7 weeks to due date and starting to get nervous

[DoG87]

This is my second baby and so far I’ve been so busy looking after my 4 year old, working & just going through normal everyday things that I’ve hardly had time to think about this pregnancy. Now that Christmas is over and I’ve just turned 33 weeks pregnant it seems to have hit me that my baby is due in 7 weeks & if he’s early like my first he’ll be here in 6 weeks! Starting to feel a bit freaked out about how close it all is now and don’t feel ready or prepared at all. I’m a bit concerned about the birth as first was rather traumatic but keep trying to tell myself it can’t be as bad as last time. What I’m finding more overwhelming is how on Earth am I going to cope with a newborn and a 4 year old!?!? I struggled so much with my 1st for the first 4 months. How do I get her to preschool when I’ve been up all night, how do I breastfeed when I’ve got another child to look after. With my 1st I literally sat on the sofa & fed for 6 weeks but what do I do this time? How do I still run a house, make meals, look after my daughter all with a newborn?!?!

There are moms with 10 children and they manage so we will manage too! i hope 🤣
And the newborn stage will pass so fast , its months until September and the school runs and its different tired having a baby and being pregnant and cant do nothing. I'm so fed up being unable to do what i normally do yet like you omg the fear... 🤣🙈

Are you a single parent?
If not, you get your partner to pitch in and do their fair share!

Second babies are so much easier than first ones - and your DD is at an age when you can get her to sit and do something watch TV while you’re feeding. But the main thing is that you are much more relaxed with a second one, and they usually just fit in with your existing routine!