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I am the opposite, my first baby was and still is a nightmare. He is well into the terrible 2's and he is such a handful even without a newborn. Today I was alone with the newborn and the toddler for an hour and it was absolute chaos. The baby needed breastfeeding but every time I picked her up I had to quickly put her down to stop him doing something. I felt so stressed when my husband got back and I have no idea how I am going to cope next week when he goes back to work. I've only done an hour alone so far and Monday he will be out of the house for 11 hours 😩 Send HELP 😐
Totally feel the same, my LO is 3 and a half with a 1 week old. As you say we had a lovely routine going with regular trips to the zoo and now I'm worried how long it'll take us to get back to that point. My 3 year is definitely feeling the change in the house which made me so sad for her. But looking back with my first everything was just a phase so hopefully we will blink and the second will slot in and be back to a lovely routine as a family of 4 x
I feel exactly the same as you.
I could have written this myself, so you are definitely not alone. I find myself comparing my newborn to my daughter who was a really easy baby, so my expectations are so high which is so unfair for both my new baby and me. I keep reminding myself that’s she’s only two weeks old and I need to be kinder to myself. She’s a newborn. The nights are going to be hard etc. I also feel a guilt. I could give my daughter all the time when she was a newborn but with my baby now I can’t, and she just will need to fit in. Our worlds have definitely been turned upside down again and it will take time to feel like we have everything under control again and thriving, it’s just hard to see that right now. We will get there x