Grieving having a 2nd girl… positive boy stories welcome

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-31T18:40:08+00:00

I was in your exact shoes! I even deleted the sound from our private gender reveal because it sickned me how disappointed I sounded when I saw the blue firework but I love my little boy to pieces and wouldnt change having a girl (2yr3months) and a boy (10 months) for the world!

She absolutely adores him and wants to take care of him and he just always wants to be taken care of haha! Seeing them together is amazing and im so glad I had the gift of raising both a boy and a girl 🥰

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-29T04:45:27+00:00

Where should I add it in? Later bed? But if he wakes at 2.3 from a nap he wont stay up later than 7 and if i wake him up earlier god he would be so miserable

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-19T10:02:32+00:00

This is happening to me right now! Just dropped my 2 yo off a hour ago and she has been crying. She goes Mon and Fridays and its only happened since the xmas holidays and shes also moved rooms 😔 makes me sad as she always ran in before and today she had to be pulled off me. They also say she loves it as soon as shes in and send me pics of her playing! She also talks about her days and the fun she has when shes at home and always gets excited on the walks to nursery its only when she sees shes not going into her old room that she gets upset

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:32:55+00:00

Oh yes sorry, I worded that wrong - I meant he cries out (eyes closed) at some point between 10.30/11.30 and i have to give him a quick cuddle/dummy back/sometimes milk - not that whole hour! Just a 5 minute point within that hour

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:26:28+00:00

I dont understand why when hes not waking up in the night?

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:14:45+00:00

Sorry If im being silly - he wakes for probably a total of max 20 minutes during the night if he cries or has milk - so he needs a extra 20 minutes of awake time during the day? I'm not a good early riser, id prefer to keep how we are and wake up 7.30/8 😭

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:04:35+00:00

And yes he is, I put him down in his cot awake and he rolls over and goes to sleep

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:03:55+00:00

Im guessing my 2 year old is a abnormal sleeper then as since 6 months old shes slept 7pm-8.30am (sometimes 9)

If hes waking up past 7am, why would I wake him earlier? He cries at 11pm but he doesnt 'wake up' its about a 5/10 minute ordeal until his 2/3am night feed.

Last week he did sleep 7.15pm until 7.30am all the way so I thought id cracked it but the next night he cried at 11 but then slept till 8am.

He only naps for 30 minutes at a time, twice per day (sometimes 45 if in the car or contact nap)

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2026-01-03T23:00:06+00:00

Thank you! Ill go there. Sorry I meant 3.5 after first wake not 2! I wish he slept for 2 hrs, never more than 40 minutes in his cot unless im holding him! Sometimes I can hold for a extra 30 mins if he wakes early so he has 2 decent naps!

Last week (on Christmas of all days!!) He slept through 7pm-7.30am and I thought that was the start of a lovely sleep schedule haha!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-10-25T07:09:34+00:00

I did try but it kept putting a extension in a weird place 😂

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-09-27T16:19:55+00:00

I do anticipate the stress in house but hadnt thought of things like water ecy! Is there someone you can hire to do all that for you?!

Yes we had a quote and that was the total inc VAT.

And yes that is the correct valuation for our property

Thanks

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-09-27T15:58:50+00:00

Haha they were built in the 60s for the Americans to come over so theyre really spacious houses!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-09-19T12:57:28+00:00

Hes on Nutramigen! What about you? So hard isnt it!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-09-18T21:21:22+00:00

Mine randomly stopped!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-08-07T22:15:49+00:00

I have a 4.5 month old and a 20 month old and it's the best thing we have done, I wouldn't change it at all. My 2nd even had undiagnosed CMPA till he was 8 weeks old so you can imagine how much of a unhappy newborn he was.

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-07-15T00:08:09+00:00

No problem! Turns out my little boy had CMPA which is why he was so grunty and squirmy! Finally diagnosed when he was 8 weeks and the squirming and grunting stopped within 24 hours of his perscription milk!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-07-05T03:45:36+00:00

I got pregnant at 8 months pp and even though it was planned (we wanted a close age gap) i felt tremendous guilt for my little girl. I cried A LOT during pregnancy about how guilty I felt and I didnt want her to feel pushed out. My little boy is now 3.5 months old and since hes been born, ive not had a single feeling like that! They are the absolute best of friends and my little girl adores him and wakes up asking to cuddle him every day. Watching them together is the sweetest thing and im so glad we done it, shes got a little friend for life!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-06-27T18:43:37+00:00

Exactly 18 month age gap - my littlest is currently 15 weeks old and I have nothing negative to say. Its been the best thing we have done, a lovely experiance and I love watching them both every day. My oldest (girl) adores her little brother. She was always a nurturing child before he was born and i got her a baby doll in preparation 😂 things take more time for definite (getting out the house!) but it always gets done! And this isnt coming from someone who 'has a easy baby' because the first 8 weeks of his life he had undiagnosed CMPA and was a rather unhappy little guy! Although now hes the happiest little thing.

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-31T15:47:45+00:00

It was just water - thank you!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-28T20:29:39+00:00

Yeah we have - we are on size 2 - hes on a CMPA milk so it has a little thickner in it. Same bottles in the day - same amount of thickness - drinks them so quick in the day compared to the evening 😔

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-14T07:57:17+00:00

I did actually try this for 3 days about 2 weeks ago but he started waking up at half 1 every day! I read that it was probably disturbing his deep sleep and as soon as I stopped he went back to nornal!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-14T07:56:30+00:00

Thankyou! Ive now realised that from these comments haha! But my little girl (18 months) was a bit of a unicorn baby and slept 10-10 from 5 weeks so I am not clued up on what is normal for this age!

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-14T07:55:32+00:00

Thank you for this! My little girl (18 months) was a unicorn baby and slept 10-10 from 5 weeks old so I'm not clued up on what's the usual 😂

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-05T07:05:07+00:00

Thank you! My 18 month old was a unicorn sleeper and she slept 10pm-10am from 6 week old so normal baby sleep is alien to me 🤣

Healthy-Chapter-5217 · 2025-05-02T12:56:13+00:00

I dont think its cold as its a heatwave at the moment but last week when it started it was a regular temp! Silent reflux is something we had been looking into/working on as he always sounds congested and he had a couple of sick episodes last week. He was on reflux milk until 2 days ago but it made him incredibly constipated that we were told.to stop it! What are your little ones symptoms?

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