Preparing Ben For Baby
This is as close to a "baby" as he's been!
I have to admit it. I am very, very nervous about Ben and the new baby.
Ben is 100% a mama’s boy. He is clingy and not very independent (sorry, Ben, but it’s true). He wants me in the room with him at all times. Obviously, I have to leave the room sometimes, and while some days he’s just fine with that, other days as soon as I step out of his eyesight he starts screaming. He wants my attention on him all the time — when he’s playing independently without me, he’ll even look back at me occasionally to make sure that I’m there and that I’m paying attention to him.
So how, I wonder, will he handle it when suddenly my attention can’t be on him all of the time? When I’ve got another person to pay attention to — and admittedly, at the beginning, a lot of attention to? He’ll be fifteen months old by then, a toddler and not a baby, so hopefully he will be better about it. But I’m worried that he’ll be just as clingy as he is now, that he’ll get jealous of the new baby.
And because we’re having another baby while Ben is still so young, I can’t explain to him what’s going to happen — not yet, anyways. I can’t spend the pregnancy pointing out how my belly is growing and I can’t tell him that he’s going to have a brother or a sister. Don’t get me wrong, I still do say it all the time, but he doesn’t understand. So he’ll be completely blindsided when this new baby comes. Or so I fear, anyways.
I honestly have no idea how to prepare Ben for the fact that soon he’s going to have a new brother or sister, another baby that Mommy has to pay attention to.
What do I do? Any advice?
you will be surprised at how much he will naturally “Understand”
little folks are a lot more flexible
your “Irish Twins” are going to be a ton of fun, focus on that
I hope so! I’m just nervous.