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Toddler and New baby, Daddy readjusting

Shelbi - posted on 09/13/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )

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My toddler, Kaplin, was 18 months old when Killian was born in July. My husband and I are both young parents, he works and I don't, so i understand he is under a lot of stress all the time, It just seems with Killian, he's either all googly over the baby, smiling and cooing with him, kisses. Or completely opposite, if he cries even a little i can see it really annoys him. With Kaplin, we were both new at it and even younger, so I guess I didn't notice anything, but i notice it now and it actually makes me mad sometimes to think this little helpless baby could upset him so. So what should i do to help him get used to it again and just be happy about everything this amazing little baby does, be it cute or tiresome?

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Liz - posted on 09/14/2010

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I know what you're going through. I am 23 years old and my husband and I have a set of two year old b/g twins and just had our youngest son on July 12th of this year. I am also a stay at home mom with our children and he goes off to work. It seems at times he also gets really frustrated with the kids, or is the complete opposite and is all taken with them.

When I've noticed it I try to talk to him about it, and it usually does tend to help, though every once and a while we get into a fight over it depending on how stressful the day had been. My best advice is to talk to him and tell him how you feel. And if need be let him think about what the two of you discussed, and bring it up again a few days later.

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