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Mommy's helper!
When I first found out that I was pregnant 8 months ago the first thing that popped into my head was "Oh no how is Jacob going to handle this?". As most parents of one child probably do they fear that introducing a new baby into the house will throw off the balance of the universe and "hell" will ultimately let loose! Will Jacob hate his brother, will he throw unlimited tantrums, will he revert back to "baby ways" and suddenly want to nurse again or want to be held constantly....
So this week was Jacob's first week as a BIG BROTHER and of all the scenarios that Paul and I juggled with what ended up actually happening was one scenario that we only thought about once but with all of the stories that we had heard from people with more than one kid we quickly dismissed it as "a dream" and went back to thinking of all of the bad scenarios and how we would deal with them and help Jacob through this traumatizing time in his life.
Jacob has been great this week, he has been a very loving, helpful, trusting, patient, and flexible little guy! Jacob has always been very loving and although the "terrible twos" do rear their head occasionally Paul and I are very happy with how our little man is turning out. To say we were surprised by how Jacob took to his brother would be an understatement. Jacob wants to constantly hold Andrew and will give him a pacifier when he needs one (although Jacob calls it a "ring pop" because recently Jacob was given a "ring pop" sucker and I guess has decided that pacifiers look like ring pops). He comes and tells Paul and I when Andrew is crying or whining, or even making tiny little squeaky noises. He even will get the boppy for me when I need to feed Andrew and has decided that it is OK for Andrew to nurse (which was my biggest fear with Jacob's jealousy).
Overall we haven't had too many problems, we did miss naptime one day and he wasn't as pleasant as he had been, but that is to be expected. So now the only question is: Will he stay like this or will he end up being jealous later on once Andrew doesn't sleep 22 hours a day? Or what about when Andrew starts crawling and getting into Jacob's toys? Or should we just count our blessings and consider ourselves lucky?
Either way I feel very lucky to have such two beautiful little boys and Paul and I will deal with any problems as them come (or if they come) but right now we will relish in the ease of transition that we have been given this week!
Alma Woodsey Thomas Art Project
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