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Ok…Ariella’s scaring me a little. Whenever DH shows any affection (hugging me, touching the belly to feel the baby move), Ariella runs up to him and screams “no” while trying to push him away.
What’s going on?? I’m scared now! How is she going to react when she sees me holding the baby or breastfeeding it? I’m really worried now!Welcome to a whole new set of issues when you go from one to two children! I have to laugh, you just wait…
When Carter was a baby and cried a lot and required a lot of attention as all babies do. One day carter was on the floor waiting for one of us to pick him up and Dylan announced “Carter needs to go outside!” picked him up, put him out on the porch and closed the sliding glass door!
I don’t know if any of you watch LOST, but do you remember the episode when Charlie drowns in the station and he writes on his hand “Not Penny’s boat”, well David and I were hysterical, as Carter was not sure what the heck Dylan was doing, and we could see him from inside with his hands pressed against the glass and that is the only thing the both of us thought ofAnyway, I guess what I am saying, is it is normal, and they will have a love/hate relationship as all siblings do and they will do great together!I have to say our sense of humor has grown exponentially since having children.Ann Marieumm yeah, there was the time that john walked into jonah’s room to find jonah dragging ari by the arms across the floor…ari didn’t really even complain much, I think he was puzzled as to what the heck was going on…ANYWAY: the best advice I ever got was to never ‘blame’ the baby when I was busy with something- so for example, if I was changing Ari and Jonah was hollering for me to come to him, then I’d say “Mama’s hands are busy right now, I’ll be right there
!” This sounds like such a ‘small’ thing, but I truly feel it helped! This way it was my hands that were to ‘blame,’ not Ari or ‘the baby’as for breastfeeding: another piece of advice I got & used was this: first thing, even at the hospital, when I breastfed Ari, I snuggled up w/ Jonah and he had a snack (snack time for baby and for big brother) and some juice (a treat bcse at home he doesn’t get juice, lol) and I read him a book. Actually, the book was ‘from’ Ari- I said “look Jonah, here’s a book that Ari is giving you!” (you could even wrap it up- I didn’t but that’s because I don’t really wrap anything
)…so I did this a lot at the beginning- used my brestfriend nursing pillow (LOVE THIS!!!) and got Ari all situated to breastfeed him and then I would give a small snack (string cheese or apple slices, whatever) to Jonah & read him a book or two…does Marianna have a favorite doll or stuffed animal? you could give her a newborn diaper and she could pretend to change her baby, etc…I gave Jonah a doll sling, LOL!!! here’s Jonah wearing his moose:http://shutter07.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/06/002/7F/6E/13/52/EQe7ZRsblUYobvmNubERY-4QBqVhm4zp0300.jpgSo I think helping her feel important, needed, etc will help. She can bring you things (diaper, wipes, or just make things up that you ‘need’ LOL!) and you & dh can make a BIG DEAL how she’s SUCH A GOOD HELPER!!!!
well, with Ariella you can have Jonah
(’cause I have Jonah & Ari)I wanted Ari to be Micahand I also like Ruben…Gabriel, Daniel, Nathaniel…Leo…
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