article_snippet.sent: For example, as she is only ten months old, Poppy’s cot is in our bedroom.
article_snippet.sent: Then there’s the feeding, the nappy changing, the crying in the night and the wearying lack of sleep.
article_snippet.sent: The sheer physical effort of coping with children at this age can be demanding.
article_snippet.sent: Donald (pictured with Ben and Poppy) says the physical effort of coping with young children at Ben age can be demanding
article_snippet.sent: However, when you are in your 70s, levering yourself out of a deep armchair afterwards and transferring baby to cot without waking it is quite a physical achievement.
article_snippet.sent: My youngest grandchild is one-month-old.
article_snippet.sent: The biggest drawback with a baby at this age is the freedom this age steals.
article_snippet.sent: Even though you have been through it before, there are always anxieties with tiny babies.
article_snippet.sent: There is a sadder side to having tiny children at my age, in that I won’t live to see tiny children as adults, maybe not even in tiny children teens.
article_snippet.sent: I also have to face the fact that tiny children may hardly remember me at all in later life.
article_snippet.sent: For tiny children, too, there is the inevitable trauma of losing a parent while tiny children are young.