in Australia
Who looked after your first during your second's birth?
Hi mums,
My husband and I have decided to try for our second, and one question has been keeping me up at night: who looked after your first child during birth and delivery of your second if you have no family or close friends around?
My husband and I have recently moved to Australia, and we only have family overseas. We've met a few people, but no super close friends yet that we could ask to look after our 2 years old.
The only options I could think is either I go to the hospital without my husband, or we pray for baby to come during daycare hours 🤣
Obviously my husband would like to be there for second baby's birth.
I went through this too and all throughout the pregnancy was worried. We literally prayed for our second to be born in the day so that our first wouldn’t be sleeping elsewhere. A friend had him for a few hours and my second was born 5.30pm so my husband got the first before 8pm . It was extremely lucky. Keep building friendships so that you have somebody to watch the first, so that your husband can be there! The friend would have kept my first son over night but I didn’t want to do that since he had never been without us or stayed elsewhere before at night. If you’re in Melbourne let’s me friends as I was in the same boat!