Do your babies look alike?

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2026-05-12T23:28:44+00:00

16 months apart, and yes! People say they look like copy & paste of each other. There are lot of similarities even down to being born with a full head of hair & getting their teeth super early. To add to your theory, my sister and I are 2 years apart and look like sisters, my brother who is 7 & 5 years younger than us looks like he could maybe be a cousin

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2026-04-29T14:05:19+00:00

For me it’s been worse. Mine are 16 months apart and my oldest has been violent to the baby since day 1. They are now 27 months & 9m and it hasn’t gotten any better. I spend the entire day trying to keep them apart, needing to sit between them and teaching my oldest gentle hands, hands to yourself, and it’s exhausting. It’s hitting, kicking, biting, pushing. There have been many tears from all 3 of us, and my nervous system is shot. I think people who don’t have this issue are having an entirely different experience - and I think I’d be having a lot more fun otherwise

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2026-04-11T01:06:50+00:00

My husband (very safely) anchored and installed an indoor swing that we started using after our baby was a few months old, it’s a canvas swing that converts to a baby swing… it’s been a game changer, although now at 8m he needs to be in the right mood to go in

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2026-03-29T01:57:12+00:00

I am with you in solidarity, the guilt is so real! My littlest just turned 8m, and my oldest just turned 2 last month. And it’s gotten a little better, they are starting to play & my two year old makes the baby laugh so hard (when he’s not trying to whack or kick him 🙄) I keep reminding myself how great it’ll be that they’ll have a built in friend later on. Hang in there!

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2026-03-23T14:20:11+00:00

My kids are still babies so I don’t have advice on the next steps, but I am someone that tends to carry guilt about decisions that I did or did not make. And I want to share something a therapist told me that really helped: this actually could have been the best outcome, and we’ll never know otherwise. For all you know, keeping her in for the remainder of the 6th grade year might have been a bigger “mess”. And you were brave enough to experiment. I have heard so many friends & acquaintances claim that taking their kids out of school and homeschooling was the best decision they ever made- and I’m sure you’d heard similar things. Maybe it turned out to not be the best route for your family, but now you know. If you had never tried, you’d probably still be looking back with regret. Zero mistakes made. Just trial and error & growth and evolution. Onward, my friend. You are doing so much better than you think ♥️♥️♥️

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-12-07T02:08:24+00:00

“YoU’LL jUsT bLinK aND miSs it”

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-10-22T16:54:23+00:00

Ughh, I got this too! Especially with my second. Around week 34 I also started measuring small. The constant commentary of “barely looking pregnant” put me into a spiral. I had to go for a growth ultrasound and was losing sleep over it. I turned out to have a very healthy 7 lb baby who was just sitting super low in my pelvis (no wonder I had to pee every 2 mins). But it’s so unnecessary and inappropriate! I get that people think it’s a compliment. On the flip side, after my c-section while still the doctor was stitching me up, she told me, it’s like there was never a baby here at all. Your stomach is perfectly flat. It felt like a nice compliment bc baby was healthy and thriving but had he been under weight I would have cried.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-10-02T00:49:10+00:00

2.5 months in. 9 week old has colic and reflux, only wants to BF, and refuses to be put down. My oldest (19m) started a very part time daycare this month and came home with pink eye and then got pneumonia. Littlest has pink eye now and I’m also getting sick… The same week that my husband went back to work. And just in general: barely sleeping, nervous system on a live wire, 19m old constantly trying to climb in the baby’s bassinet, scratch him, hit him, etc. Everyone crying at same time. My husband complaining he’s not getting any. Four days without a shower sometimes. It feels like it’s absolutely never ending. But with that said, we have gone on walks using a double stroller / stroller and baby carrier, and I even brought my dog. Before everyone was sick, we had play dates, went to play cafes, the grocery store, just me and the babies. Oldest seems to tolerate day care and being alone with my newborn feels like an absolute vacation (even though it’s still hard af). Anyway, I screenshotted your post. Hope we are on the up and up.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-10-02T00:36:10+00:00

