Dd harping on about having a sister is freaking me out.

[Pinkjenny]

Dd is 3.6yo, ds is 10mo. Dd is brilliant with ds, she adores him, etc etc etc.

But she will not stop banging on about wanting a sister.

When is the baby girl coming?
Will the baby girl sleep in my room?
What will we call the baby girl?
I want ds as well, I want two babies.

I am an only, and am resisting the urge to tell her how lucky she is to have ds. It's really bothering me. I find it unlikely that dh and I will have any more children, and obviously even if we did there would be no guarantee that it'd be the sister she covets.

Lots of her friends (and I mean lots) have baby sisters, which may be compounding the issue.

I almost feel like I've disappointed her, and it makes me feel bad for ds. Ridiculous, really. But I'm not sure what I should be saying to her on the subject.

Any experience?

Bump

buy her a baby annabel doll

she's 3, give it a week and it will be something else

why not tell her there won't be more babies, she has a lovely little brother and why not buy her a dolly she can 'make' into her sister..and it can sleep im her room ,she can wheel it around etc

just gloss over it, and don't make a big thing about it.

don't take it to heart !

She has loads of dolls, she's not blimmin' getting another one!

I think you're right, Lulu - gloss over it is a good idea. Hard to do when she's asking me direct questions about where it's going to sleep, though.

change the subject

a quick,'no, there's no more babies.. ooh, look Cbeebies is on/there's a cat in the tree....' should help

I feel bad for her, though. I would have loved a sister. Or a brother, infact.

Poor little dd

She has a brother, she's not an only like you. Let's say you had another girl, what would you do when DS says he wants a baby brother? Don't feel bad for her, she's lucky. And I wouldn't worry about pointing that out to her either.

My friend's little boy is constantly asking for a sibling and she can't give him one. That hurts. I felt that hurt myself when it took me years to give my son a sibling. Having said that, it never bothered my mother (I was a only who was constantly begging too) who was from the 'that's life' school.

Wannabeglam - food for thought. The slap I needed. I thank you.

Tell her you are only allowed to have one boy and one girl and that mummy is too old and too tired to have anymore. But that's okay because she is the best little girl in the world and you wouldn't want her to have any competition.