Second time mums - How are you preparing?

Following but my little boy will be 21 months old and he doesn’t understand he’s getting a sister. I was debating putting all the new baby bits up for him beforehand so he can get use to them

Same boat here. My little boy will turn 2 just after little girl arrives and I'm nervous. So far we are just trying to refer to baby as much as possible and show him to be gentle so he gets some understanding but don't know how he's going to react as he's super clingy especially in the past few weeks I've had some booked mentioned to me about preparing them but I can't remember what they are called 🙈

We have a 4 year old and have been talking about his baby brother and everything they will get to do together, we started getting my son gifts from the baby for birthday and Christmas and we’re giving him the job of picking his baby brothers comforter, my son is still very attached to his of a zebra so he’s deciding the animal that baby brother will get instead 🥰 We’re also planning the first meeting to just be the 4 of us with no one else around, and when they do meet it’s on my sons terms and I won’t be holding the baby and make sure my attention is on my first born and making sure he’s comfortable and feeling included x

My little boy will be 17 months when baby arrives so all he understands is "mammy has a baby in her belly" 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I'm planning on putting everything out (cot, baby chair, etc) so he can get used to the items being out and not being for him. Not sure what else to do, so taking advice from all these comments, thanks everyone 😆🥰

Our little boy turned three in December and we talk about his sister a lot but even so I dont think he realises there will be an actual human being arriving soon 😅 he's obsessed with paw patrol at the moment so I thought about getting him a gift from his sister when she arrives. Also introducing them just the four of us and letting him take the lead in terms of his interaction with her

Thank you all for these suggestions! My little boy loves books, so I’ve just ordered a book called ‘we’re having a baby’ from Amazon to start reading. I’m also putting a little ‘big brother’ present basket together from the baby. Not much just a new book, tonie and some small bits.

my boy just turned 4 and initially he was very nervous about the news. but below helped him a lot, now he is excited to meet lil sister -We showed him his baby pictures, told stories about his birth, how cute he was as a baby etc. how we love him and always will. -we walked him through birth process and plan, took him to the hospital and showed him around. explained him hospital stay, why mum and baby will need help after birth,and he will need to stay with grandma until mummy is back from hospital -he helped us organize babies room. washing/sorting clothes, carrying thing around, cleaning the room -we educated him on babies. like babies cannot eat food, they are very fragile, they cry a lot etc, they cannot speak etc - we also explained him why baby need to stay in a crib in mum/dads room for few months.

Shitting myself! I’ll have a 16/17 month old 😅😅I have no plan at all just to wing it and hope for the best x

My little boy will be 18 months when his new brother arrives. We've told his nursery that he's getting a baby brother and they are doing lots of baby activities with him like pushing a little pram around and things like that 🧡 We've also got a few books about new babies and are talking to him about his new baby brother. We've got a baby boy doll with its own moses basket that we'll give him soon so that when baby arrives he has his own baby to look after and can copy what we are doing with the baby.

My little boy is 12 months and will be 14 months at birth of sister so it’s still so early to understand. We got him a dolly with a carrier to play with which has a magnetic dummy and bottle and he’s been feeding it and sharing dummies. We practice the word baby 👶🏼 which he can now say if in point to my belly which might be confusing when she’s born 😂