Books about New Little Brothers?

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Just found out we are having a DS2! Over the moon and hoping to help DS1 be excited too.

He's currently 2.9 and will be just over 3 when his brother arrives. Can anyone recommend any books featuring new little brothers that will help him prepare him? Ideally, I would like something that shows breastfeeding, even in the background, as DS1 still feeds a little and I'd like him to understand that he won't have priority when his brother comes.

Thanks!

Bumping this as in almost exact same position! Only DS1 not quite 3!

I loved this one:

www.amazon.co.uk/My-New-Baby/dp/0859539741/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in by Annie Kubler. There's a whole series covering pregnancy/babysitting etc too. There are no words so you describe (or get the child to describe) what is happening and the pictures are lovely and detailed too. The children involved are gender neutral. Best of all, mum breastfeeds whilst dad helps out with housework!

Thank you! Will check that book out, it sounds lovely.

I liked this one, and handily for you, it is about two boys! Dd loved it.

Going slightly OT but anyway....

Try not to worry too much about the whole breastfeeding thing meaning you can't do too much, it is AMAZING what you manage when you have 2 of them. There was only 20 months between DS1 and DS2, but I got very good at multitasking.. you can read, do jigsaws, watch TV (bad mum) when the little one feeds, plus much more. I got to be an expert at feeding while walking around so that I could e.g. get DS1 a drink or a snack, plus you learn to be much better organised before starting a feed. And poor DS2 got very used to being interrupted mid feed so I could e.g. retrieve a toy or swap DVDs!

Just don't get so good at it you forget what you are doing - one of my best friends answered the door to the postman mid-feed - apparently he didn't know where to look!!

Thanks grubbalo! I'm slightly concerned about DS1 seeing breastfeeding as his domain as although he feeds relatively little, it is something he asks for when he wakes in the night and also in stressful situations. I'm not intending to stop him before the baby comes as I think this might make him even more resentful of DS2, but I want him to understand that baby will have priority, IYSWIM.

Been playing a lot of "Mummy goes first, DS1 goes second" games to get him used to that idea. Also been telling him him about baby needing to eat milk because he's too little to eat food, but it's hard to say how much it sinks in. I thought a book might be a good way to visualise another baby breastfeeding, but far too many I looked at have bottles, and the baby dolls we've been playing with at playgroup also have bottles, and my sister, who has the only other baby in the family, stopped at six months so he just hasn't been exposed to breastfeeding other than his own.

I'm sure after a couple of weeks everything will settle down and he'll be fine! Just had several people say I must be mad to attempt tandem feeding even on a small scale and I'm very keen to prove them wrong.