7 weeks pregnant and just got a puppy

[ceebee21]

I feel so terrible, but feel like we have made a massive mistake getting the puppy.

We put a deposit down before I was pregnant, and having had 3 miscarriages in 8 months I struggled to believe it would ever work etc. Who knows it still might not.

We now have the puppy and have had for 5 days, and I cant get it out of my mind that we have made a massive mistake...anyone else been in this situation?

I did it.

Had been trying for a second baby for 2 years. Just enevr happened. Low and behold, a week after we brought her home, i was pregnant. It was fine.

We fostered 3 puppies just before Christmas, that had been dumped and then adopted one of them.

Can't say this has been any harder.

By the time you baby is born, the dog will be about a year old and much easier.

You just need to make sure you spend a lot of time training the puppy with the expectations you would have with a baby.

So, I woouldnt have a dog sleeping in the bed while I am trying to feed at 1am. So I would make sure the puppy has their sleeping place set up now.

Teaching about not jumping up, sit, stay, wait etc. All stuff you should be doing anyway, but at least you can start training the puppy for the babies arrival right from the get go.

I would also recommended slowly getting the dog ready for baby noises using you phone and you tube videos. Not right now. Let the dog settle and slowly build it up.

Good luck, I hope everything works out for you

it sounds like a good time to get a puppy, you have probably 7 months before LO is born

I had a puppy during pregnancy and also two other dogs (and a horse )

Honestly it was fine. As the previous poster said use this time to train train train. Make sure it’s used to settling alone, walks nicely on a lead etc. I found the youngest dog was also amazing with the baby as they were babies together to a point.
I Also needed the dog when I had the baby as it got me out twice a day every day. I couldn’t just wallow in pjs. I am a really dog person though and needed it to work, some people aren’t and that’s okay.

If you don’t think you could manage then it would be better off rehomed now when it’s tiny so it’s a difficult call to make but I would make it quickly!