First time I was a mum I was pretty shaken by the reality of having a baby changing all my life around, but I had him, only him to take care of, and myself of course, but he was the most important little thing at that moment and I could be all his, all my attention belonged to him. It is already amazing to think of all the nights you spend up taking care of a newborn. When you wake up, daddy is off to work and you are left alone with a basket full of laundry, lunch to be made, house to be cleaned, a baby to be fed and put to sleep, etc etc etc (lots of etc's here mate!)
When you have your second child the challenges change. You are already full of skills of how to take care of that lil one, you don't have as many questions such as "why does he spit up so much?" "What is the perfect temperature of the water for a bath?" "What size of diapers to buy?" "Is the bottle super, 100% well sterilised?" - no, you just don't have those anymore, instead you have the challenge of doubling up yourself - pure mathematics! And believe me, you are able to!!! Helping your older one with homework while changing diapers or doing laundry while rocking your baby or even feeding yourself a sandwich while bathing the baby and having a chat with your older boy about King Henry the III who used to chop his wives' heads off when they had baby girls... Entirely possible! And if you have a sense of humor and stop a little second to observe the big picture you can even have some fun and laugh at how funny it might be - of course if you are not too exhausted and feel like killing the first person who asks you where the clean socks are.
Luca and Thomas have a gap of 8 years, so Luca is quite helpful at times. Today when I woke up with a massive migraine, he was really ready to help me and even offered to bring me something to eat. Even though, obviously, he still needs his exclusive share of mummy, and I try my very best to make sure he has it! I even jumped off a cliff on a massive zip wire for him last weekend (something I could swear I would never, ever do!) I wonder what are the challenges mummies have when the second baby arrives...
All and all... we can be super heroes, can't we? Thos thought makes me feel happy inside, because we can really do amazing things. It might be hard but when we look back it is so fascinating to think how possible it was and how strong we can be. Wow!
When you have your second child the challenges change. You are already full of skills of how to take care of that lil one, you don't have as many questions such as "why does he spit up so much?" "What is the perfect temperature of the water for a bath?" "What size of diapers to buy?" "Is the bottle super, 100% well sterilised?" - no, you just don't have those anymore, instead you have the challenge of doubling up yourself - pure mathematics! And believe me, you are able to!!! Helping your older one with homework while changing diapers or doing laundry while rocking your baby or even feeding yourself a sandwich while bathing the baby and having a chat with your older boy about King Henry the III who used to chop his wives' heads off when they had baby girls... Entirely possible! And if you have a sense of humor and stop a little second to observe the big picture you can even have some fun and laugh at how funny it might be - of course if you are not too exhausted and feel like killing the first person who asks you where the clean socks are.
Luca and Thomas have a gap of 8 years, so Luca is quite helpful at times. Today when I woke up with a massive migraine, he was really ready to help me and even offered to bring me something to eat. Even though, obviously, he still needs his exclusive share of mummy, and I try my very best to make sure he has it! I even jumped off a cliff on a massive zip wire for him last weekend (something I could swear I would never, ever do!) I wonder what are the challenges mummies have when the second baby arrives...
All and all... we can be super heroes, can't we? Thos thought makes me feel happy inside, because we can really do amazing things. It might be hard but when we look back it is so fascinating to think how possible it was and how strong we can be. Wow!
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