When I was about to have my rookie baby, Holden, I looked at my buddy Susan (going at it for the second time) as though she were a overall expert. I believed that I was sooooo special (not true!) as well as sooooo clueless (true!) but she had everything figured out.
Well, I have news for my rookie-pregnant self as well as any type of of you rookie parents-to-be: a second-time around mother may be much more comfortable with the new baby, however she’s still living on the frontier of exactly how to offer with her older kid plus more to juggle as well as even less time for a nap. So, it’s still a quite huge deal.
If you have any type of buddies about to have second infants as well as you’re wondering what to get the mother who already has all the infant gear, enable us to make a few suggestions:
Private yoga class: prenatal or post-partum yoga where she doesn’t have to figure out exactly how to leave the home = awesome.
Food train. Enlist a gang of buddies to indication up for meals on a calendar with mealtrain.com or a shared google spreadsheet. Witching hour times two is no time for cooking.
Advice book: interview your buddies with much more than one youngster about bit as well as huge things. exactly how do you tons everybody into the car? exactly how do you get food on the table? What is something you swore you’d never do (that you now most likely do)? helpful or not, these are fantastic bit keepsakes.
Forgo the shower as well as chip in for a massage.
Meal Prep celebration where mom gets freezer fodder from everyone; there are locations that can organize this for you.
Everyone gets a massage ?
If different gender, clothes
If exact same gender: a fresh towel, laundry cloths, onesies that are unstained
If name known, customized clothes to ensure that #2 has a few things of his own
Babysitting dates where other mothers of exact same aged #1 will come get #1 as well as take him away for a couple hours
The basics, be the sweetie that purchases a full medicine cabinet’s worth of infant tylenol as well as butt zinc. much more outstanding gift concepts for new parents on our incredible registry guide.
What are some other fantastic concepts for mothers going once again for their second, third, or fourth?
psssst. hello Whit, You had a “real shower” with shower games as well as it appeared like fun. did you like it? Did you desire you had a group massage instead? Shhhh… I won’t tell.