I got to sleep in until 8:30. He usually wakes me at 7, which almost balances out what he caused me to lose. The only bit left really is the moral irritability left over from being kept up by that stupid music.
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it wasn't like screaming woman but more like big cat noise. Like bobcat screaming.
Tatering irritating since we could do nothing but hope it stopped.
Tilly went back to sleep. In the one place no one will mess with......My rocker.
I guess I get the kitchen chair as there are sleeping dogs on every other sitting surface. 
I'd talked to Kyra about it, showed her pictures of when she was a baby, and read books about having a new baby... I have the most delightful photo of her sitting w/ me in the hospital bed confused as all heck about what just happened... it didn't help that she'd fallen asleep in the waiting room while her sister was being born so she basically woke up to a new sister. She knew what a baby was.. my nephews are 9 & 12 months younger than her, but I don't think she really understood what was going to happen. She was fine w/ the baby though.. no resentment or anything that I remember.
I bitterly resented my younger siblings. At 17-18 months, I asked my mom "When is the baby going back?" When my brother started crawling, my mom heard a crash and my brother crying. She went to the steps, saw me 3-4 steps up and my brother on the landing. I said he fell. A few days later, found me half way up the steps above him with my foot on his head. When my middle sister came along, she was a VERY NEEDY baby, I was 5ish, and I really resented how much she took my mom away from me. Because I disliked her so much I would torment her until she was old enough to tell on me. I was not a nice big sister when I was younger.
That just makes you understand the importance of making sure both kids get their time w/ you. When I was nursing the little one I'd have the big one bring me some books to read to her. We'd sit watch tv together while the baby was napping or we'd play a little before Kyra's nap, & we still kept our night time routine. I think it helped her not feel so replaced. But, I always worked, so Kyra was used to not having me around & I always did all the housework, so she was used to entertaining herself while I was busy. Karissa was needy too, but it was mostly in the middle of the night that she'd wake up crying & I'd have to drive her around for hours til she fell back asleep. I'd have to get Kyra out of bed b/c I was alone, but she didn't mind.. she slept through it most of the time. She probably liked the rides too. lol
Once you get into the new house you can make some changes to your current routine to accomodate the future arrival & having your family close will also help keep from him from resenting the baby.
Once you get into the new house you can make some changes to your current routine to accomodate the future arrival & having your family close will also help keep from him from resenting the baby.
apparently Pat has competition
My baby brother was 3 yrs. younger than me. Of course when he came home from the hospital some relatives brought him a beautiful stuffed black Scottie dog. That didn't sit well with me - they didn't bring me anything. I ended up 'trading' him a dilapidated
stuffed Black lamb with a dislocated leg. Nobody even noticed. I got away with it CLEAN!!
stuffed Black lamb with a dislocated leg. Nobody even noticed. I got away with it CLEAN!!
I always think it's kinda of bad form to bring gifts for a new baby, then not even bring the other kid(s) some kind of novelty gift, like a cookie or small toy. I know people have that whole 'it's not about them' thing, but it IS about them.. getting a new sibling is a big deal & they should get to celebrate their new role too.
This X a billion!
My own mother would lavish gifts on my daughter (the older of my kids) and completely ignore my son's birthday/christmas/Easter etc.
When my daughter turned 4 and my mother brought her a bunch of gifts and nothing had been done for my son just 2 months earlier.....
My daughter said... "You are a mean grandma. You made my bubba cry. You can leave and never come back."
I will never forget that. It was heartbreaking for my son.
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