Mum guilt

Aww hun I know exactly what you mean, 28weeks pregnant and my son turned 1 last week and the guilt is next level especially as he’s going through his most clingy phase 😩 he literally won’t let me out of his sight and I just can’t see how I’m gonna successfully juggle 2 without him feeling abandoned for someone new 💔
I keep telling myself in the long run he won’t know any different but that makes me sad too, I love our 1on1 time together, I’m really gonna miss it xx

Awhh bless. I hear you too. I'm 21 weeks and I feel like my 1 year old has realised I've stopped picking him up as much and I cuddle him differently. He goes to his dad more and become clingier with him too... I feel guilty already it's sad...

I’m 25 weeks and if I’m honest I don’t have much guilt. My daughter will never know any difference. I think it’ll be harder if there was a big age gap as she’d know and remember what it’s like to get our whole attention. Having a small age gap means she won’t ever remember what being an only child is like. I am lucky my daughter plays well by herself and we encourage that as much as we can but in a few years she’ll hopefully have the best bond with her little sister and I know we’d of done the right thing x

I’m 20 weeks with my second and although I do feel guilty and sad that my little boy won’t have my full attention anymore, I also feel a bit guilty and sad that my second never will have had that! Then I just remember that they are going to grow up so close in age, playing together and will hopefully be the best of friends, then I feel better 🥰

My SIL has Irish twins (10 months apart) both boys. They are a little twosome. And honestly they won’t know any different, they’ll have always had each other.
My mums friend had an only child (conceived when she was young with her first husband) and then years later when she decided to have kids with her new husband she was determined to have 2 and have a small age gap so they grew up together and she said it was the best thing she did.