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re: Transition from one to two kids
Posted on 12/3/24 at 11:17 am to GeauxTigahs92
Posted on 12/3/24 at 11:17 am to GeauxTigahs92
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4 years apart so I’m hoping the bigger gap will help
four years is a good gap. it's still gonna be difficult, but not as bad as it would be if they were two years or less apart.
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Posted on 12/3/24 at 11:19 am to GeauxTigahs92
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Transition
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kids
Posted on 12/3/24 at 11:25 am to Bert Macklin FBI
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My kids are 7 and 4 and I have to tell my wife all the time that the younger one isn't the older one. My older one can be bargained with. You can reason with him and say hey, why don't you do this for me because this positive outcome will be the result. My younger child is a terrorist when it comes to what she wants. You can't negotiate with a terrorist. With her you have to draw a hard line in the sand and you can't back down. My wife constantly tries to negotiate with her and it never works.
My youngest is 3 and a half.
This is just a microcosm of ever day.
"I want to wear these shoes to school." Glittery high heels way too big for her.
"They're too big, the school doesn't allow those types of shoes."
"But I want to wear them."
Explain again.
And then she just says the same shite on repeat over and over until you lose your fricking mind.
Or I love when you're driving and they drop something and ask you to pick it up. I'm driving I can't we'll wreck. But I want you too...
It's driving me nuts. And then the sibling fighting. OMG STFU
Posted on 12/3/24 at 11:29 am to jchamil
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Not as big of a transition as it is going from 0 kids to 1 kid. Yes, they will be different, but the basics of keeping them alive, fed, cleaned, etc. is still the same, and you've already done that with your first.
Agreed. The most stressful stuff from 0-1 for us was feeling like we truly had no idea what to do, and you won't have that this time around.
We went from 1 to 3, you'll be fine, OP.
In my experience, the first 6 weeks or so are the "what have I done"/out of body experience weeks, after that you find your rhythms and while tiring/hard, it's fine so long as you're committed to the cause. Human beings are remarkable in how quickly we reset to new normals.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 12:11 pm to Pettifogger
One was hard because I was well rested and the world revolved around me and my wife. Two was pretty easy. We were already tired and we could go man to man. Three is chaos and a new level of tired. Its all fun though, and I don't regret any of it.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 7:07 am to thegreatboudini
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I'm 6 weeks in with my second kid, and have a 2yr-4mo old.
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It's a fricking nightmare right now.
It was similar for us. That 6-8 week period with a newborn where they just fricking cry and cry and cry(for us in the evenings mostly) and you're running on no sleep and your wife is hormonal af
Our girls were born exactly 2 years apart and a day.
It passes, they stop being as needy, your oldest gets more and more used to having a younger sibling and you settle into a routine more or less. Don't take anything your wife says/does right now personally as difficult as it can be.
I was happy just having one kid and our 2nd was an oops and on top of that was a bit of a tough baby. I resented that little shite for months. And now im wrapped around her finger at almost 3 years old and shes amazing.
Hang in there dad.
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