Guilt

I feel this a bit. My daughter was Born January 2nd of 2025. I'm due December 23rd 2026. Which I know there is a whole week between them but with Christmas and New years in between their birthdays it is making me a bit stressed out. Try to breathe though. It is okay if your oldest has a wonderful relationship with their dad. It gives you room to relax and breathe during this pregnancy. Give yourself some grace honey. ❤️ My mom told me that when I had my daughter. I felt I wasn't good enough for my son who is Autistic non-verbal. But for one kids are more resilient then we think and we should give ourselves time to calm down and relax as hard working mommies. ❤️ Try not to guilt yourself. You are enough.

My kid’s birthdays are three days apart. The oldest was 3 when her little brother was born. It’s fine they don’t care, I doubt yours will either. Take a deep breath and remember it’s all hormones. We just do one birthday party one weekend and one the next. Kids don’t care as long as they get cake. You got this.

I felt the same way for the longest time I was determined to make sure my daughter had your special second birthday on the right weekend (April 12) even though we had my 3rd on March 22 and also plan/hosted a baby shower right after the birth. I had to postpone and it was fine. Its actually how our birthday tradition started. I always host fun themed parties and invite lots of people but since we were postpone we decided to do dinner and dessert on her actually birthday. But how do you ask a 2yr what she wants for a special birthday dinner. At the timw she was always saying "I eat cereal" so that what we had for dinner and for evwry kid birthday since. Cereal and their choice of dessert.