What will you do differently?

[Claire76]

To all you expectant Mum's out there preggers with number 2, what lessons have you learnt from your first? Is there anything you will be doing differently this time around? Or was it plain sailing for you and you will do it all the same?

[dara07]

We let very bad sleeping habits develop with our first LO so def didn't allow that to happen second time round! You're wiser second time round, not so inexperienced! D x

[isabellasmum]

I'm not pregnant but we were talking about this recently and there's nothing we could think of especially.

I think so much depends on what your baby likes and what works for one might not for the next. I'll prob go straight into blw rather than attempt purees again as I got quite upset when Isabella wouldn't eat mush but blw was a doddle.

Also I wouldn't buy all the random baby gear that I spent so much on as we could have done without most of it and it's really wasteful.

[Debbiemeep]

I'm going to use a sling this time round to give my arms a break and at least then I can breastfeed and walk about at the same time! Will also try and not be so paranoid about every little cry.

And I'm going to make sure I get enough sleep, even if it means letting someone else come up and look after baby for a few hours. I was so possessive of Matthew (still am I suppose!) that I couldn't relax if anyone else had him, even when it was my mum in my own house. Being in hospital last week made me realise that he's fine if I'm not there, before that I had never left him with anyone for more than a few hours.

I think I'll be more aware of how I'm feeling and what's normal; I thought I just had baby blues and that it was normal to cry all the time and feel like I couldn't cope even after 4 months. I used to think things like "thats a big tree, I could just keep driving straight and crash into it" Its only been recently reading about others and talking to people at antenatal class that I realised I probably had a bit of depression and that if I had only told someone how I'd felt I could have got over it sooner, rather than struggling through it on my own.

Other than that, I think Matthew has turned out pretty well so I'll just try and do things in a similar way.

[Ellie H]

Ha! Not a chuffing clue! I played it by ear the first time and that's my plan this time too .

xxxxxxxxxxx

[mrsharvey]

Jess was a pretty good baby, the only thing i used to stress about was making sure she drank all her bottle and it was on time, think I will be more easy going this time and not be such a stickler for time/timings xxxx

[noababy]

I found that in some ways you mellow out with each kid, but in other ways, you look back and say damn-I thought I was gonna change that or do that differently, and for me personally , I made lots of the same mistakes over. I do think most of my mistakes have to do with periods when I was not putting my own needs first-frustration and exhaustion take their tolls.

[Imosmummy]

I tried to get daddy to put Imo down more as george was only ever happy being carried around, that plan didnt work.
Other than that nothing else, i took each day as it came. They were both similar in the that both cried all the time, both were very sicky so we did the same things both times.
I really cant thik at the mo.............

[vickiepower]

i think its difficult to plan what you will do with a baby until it arrive and know what temperment they have, we have always taken 1 day at a time and we've not had too many problems....yet!

[cole]

My 2 are opposites so far. Georgia had reflux, cry baby, on medicines, up down hospital etc. Theo has always been more laid back. He is so relaxed even when he is ill he is good One thing I wish I had done before Theo was born is make sure Georgia had her routine in place.xxx