Second baby

Just found out I’m pregnant again it was very unexpected and not planned my first will be about 2 1/2 when they’re born any tips on getting ready for that transition or to help manage it after

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I just had my second baby 3 weeks ago. One thing i recommend is giving task to your husband now like bath time or little task like that. I honestly did most of it so when the newborn came home that was the biggest adjustment with my October baby because I had a c-section and wasn’t able to do much.
Also don’t be nervous my October baby adjusted super fast and it has been a great experience. He loves his baby sister.

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I’ve heard every advice under the sun I feel like. My baby is one month old now. And my other is 21 months. The one advice that I didn’t hear, but I really wish I had was that I’m already a mother and I will fall into it so easily. You already know what to do, you just don’t know it yet. You bounced back-and-forth between taking care of the two. One’s crying you pick it up the other one’s crying you pick that one up sometimes you hold two crying babies at once. There’s good moments like when you are all sitting in bed together, and the babies aren’t crying . There’s awful moments like when you can’t get your kids to sleep, when you have to cook food for your tot, but your newborn is crying . Sometimes I bring my newborn to the bathroom and make a makeshift bassinet with her blanket in the sink so that I can relax on the toilet in peace. You may feel guilty for the first bit, not being able to take care of them as efficiently as you used to be able to before you had your baby.

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But you don’t divide your love between your two children, which is what most people are worried about, somehow your love magically multiplies , expands , grows . Your kiddos might not like each other at first, but they will eventually. And just remember that you’ve done this once and you’ll do it again and crush it this time because you’ll be going a second time around. You already know the tips and tricks girl. You know how to take care of your 2 1/2 year-old and you know how to take care of a newborn. Piece of cake I promise. The trenches are rough, but you know as a mom that we are just literally superheroes,

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About to give birth in less than 4 weeks and my little one will be 22 months so will see how it goes

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Just found out I’m pregnant again it was very unexpected and not planned my first will be about 2 1/2 when they’re born any tips on getting ready for that transition or to help manage it after

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Grieving my labor experience
How can I heal and not be so hurt that this happened to me and also god.

Three months later, and I’m still grieving the day my daughter was born.

I went into preterm labor at just 34 weeks. My entire labor lasted about an hour. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. I begged for an epidural, but it took too long. I was even begging for a C-section because I couldn’t handle the pain anymore.

When my daughter was born, she wasn’t breathing. She had to be flown to a NICU two hours away, in another state. I was a first-time mom, and I had to spend the first two days of her life away from her. And never got to hold my baby in the hospital that day No mother should have to go through that.

There are things that still haunt me. I wasn’t told right away that her heart rate had dropped. I also wasn’t told that a vacuum had been used during delivery until hours later. Finding those things out afterward left me feeling shocked, confused, and like I had no voice during one of the most important moments of my life.

Now my baby has Grade III brain bleeds and HIE. Every single day I live with the fear of not knowing what her future will look like. She’s only 3 months old, and this waiting game is one of the hardest things I’ve ever experienced.

People tell me to be positive, and I try. But they don’t see the grief I carry every day. They don’t see the anger. They don’t see how traumatic her birth was or how deeply it changed me.

I love my daughter more than anything in this world, and I will fight for her every single day. But I also want people to know that birth trauma is real. The fear, the heartbreak, the guilt, the anger—they don’t just disappear because time passes.

Some days, I’m still trying to survive the day she was born. I feel like I have been stuck in the same day sense she has got here

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Due Date August 2nd

Well… I guess I graduated from this group a little early🥴 Little did I know, my “August baby” had other plans💕 She made her arrival July 25th and I still can’t believe she’s here. Labored at home for 12 hours thinking it was false labor, then got to the hospital and it was go time. She made my pregnancy so easy besides the aches and sciatic pain😭 I’d do it all over again🩷

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Baby no 2 !!!

Just found out im pregnant again, anyone else in the same position 🫣🫣

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When did you announce your 2nd pregnancy?

I have a 9mo old and am 6w pregnant with my second. They will have an ~18mo age gap. I have told a few close friends & family members, but I feel a little embarrassed to tell my coworkers and post on social media as this pregnancy wasn’t planned. Curious to hear when others announced their pregnancies.

Last pregnancy, I announced to some people as early as 10 weeks and posted on social media at the end of my first trimester. My baby turns 1 in early October so I was thinking to wait until Halloween to announce this pregnancy, but I will be well into my second trimester (21w) by then and doubt I can hide it for that long (surely I will be showing). I also don’t want the new baby announcement to take attention away from my baby’s first birthday.

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Nub theory?

Do you think this is raising? Nub theory group on fb think it is girlie but ChatGPT thinks it’s a boy haha! What’s your vote?

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