Dilemma for you ladies!
My friend and I both have toddlers the same age and have recently both had our second child.
Hers sounds like a nightmare baby. If she's not feeding or sleeping, she's screaming. A really miserable baby! She's really struggling and is totally worn out and fed up.
I on the other hand, seem to have landed the baby from heaven. Through no engineering of my own, I have ended up with a totally chilled and placid newborn, who sleeps alot and gurgles contentedly when awake. I was petrified about coping with 2, but instead feel like I'm walking on air most days because it's SO much easier than I expected (for now at least - I'm not that deluded that I think it'll last forever).
We were sat having coffee today (there's a big group of us, but we're the only ones to have 2 DC) and she's clearly fed up, and asks me how I 'do it' (i.e have a contented and settled baby). Of cousre it's nothing I've done, it's sheer luck. But I don't know what to say to her to make her feel better without sounding completely smug and patronising.
Any ideas?
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WhatsupDoc · 17/07/2008 21:01
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