This weekend, we had some friends with an eight-week old daughter visiting us for an afternoon. Ant was sitting in his high chair (he's taken to eating only in that recently and eschewing his booster seat), eating supper. I thought I would take the opportunity to hold the little girl, who was quietly sleeping on her mom.
(Aside - it was incredibly difficult to find a position that was actually comfortable for me to hold her in - belly very much in the way! Still no signs of that changing anytime soon though).
Just a few minutes after we got settled, Ant looked over, and started getting quite upset. "Get baby off Mommy! Mommy no hold Meghan! Get baby OFF!". He demanded to get out of the high chair, and came running over to me with his arms up for me to pick him up. I offered to let him sit on my other side, while I continued to hold the wee one - NOT acceptable. Daddy took him upstairs to calm down (not really) while I gave her back to her mom, and Ant immediately wanted to be held by me when he came back down.
So despite seeming so accepting of the upcoming reality the other day when he was jumping in the crib, the actuality of my holding another baby did not go over nearly as well.
I'm just hoping that when it's HIS baby, things will be different.
Please?
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It will be different when it is his baby. It took E a few days to really warm up to her baby sister, but it happened. Two years later they are (usually) the best of friends. Hope you are feeling OK. I'm sending you labor vibes.
Thanks for the nice note on my blog.
Yes i'm sure it will be different with his baby. Although, with my naughty nephews, when NN2 was born, NN1 (a very placid sort of 3 year old) sat quietly beside his mother and new baby brother and then said politely:
"Mummy, can I pinch the new baby and pull his hair?"
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