Scared as the day gets closer...

[Mum&bubs]

Lately Summer has been playing up for me really bad, she isnt sleeping at night & i feel like im going to do my head in with the lack of sleep & dealing with her constant tantrums :banghead: But lately ive been thinking about 'what is it going to be like when Taliyah gets here'. Summer was a really good girl when i fell pregnant so i just assumed it would be like that - easy. Now im thinking otherwise. So how do you parents out there with a toddler and a new born cope? I know everyone is different but as my due date gets closer & Summers tantrums get worse...I am getting more frightened the thought of having two children :confused:

[~EmsMum~]

:hugs: for you hunny
you will be fine :D

[uptheduff]

:hugs: I'm feeling the same way as you right now Mum&bub. I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old, and am due with number 3 in 7 weeks! DS1 was still really great when DS2 was born, but now he's going through tantrums. He doesn't speak either, so he gets extremely frustrated! DS2 is a good boy, but he's very very clingy, so i'm worried he will be very jealous and upset when this baby comes.

I'm confident we'll all cope though! Sure, it's going to be tough to begin with, but i bet it gets easier! :hugs:

[Funkychicken]

Hi Krissy, it can be scary imagining life with two, especially when you look back at what it was like when number 1 arrived. But the arrival of a second baby is quite different. Our DS was 26 months old when DD arrived and I was so smitten at being a mum to TWO that I guess I just went with the flow. The fulfullment I felt at being a mum twice was amazing. Going out with a toddler and a baby was so lovely-I used to have this big silly grin on my face all the time.
I spent quite a bit of time (I was pretty anal:o ) preparing DS but I didn't really start talking to him about it until I was about 5-6 months. I had a great book about a new baby that I used to read to him and I would drop comments close to the birth, and after, about what a lucky little sister Ella was for having him as a big brother. She was a fairly placid baby so I probably spent more time with DS than with her in the early days. I also co-clept with her as DS had most of my day-time attention, so I gave my night time attention to DD.
Time flies much quicker with the second and you find that you don't get hung up as much about the little incidental things. I used to say to myself, women have coped with mutiple children for eons, surely I can do this!:D