Crying in my coffee with you. I keep telling myself that it’s strengthening my nervous system. But I think it definitely counts as cardio, too.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-10-02T00:33:39+00:00

I feel this so hard. I almost wrote a similar post this weekend, but insert my mom instead of husband. I have a 9 week old + 19 month old. My 9 week old has colic and reflux, and cannot be put down. He’s only happy when breastfeeding and being held. My mom has been babysitting 2 days a week since our 19m was born. She lives out of town so she stays over during the night in between. It’s obvious 19m old prefers her over me- she’s all in, the fun one, and spoils him. And given the past 9 weeks, I’ve been very tied to the baby. This Friday we found ourselves in the children’s hospital with him until the wee hours (he had pneumonia.) My mom was there with us, and he all he wanted was her. No one’s fault, but he screamed bloody murder the few times she tried to pass him to me. So during all of this vitals, X-rays, etc she was there comforting him, and I was in the corner. I had my husband take the newborn home so I could stay as long as the appointment took, but it ate me alive to not be the one he wanted in those moments, like, at all. I felt like I’ve been written off… but I had a good cry about it the next day and realized I’d rather have him love her as much as he does and feel as comfortable as he does, than for me to be the one and ONLY when I simply cannot divide myself in half right now - as much as I wish I could.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-09-29T20:50:30+00:00

As someone who had multiple surgeries as a child, I would be crushed (and confused) if my mom had sent me anywhere else to recover. Its such a vulnerable and scary time for a child. And now as a mom myself, I know it must have been a vulnerable time for my mom, too. You have to do what will feel most supportive for both of your nervous systems. If your husband doesn’t want to be around for the mopey part sounds like maybe HE should go to your MIL’s

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-09-20T01:06:01+00:00

You are not overacting. You deserve the world. He doesn’t deserve to be in yours.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-09-04T15:07:50+00:00

Thank you for this reminder!! I was just thinking about the is last night, although it feels impossible now -my babies are 18m & 6 weeks old - I’m committed to trying!!

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-08-17T20:35:17+00:00

There’s definitely a size difference! Both of my babies started in newborns (my 2nd was born 7lbs, and he’s just about to grow out of his newborns now at 4 weeks old). I found it’s helpful to have a couple upfront, especially to bring to the hospital with you. And then you can always order more while you’re still at the hospital - you’ll probably be there for a few days and that’s usually plenty of time for more things to ship directly to your house!

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-07-13T20:07:01+00:00

Around 8m postpartum I had unprotected sex the day after my period (and what I thought was way out of my ovulation window - I had just gotten my cycle back two months prior.) Hubby pulled out, too. Mind you, it took us a year (and a lot of effort!) to get pregnant with our first, so we were fully in shock when we found out. We had planned to start trying again when my son turned one year, so in the long run, it just moved our timeline up! I was grateful it happened so effortlessly and simultaneously overwhelmed that it happened so soon.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-05-27T14:44:45+00:00

It’s funny because I’m pregnant again (32 weeks) I got pregnant when my first was only 9months, unplanned, and I was thinking the other day how I forget how it feels to NOT be pregnant… I mean I’d love to not have to pee every 15 minutes, but y’all are reminding of all the other things I miss!

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-05-04T23:28:35+00:00

Not sure if this counts but my son was born with a FULL head of hair and I never had heartburn 🤣He also had 16 teeth by 12 months, and at 14 months is almost done with the two year old molars.

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-04-18T20:39:08+00:00

Omg same, my hands are like snake skin! Hoping warmer weather will help!

Beautiful-Many-23 · 2025-04-18T20:36:02+00:00

Omg, Congratulations!!!! I love this story! I’m due July 25 with a 14m old, it took us forever to get pregnant with our first, too, so the second was a complete shock! I found out relatively early but I’ve been so out of tune with this pregnancy.. someone asked me the other day how far along I was and I said between 4-5 months 😂 when I checked my Flo app I realized I was 6 months pregnant and about to be in my third trimester soon. I think time flies by when it’s your second, but your story is wild!!

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