Little bit of an update since my last post. We have celebrated my sons 3rd birthday with a party, I’ve been inundated with people’s comments over my gender announcement and I’ve started back at prenatal yoga classes. On Sunday 16th It was Max’s 3rd birthday. I had the local public hall hired on the Saturday with 19 children attending. This was the first year I have hired a child entertainer and it was by far the best decision I have ever made. Highly recommend Lisa Lollypop if you are based in Aberdeen / Aberdeenshire. For £200 she supplied a bouncy castle, face painting, an hour of fun party games (which the kids loved) and then made each child an animal balloon while they ate their party food. The kids seemed to love her, and joined in on all the games. It completely took the stress off me. I must admit my attempt at getting kids to do pass the parcel the past few years have been sheer awful. There was also no need to worry about music or prizes for games as she supplied the lot. Since my gender announcement I’ve been told countless times how girls are completely different from boys and I’ll have my work cut out for me. So, I decided to question some of my mummy friends who have either all boys or all girls, to hear if they found them both similar or completely opposite to deal with. My findings were as I suspected, each baby / child is different, they all have their own personalities despite being raised the exact same. I feel it also comes down to how your pregnancy and birth went also. I’ve started reading an interesting book about how a mother’s emotions and experiences during pregnancy effect the unborn child in later life. A book I highly recommend reading if you are currently pregnant. So, to those parents that have children of each gender, please know that no two children are ever the same, love them individually for their own unique little ways. Oh and its probably best to keep those comments to yourself, id but it right up there with unnecessary dramatic horror birth stories. Pregnant ladies do not need to or want to hear this sort of nonsense. My husband has been super busy at work the past month or so. Working near every evening and most weekends, which means of course I have been house bound. Beginning to feel like I have cabin fever being stuck in the house alone at nights once max is in bed. Last week had been particularly challenging as Max was demonstrating a whole ray of emotions. Usually I can quite easily ignore angry outbursts and brush them off but lately I have been suffering from a -10 patience level. I think I spent most of the weekend raising my voice at my poor son. It wasn’t till supper time on Sunday when Max was sitting on the toilet and decided to lean back and spray my trousers with urine that I realised just how shouty I had been. ‘Mummy stop shouting at me’, he said with a bottom lip out and watery eyes. My heart literally broke in two. Definitely been failing at optimum parenting skills lately. However, the past few days we have had a great time together and I have forced myself not to be irritated by the slightest thing. Pregnancy is so much more challenging when you already have a child. Which I'm sure is the same for motherhood, when you add a newborn to the mix. On a completely different note, the horrible intense pregnancy dreams have started back up again. They completely ruin an already uncomfortable night’s sleep. So far, I have punched a lady in Sainsbury’s over a 1st class stamps argument, then my more recent dream saw me birth my baby girl at home, to then realise that she had male genitals where her right hand should have been. She literally had a penis instead for a hand!! In these dreams, I tend to say and do things, which I wouldn’t normally. It has me waking up in a panic and sweat, which then results in another trip to the toilet since I’m awake. Why do all the non-fun pregnancy issues start earlier on in subsequent pregnancies? I started feeling baby moving around 16 weeks this pregnancy, whereas last time I didn’t feel anything till 23 weeks. There’s nothing more magical than feeling the first few flutters of your baby wriggling inside. The best bit about pregnancy is experiencing these precious moments together and not having to share your baby with anyone else. I always feel so much more in tune with my babies once I know the gender. You can really connect with them and the bonding definitely begins in the uterus, not after birth. Recommendations: Children Entertainer Lisa Lollypop – www.lisalollipop.com Book ‘The Secret Life of the Unborn Child’ – Thomas Verny, M.D., with John Kelly
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