Pregnant again ?!?!!!

i am pregnant again, 28 weeks with a 10 month old 🙈 i was so shocked aswell but once i got my head around it i was fine!! x

My September baby was my second, and I had 17m between my 2! Honestly no where near as bad as people say 😂 routine is key but the second will merge into the firsts because they basically don't have a choice 😂

@Charlotte what's it like being pregnant whilst having a baby to run around after and constantly pick up all the time ? 🤔😭 @Bobbie Wilson what was the financial side of the situation like? I'm really worried, as we are struggling with this one, can't imagine what we'll be like with a second 😵

Id be scared

Honestly mat leave was tough but second one is so much cheaper! They have hand me downs so you don't end up buying everything again, they eat the same stuff as the older one so that's not drastic and you're already buying wet wipes ect, my first cost money, my second doesn't really!

I had my first 2 kids close in age, only 19 months between them and it was the best thing I ever done. Second one is a walk in the park hahaha

There's 21 months between my toddler and my September baby so wasn't in the 2 under 2 club for long but its actually turned out amazing. It was hard at first especially as my boys naps were mega shit but honestly they love each other so much. I cant wait till they can play together properly. The fear of life with 2 was far worse than the reality. September baby wasnt planned and i found out not long after losing my mum, it was such an emotional time but the kids have really helped me through my darkest days. Also as Bobbie mentioned, the 2nd one is cheaper! I had a girl first so didnt have much in the way of clothes I could reuse but i was given lots of amazing 2nd hand stuff from a lady at my toddler group. When you go along pregnant heaps of folk start offering you they're baby clothes lol 👌😂

A year between mine My first was born September 2022, second came along September 2023. Pregnancy was definitely a lot more tiring as I didn't have the time to nap or relax as much as I did the first time however I did find I was a lot less stressed about things like labour, weaning etc because I already knew what to expect. And other than getting her some girly clothes (my first was a boy) another cot and a double pram, I didn't have to get much things as I already had all my boys stuff still and a lot of it she can use.The first few weeks were hard, and super tiring especially when my eldest started struggling with sleep due to teething, (it's literally just me, my partner and the kids, so we have zero help, so for a good bit we were running on empty) however that said it's amazing watching them interact and see their bond developing, my little girls turned 9 months and has been walking for 2 months, all because she's trying to keep up with her big brother. It's hard but 100% worth it

Thank you for all your responses, this makes me feel a lot better! We are currently in a deep dive in our finances seeing how we can make this work🫣 Another question though, bedrooms? We have a 2 bed house, first is a boy, what do we do if this next one is a girl ? I grew up as 3 girls so sharing a room was easy, but no clue with opposite sexes 🫣

So I've a boy and a girl, we rent through a housing association and we only qualify for a 2 bedroom. They say same sex can share until 16, while the opposite sex can share until 10.

@Danni we are in housing association as well, apparently when they get to age 10 we will have to go on a transfers list, but that gets passed to the council, who would then say we are still ok because the council class the living room/lounge as a room someone can sleep in🙄 so we would never get moved! I would have to rent privately or buy my own house, and I'm definitely not in that position as we speak, who knows in 10 years time though 🫣🤷🏻‍♀️

We were in a top 1 bedroom flat with no lift until our son was 8 months 🤦🏼‍♀️so it can take some time, our HV did offer to write to our previous housing as I was struggling to make it up the close stairs. Maybe they could write to the council if that was to happen to you. Thankfully our rooms now are spacey that I don't think them sharing will be too much of an issue (plus bunk beds are always an option when they're bigger) and they are extremely close age and relationships wise I don't see them being too bothered about sharing for a good while