Parents worry about handling a newborn with other children
10 posts across 4 communities in the last 60 days; 50% from r/NewParents.
“My baby will be starting daycare soon and she gets super overwhelmed by crowds. Not even large crowds, even just one more than me and my husband can cause a major meltdown. Has anyone else experienced this? I’m worried how daycare will go and whether she will just freak out all…”
“Families of 5- I need encouragement. I am pregnant with baby #3 and my other two will be almost 3 and almost 5 years old when Im due. This baby is very wanted and was planned, so don’t come for me. But now as Im approaching the reality of having 3 kids, Im starting to panic. Of…”
“I’m hoping this is the right place and I’m just looking for advice before we make the decision. I’m almost 40 and my babies are always absolute monsters but both of my boys (20+10) were born on or around their due date with my waters breaking naturally. Sadly I have difficulties…”
New parents, especially single parents, feel overwhelmed by the challenges of caring for a newborn while also managing older children and navigating difficult life circumstances. The intensity of the newborn stage is causing anxiety and questioning how to balance multiple responsibilities.
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“Families of 5- I need encouragement. I am pregnant with baby #3 and my other two will be almost 3 and almost 5 years old when Im due. This baby is very wanted and was planned, so don’t come for me. But now as Im…”
“My baby will be starting daycare soon and she gets super overwhelmed by crowds. Not even large crowds, even just one more than me and my husband can cause a major meltdown. Has anyone else experienced this? I’m worried how daycare will go and whether she will just freak out all day on them and if they daycare will kick us out or something due to her behaviour. Looking for personal experiences who have gone through something similar and what happened. submitted by /u/l_london [link] &”
“I’m hoping this is the right place and I’m just looking for advice before we make the decision. I’m almost 40 and my babies are always absolute monsters but both of my boys (20+10) were born on or around their due date with my waters breaking naturally. Sadly I have difficulties giving birth naturally and ended up with forceps deliveries with both. I have spoken to our family planning as I am a ‘high risk’ as a result of this and having had lletz on my cervix 10 years ago. I’ve been told I may n”
“My partner and I are expecting our first baby in about 3 months. We both have “experience” with kids, but mine is significantly more than theirs. I have, and continue to, work with newborns for over a decade, so there’s a lot I already know how to do vs what not to do. They have younger siblings, but nearly a 17 year age gap, so they weren’t involved much in the early years. How do you handle not bossing them around and letting them learn the ropes on their own, without overstepping or being ann”
“As title says, my husband and I are pretty overwhelmed w newborn and 23 month old. Yes, both children were “planned.” However, the postpartum recovery this time around has been more challenging. I ended up developing 2 severely Thrombosed hemorrhoids the size of fun size Twix bars (srry tmi), on top of the stinging/bleeding from my stitched crotch (again srry tmi) and the crampiness from my epidural site (shout out to the resident who botched and missed my spine 3X!) The toddler tantrums and sle”
“Hi there!! I am a new mom to a 4.5 month old. I have to be honest, I have really struggled post partum in a lot of ways. PPD, PPA. Yes I have sought help, etc. I have to be honest, I wanted more than one. I would have 5 if I could. It seems like this little man completely flipped everything upside down and then some. He changed our whole lives! Which is wonderful; I couldn’t imagine life without him. It’s definitely getting better and I really am believing now when people told me it would. But….”
“Im a SAHM to a 3 year old boy and 9 week old preemie at home. My son is used to a lot of attention fully on him so we knew it would be an adjustment bringing home a new baby. The baby had to stay in the nicu for 11 days and my son was sick during this time so I stayed at the hospital and only saw my son once which was very hard, he was home with grandparents for the first 4 days then with dad. You could tell this affected him because he seemed sad but stoic while FaceTiming and when my husband g”
“I currently have a 4 week old and a 21 month old and oh my gosh it’s hard. I feel like I’m drowning everyday. I’m a SAHM and my husband works. He didn’t take much time off because he runs his own business and had an employee leave right when the baby was born. When my husband gets home, he is a huge help and takes care of the toddler while I have the newborn. But during the day, it’s a struggle. I feel like my cortisol is constantly peaked and I’m overwhelmed. Does it get better or do you just g”
“I think my husband and I might be one and done, although we’d really love to try for a boy ….i just think it might be too much for us to do this newborn stage again. Everyday we ask each other how the heck people have more than one child, especially multiple We’re 19 days in and this is truly hard as hell having a newborn. Like the trenches. It’s the best and hardest thing we’ve ever done but I genuinely can’t imagine doing this again. We didn’t even do much before having a newborn, huge homebod”
“I have no choice and am raising three kids alone because their father made a really horrible decision and now he’s incarcerated. I’ve been alone since 6 months pregnant. Just had the baby in July. Also have a 4 & 9 year old. I have to send my newborn & 4 year old to daycare in order to not lose everything and I’m really freaking out. Me & baby are so attached, hes like the calmest most content baby ever, never cries, sleeps through the night (6.5-7hours) eats so good, never fussy. I’”