People find difficulties while parenting their first child, because it causes a drastic change in their life. This experience exhausts anyone who is parenting for the first time.
It’s fascinating that, when you become parents for the second time, the process becomes much easier and enjoyable. You are accustomed to the sudden changes in your life; you are mentally ready for the upcoming baby! And the most of all you definitely know where not to go wrong, the second time! Apart from these, below mentioned are some of the major reasons to be noted!
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You have all your basics clear
While parenting for the second time, you can easily know that your baby is overtired, over-stimulated or gassy. You would now know whether your child prefers to be rocked or sang and the number of times your baby needs to burp while being fed. As you have gone through this earlier, now your skills to solve your child’s problems in most situations are much better.
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You learn that everything is just a phase
While parenting for the first time, some early development phases of your baby can be tough. This becomes a lot easier second time. While parenting for the first time, some phases of your baby’s life like the late nights, the witching hour and non-stop spit-up seem never ending. Whereas second time all of these become tolerable and you know that it would stop after some time.
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You won't fall for all the scary parenting related stories people tell you
Are you nursing him to sleep? He’ll never learn to sleep on his own! Is he sleeping in your bed? He’ll never want to sleep alone! Is he still breastfeeding? That’s too bad! How many hours did you spend on Google troubleshooting your child, wondering if all these stories were true? You don’t do that anymore with the second child. You know it will all be fine
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You will be handy with all the parenting related hacks
In your second innings, you will have all your homework done and ready for the next child on board. Be it breast- feeding or making him go to sleep, you will know what works best for your child. Your will not have to be clueless about baby related things at all!
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When you are parenting your first child, you learn and anticipate all the changes taking place. To find out the solutions for every problem, many parents read books, tried to get advice from every possible sources, and consult the paediatrician too. When you have more than one child to taken care of, you don’t find the time to relax. For some parents, it becomes difficult to anticipate any milestones because they get so much busy due to their new member in the house.
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