baby entering toddlerhood?
1:05.9	I have three kids, and my youngest is just turning 18 months.
1:11.9	So he's starting to hit those milestones where it's like, he's not a baby anymore.
1:15.9	Yeah.
1:16.8	So I'm leaving that phase of my life, that childbearing phase of my life.
1:21.1	And I feel like I'm like a little extra sad about it.
1:25.5	Like I want to have more joy with the milestones than I am having.
1:29.8	Yeah. Yeah. So tell me like as your your youngest is getting older, you're not able to celebrate the
1:37.3	milestones because of the sadness that you're feeling. A little bit. Yeah. I mean, I still have like
1:42.3	joy for him. But I feel like there's more sadness there than I want to have.
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