What a weekend
This past weekend was very interesting.
Good friends of ours had wanted to go out of town for the weekend and I offered to babysit their two kiddos and their dog. One is a boy (9) and the other is a girl (4 1/2 months). I really didn't mind doing it, but I have to admit having two babies is HARD WORK!!
First of all, the baby, doesn't sleep through the night and doesn't like to sleep too much during the day. She likes a lot of attention and likes to be held. I didn't think Alyssa would be the jealous type, but I was wrong! A few different times I had to give the baby my attention (crying, feeding ect) and Alyssa would cry big crocodile tears until I was able to put the baby down and pick her up. That was very rough.
I have got it too easy now. Alyssa has slept through the night since she was 3 months old. I could lay her down awake and she wouldn't scream. She would (and still does) sleep until 8 or 9 in the morning! Well, this baby, is NOT like that!!
The boy helped out ALOT. He took the dog out whenever I asked him to. He played with Alyssa and picked up messes. He didn't bother me too much asking for stuff.
Gary and I have been discussing having another baby lately. Well, after this weekend, I told Gary that I didn't know if I was ready for this. I mean Alyssa and the baby were on separate schedules. They hardly slept at the same time and I almost forgot how much attention that small babies need compared to my one year old. It was so hard to get on the floor to spend time with Alyssa because so much time was consumed with the baby and I felt horrible. I felt horrible that I couldn't give Alyssa 100% of my attention like she is used to, (and I am used to).
How do you moms of more than one do it??
posted by Linda @ 9:31 PM
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3 Comments:
I only have one child right now, as well, so I couldn't imagine having to juggle 2! I've been told that there's a huuuge difference between having 1 and 2, but after that, it's all about the same! My grandma had 13....how she did that, I'll never know :)
oh lord, now you've gone done and scared me. How am I going to handle two? We'll find out in about 5 weeks. AGH!!!!!!!
BTW: kidding, I was scared before your post.
We've been thinking about this, too. Our plan is to have our kids 1.5-2 years apart. I know it will be a lot of work, but I think having a second child will be work no matter how old my other child is. You just won't be able to give 100% to the other anymore.
But that second baby will never get 100% because you'll always have another one. They don't get the chance to be the only one.
Its a lot to think about and grapple with. Two of the blogs I read just had second babies and they seem to be doing well.
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