Any advice for bringing a newborn into the home? I have a 2 year old.?

Question

Just kind of wondering what to expect as far as how my 2 year old son might react to his new sister.

I can't wait, we will be bringing her home this thursday if all goes well, and it should.

thanx

Answer 1

The older one probably will be super jealous! My son was fine for the first two weeks, but once he realized the baby wasn't going anywhere, he changed BIG time. Its kind of hard at first, because you have less time to spend with your older one. But good luck, and just try to make special time for the two year old!

Answer 2

just introduce her and tell her look this is you liitle sister let her kiss her in  her forehead.and tell her they have the same looks.tell her how sweet they are...

Answer 3

Congratulations to you! No advice but best of luck! I am 42 weeks, 1 day pregnant with my little girl and my son is 14 months. I wasn't sure how he would handle it either but it is nothing I can change so I figure I will go with the flow and see how things go!  

Answer 4

I've done this twice now as i have 3 boys - 9, 5, 7 mth. each time we kept the older boy(s) involved by bringing to dr. appt., talking about the baby, helping with the name (so they believed), classes offered at the hospital for siblings is excellent, ummm, helping with babies room. great book is za za's baby brother.the other thing we did was try to disrupt the older child's life as little as possible keeping them important. by the time baby arrived all was good between siblings. good luck.

Answer 5

Just make sure he still gets lots of a love and attention from you. Congrats!!!

Answer 6

get him involved as possible, let him get you diapers and help with feeding (if nursing let him sit by you and baby, if bottle feeding let him "help" with the bottle)  Also, let him pick out some baby outfits.  Another good thing is buy his favorite thing and give it to him when you bring home the baby and tell him it is a present from his baby.  Mine are 2 months shy of being 3 years apart and yes my oldest went through an acting out phase but he as always been very loving and gentle to his baby brother.

Answer 7

Congratulations.  Your 2 yr old is going to be a little more than curious as to what your doing with a new baby.  You can talk baby until the cows come home, but as far as the 2 yr old is concerned, he cannot see it, so therefore, it doesn'tt exist.  They call that concrete thinking and its normal.

Just expect to have your hands full and you will be ok.  The 2 yr old will have a period of adjustment, but he will be ok.  

Answer 8

try get your son involved as much as you can by letting him pick bubs clothes for the day and picking toys, nappies etc... make sure you praise him and just tell him what a wonderful big brother he is. i had thesame deal with my girls who are 15 months apart. they are now both fighting over who's going to be the better big sister.  

Answer 9

just make sure that you include the baby into the newness of the baby