Calling mums that had a "3rd baby in Jul-Aug!".. Any tip's and can I ask some question's?

[BabyMadwithBump]

Hi I'm almost 25 weeks with my 3rd baby I have two DS's 7yrs and 5yrs. DH goes to work at 8 in the morning so it's all left to me to get DC ready and to school, Thank god I'm due in the six weeks holiday hopefully gave me some time, LO will be about 4-6 weeks old when they start back at school, one in junior's and one still in infant school, and different schools too, just wondering if you have any tip's? Also how did you find the birth of your 3rd baby? I've had more MS, scars and feel more feed up and uncomfortable with this LO compared to my other 2 DC, did you have/feel this way too?
Thanks!

We had our third son in August and it was fine - great in fact!

He was born 2.5 weeks before the start of term. DS1 was starting year one and DS2 was still at home with me (only 3 - so slow to walk to school/get out of the house etc). Plus, in DS3's third week DH started working away from home again one night a week.

It has been fine. You'll be amazed at how little sleep you can survive on when you have to, and how quickly you can get out of the house when you have a deadline. With DS2 it used to take me ages to get out of the house (if I didn't have a deadline) - now we are out by 8.30 (ish).

Tips: Try to get your DH/DP to stock up on some holiday so that every 2 or 3 months he can have a week off and you can have a few lie ins, in case you have a baby that doesn't sleep. Try to keep early mornings at the week-end free indefinitely. I find even now that I need a lie in at the week-end as I just don't get enough during the week and cumulative sleep deprivation is worse than that you get at the beginning.

Try and think of incentives for your DSs to get ready and out on time (star charts/chocolate after school etc etc). Buy in lots of videos from charity shops for when the going gets tough and you can give them one to keep them quiet while you do the things you need to.

I found about three months in that I just wanted to stay in and cuddle my baby (our last ) and cancelled lots of social things. So, try not to over commit socially.

Even now I keep lunchtime until the school run free for housy stuff and feeding. If you are breastfeeding and have two others, you will probably need to rest a bit to keep your milk up. I also try to get supper started during the day so I am free when DS1 comes home from school (which of course is when new babies also start their mammoth feeding sessions).

Oh yes, make sure to buy your sons' teachers nice Christmas presents so she/he turns a blind eye to any lateness

Good luck, I'm sure you will be fine!

hi, I had my 3rd dd last July, my others were only 4 and nearly 3 at the time. So cant really help re school.

I do remember having more MS but dont think I got any new scars at (plenty from my previous ones tho ).

The birth itself was good, just under 2hrs from start to finish. But i'd been in hospital for a week by then due to high BP and protien. My waters were broken nearly 3 weeks early.

I think mothers have`an amazing ability to cope, and I am sure you will be fine. Good luck!

We had our third last August - ds1 is in infants and ds2 pre-school some days so dd1 has spent huge amounts of time so far in her buggy doing pick up and drop offs with me at different places. I find mornings no problem getting out of the house as we are all up early and I make sure everything is ready the night before. I think I was lucky as dd slept and slept for the first 2 months (literally - no-one every saw her with her eyes open!)though sadly not through the night (and still doesnt).

After school and teatimes are harder - all three clamouring for attention and food, dh manages to get back to bath the boys most nights which helps.

I found breastfeeding harder this time just because of the other demands on my time and I wasnt getting enough rest and sleep - think this affected my milk supply.

DD's birth was the easiest of the three - really positive experience, pretty fast, no drugs.

Dont have too high expectations of what you can achieve in those early months, accept any offers of help and remember to enjoy your new baby!

Thanks so much!

Due to MS my boys know that mummy needed sleep so that was great and hopefully they'll remember that again later I think they will their great boys, also teachers seem to have the baby bug they are always asking if I'm okay and so on and always have a chat with them, their always asking if there is anything they can do and so on, plus when I had MS they understood when my boys were alitttle late, so all good there. Trying to sort the garden at the moment and getting lots of garden toys and so on, so they can have somewhere extra to play. I find in the six weeks holiday that family love having them for the day and/even overnight due to not having to worried about school and stuff so that will be a great help. Not BF as I tried it with DS#2 and it really wasn't for me, I also had PND with DS#2 too so trying everything I can to make it a happy wonderful thing having this baby, due to feeling lonely, so tired and useless when I had DS#2 (DS woke every 3 hours, tuck 1 1/2 hours to feed and get back off to sleep, this was all day and night for 7 months, the one good thing was DH was able to feed DS when I just had enough and wanted to sleep). I had DS#1 in 4 hours and DS#2 in 3 hours, been having nightmares on having LO on the kitchen floor , thanks for all your tips and chat helped alot, just going to wait see and also plan these school runs I'm going to have to do with a NB, but at least I'll have alittle time before they start back thank god, thanks again!