When you get rid of the clothes that your children wore as babies, it causes you enormous nostalgia

Slowly I'm getting to the idea that there will be no more babies at home. I have managed to fulfill my dream of being a mother of a large family, and although if I could I would not have hesitated to have another baby a long time ago, I feel that we have now entered a new stage of life that we face with great enthusiasm.

However, I would lie if I said no it hurts to part with material things that for years have filled our home, such as cribs, strollers, hammocks or high chairs. But there is something that, above all, my heart shrinks in an irremediable pinch of nostalgia: my children's clothes when they were babies.

What to do with the baby things that you are not going to use again?

After the baby stage, many parents are raised sell all the childcare items they have at home. The majority are bulky objects, which take up a lot of space in the home and are difficult to "recycle," so second-hand sales are the fastest, most comfortable and easiest option.

When I was clear that there would be no more babies at home, I also opted for this option. And although I would have liked to keep everything until my brothers or a close friend have babies, the truth is that with three children I've come to accumulate so much fret, I find it difficult to find a place for everything.

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But I must admit that on more than one occasion it has been difficult for me to retain the tear when it comes to selling. And it is that during the buying and selling process It is inevitable to remember images of your baby rocking his hammock quietly, sleeping in his crib or walking happily in that cart that with great enthusiasm you bought months before giving birth.

But clothes have a different sentimental value

But even though, with more or less nostalgia, I have been detaching myself from all the childcare objects that invaded my house for years, I confess that I have been unable to do the same with his clothes.

Maybe for many they are nothing more than unusable clothing items stored in a plastic box, but every time I open it the memories begin to clump together, and the smell of mothballs mixes with the "baby essence" that I can still smell on my mind ... because that smell is never forgotten.

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I have dozens and dozens of boxes with baby clothes, and all the clothes that I keep have a great value for me:

  • his first posts,
  • those yarn sweaters that my grandmother knitted with such love,
  • those tiny bodys with the breasted discolored by the drool of their first teeth,
  • the first summer dresses I bought excited for my girl,
  • My son's favorite pants, worn out so much wear,
  • the funny cap that we bought from my baby in a summer market,
  • his first little shoes,
  • That shirt that my little one released on the day of his second birthday,
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I have friends who tell me that clothing is nothing more than something material that takes up unnecessary space in closets, and they have not hesitated to donate or sell it. Others have recommended giving me another life, making larger garments with it, blankets, cushions, stuffed animals, or even framing my favorite clothes in an emotional work of art.

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But when I see the tiny clothes that one day dressed the tiny little bodies of my three children, a nostalgia invades me so indescribable, that all I want is close my eyes and shake the garment between my hands, letting myself be carried away by the multitude of memories, images and sensations that make me relive ...

Are you also the nostalgic ones that you keep the baby clothes of your children? And if so, how long does the "pinch" in your heart last?

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