Mums with about a 2y3m age gap, which stage was the toughest for you?

Following as I’m in a similar situation and my second baby now is 2m old. So far it’s pretty hard. The toddler girl is jealous a lot, now she is getting wild and loud and disturbs the baby to nap and she is dropping her nap too 😓😥

Toddler getting used to the baby and being too handsy is the hardest...it seems to be getting easier and no doubt soon baby will be hitting back!

I’m going through such a terrible time right now. My baby is 15 weeks old and I constantly feel like I’m not giving enough to either of them. My whole day is just endless rocking and settling, and I can barely spend any proper time with my toddler. The guilt is eating me up all the time. I feel like all I can manage is feeding them and getting them to nap it’s awful. And meanwhile my toddler is struggling to adjust, and it hurts so much to see that. When will it get better?

My daughter was 2y5m when baby was born and the hardest stage for me was 0-3m.

The breastfeeding cycle overtook my schedule to the point where my toddler was bored of baby and jealous. If I just got baby to sleep, toddler wanted to play and would wake him. I felt like I was always telling her off. Everytime I was up, dressed and ready to take her outside or go somewhere the baby would start and it really got to me. I felt that I wasn’t being a mum to my toddler, I was just all about baby, tired from baby, baby always on me.

It got way better after 6m though!