Advantages of baby brothers please!

[mrsgreedy]

I got some really good advice off here last time so here goes!

I already have a daughter and I am pregnant with twins and recently found out they are both boys. I am very excited to be having a mixed family and of course my husband is delighted to be having sons. But my daughter is not!

She is a very dainty, girly girl and I do wonder how she will cope with a couple of boisterous boys running about! Will her world really be turned upside down?!

Any advice on how I can persuade her brothers will be wonderful will be greatly received!!

I had 2 older brothers and really enjoyed bein the doted on daughter

Not quite the same but as jooly says she keeps her special position doesn't she?!

Tell her they won't want to play with her toys cos they won't like girly toys.

1. Baby brothers are obedient and will quickly learn to do everything that their older sister commands them to do

1. Baby brothers are giggly and fun

1. Baby brothers will be friends and lifelong supporters when you (parents) are dead (Worryingly DD reacted quite well to this statement)

1. Baby brothers do different things and are therefore interesting and will broaden her outlook

1. Baby brothers wee in fountains

I've run out of upsides

My dd (age 3.5) sounds exactly like yours and from when i told her there was going to be a new baby she kept saying she wanted it to be a girl. She came to my 20 week scan with me and we all found out that it was a boy. When he was born she used to put her hands over her ears when he cried and very often cried with him (only as she didnt understand why he was crying and was frightened) hes also got one heck of a set of lungs! However it really only last about 3 weeks and now at 14 weeks she absolutley loves him, brings him toys, talks to him, sings to him and always asks to feed him. So it might be big change for her at first but she'll soon come round to them and no doubt be besotted with them. Then as they get older, they will idolise her as their big sister.

clothes shopping can be therapeutic.. go and get her to choose some nice blue clothes for baby

I think she may be warming to the idea. She came home from school today saying her best friend said she was lucky to be having boys because she'd get to see lots of willies

Oh and that I can have a sister for her next time I have a baby !!!!!

The logic of children!

I think she may be warming to the idea. She came home from school today saying her best friend said she was lucky to be having boys because she'd get to see lots of willies

Oh and that I can have a sister for her next time I have a baby !!!!!

The logic of children!

I have just asked ds1 (5) what is good about having a baby brother (5mths) "it's good because I love him" "he smiles a lot"

These are things that a sister would do too I am sure of but we didn't tell him what sex we were having because we wanted the surprise factor for him and when people asked his do you want a brother or sister he would tell them it's a surprise I don't mind (and I always felt good about that, though it made him grumpy that people always asked him, he didn't care he knew he was having one or other!)