Baby fever
A friend of ours has just had her second baby and one of my best friends is having her first in just ten short weeks.
It has really hit home that we no longer have a baby, but a boy.
They are (or soon will be) grappling with breastfeeding, night waking, dummies, swaddling, tummy time, bottles, sterilising and wondersuits. It seems like a million years since we even thought about all of that, and it brings into sharp focus what we'll have to encounter again if we have another child.
It's true that the next time I won't have to agonise over every little detail. I now know that whether or not to rock a baby isn't a life or death decision.
Am I ready for all that again? Certainly not yet. Even if Ari is pointing out babies left, right and centre. He even pointed them out to me in a Toys R Us catalogue today. Talk about pressure!
posted by Carla Danaher @ 1:41 pm
1 Comments:
Carla,
Congratulations with Ari, he sounds like a real little man. They grow up so quick, don't they.
It's amazing how much your brain lets you forget when you have a second child. Grace now has a 5 month old brother, Lachlan and whenever he presents a challenge, we say that "we don't remember Grace doing this", but then something reminds us that we have been through this before.
Good luck with it all,
Regards,
David Van Der Hoeven
(davevdh73@hotmail.com)
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