Becoming a momma for the second time and I'm scared

[Cakey247]

I'm currently 21 weeks pregnant with my second baby and I have a 2 and a half year old son.
I'm so worried I won't be able to juggle spending equal amounts of time with them once the baby is here and I don't want my son to feel like he has been replaced.
How do you manage more than one? How do I ignore the mommy guilt? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Think we all get mummy guilt at some point with 2nd pregnancies and so on.. My son was 5 when I was pregnant with my 2nd and I felt bad that I was having another baby and how I was going to cope with them both and spend time with both but you can easily find a balance as baby does nothing but sleep/feed for first few months anyway so you will get plenty time with your 2yr old as I did with my 5yr old at the time.
I've wondered the same this time round I'm having no3 with a 9yr old and a 3 Yr old. Both in school so not too bad will have mornings with baby. Afternoons with baby and 3yr old and then afterschool with all 3 honestly kids cope with things more than we think and your 2yr old probally won't even remember being an only child once baby is here x

I have a 2 year age gap between mine. To be honest the baby (he's 5 months now) fits in around whatever my daughter is doing. I definitely give more attention to my daughter, than my son. Obviously I feed him and comfort him when needed, but I do very little playing, gazing lovelingly at him etc. It's too hard. I let my DD help - She chooses outfits for him to wear, fetches muslins when needed so she's involved.

Don't worry. Things will change, but I'm sure your DS won't feel like he is being replaced.

My eldest can't remember a time when his little brother wasn't around.

I felt a lot of guilt at first - I think that's natural when your world revolves around one precious little person - but it's the best thing we ever did and the love & fun my boys share, far outweighs any of the guilt I first felt.