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Toddler & Newborn

Hey mamas I feel like I’m over thinking this because my husband has been home for so long but he goes back to work in 2 weeks. He’s been off because his job gives him a “baby leave” for 6-8 weeks. When he goes back I’ll have our son as always and our daughter and idk how I’m gonna do it without him. I feel like I’m just over thinking it because he’s been here and he’s been helping this whole time and I’ll be doing the same things with our toddler like playing but then making sure she is okay and he isn’t too wild with her

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my bf was home for 2 weeks before going back to work and i have a 25m old daughter and a 4w old son. I am not going to lie it has been hard getting into a routine that fits both my children but it wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be! i have a bin full of “busy/quiet” toys for when im feeding, so my daughter has something to entertain her. i only give her these things while im feeding in hopes it will show her she needs to entertain herself for a bit. other than that ive spent lots of time matching his feedings/naps up with time to take my daughter for a walk to the park and little things like that

Omg same here I have my 2 year old daughter who is like the energizer bunny then my 4 week old son and my husband goes back to work soon and I’m on my own with both of them 😱

My partner was off for 8 weeks when we had our second in November so it was a bit of an adjustment for sure. We have had some different periods with my toddler adjusting but overall it’s not been as bad as I feared and you into a routine pretty quickly. There’s been a lot of trial and error with what sort of outing is more manageable with the both of them, but I started small just going to the local park and building up to going to the odd class from there. I’d say after a couple of weeks I found it much more manageable! Nap times I try and time being out in the pram or car before hand so I can usually count on the baby being asleep still whilst I’m putting the toddler to bed, but if the baby is awake she just comes in with us and likes to look star projector lamp we have for the toddler so that’s quite handy. Definitely having an activity basket with some novelty toys that you use just for when you’re feeding baby is helpful.

Finding opportunities for 1-1 time with the toddler when my partner was around to take the baby, made a huge difference. Lots of praise when the eldest one does something nice with / for the baby and trying to avoid saying things like we can’t do this because of the baby or you need to wait because I’m doing x with the baby also helped. The baby has really had to fit in around the toddler though 😅

@Diane that’s the same with my son omg energy all the time lol

Honestly you think you can't do it, but you can and you just get yourself into a routine, my toddler normally wakes up at about 8, so I wake up at 7 to feed baby and get her back to sleep so I'm ready to go when toddler is up and I can get him up, washed, dressed and breakfast 😊