New sibling woes

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When B2 arrived, DS was heartbroken. He has not taken well to the new baby, resulting in tantrums, broken sleep and he has started pushing children at daycare (he has never hit, bitten or pushed anyone before).

I know it'll take time, care and attention, and we're working on it but the regular tantrums - especially when he can see I have my hands full are doing my head in and making me quite resentful and upset(if I can be honest).

Normally I'll ignore a tantrum but I wonder if I should be doing something else? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Any recommended books also?

Daniels behaviour turned feral after Alex showed up. It took time for him to adjust beacause he had been the centre of our attention all his life.. but we got him a couple of new dvds and told him he could watch those while i was busy with alex because he was a horrible feeder which could take nearly an hour to get a feed into him. Daniel was really happy with this arrangement of watching thomas while mummy was busy then I made an effort to do something fun with him while Alex was asleep.. usually baking cause he loves it

We did the 'baby you have to wait' and it worked well. We also had a special box for BFing and I kept us in a routine as much as possible so that DS1 knew when was baby time and when was his time. If DS1 was throwing a tanty I would finish what I was doing with DS i.e finish wiping his bum put then pop him on the floor, or if I was BFing I'd just take him off and pop him down, then go ask DS1 if he wanted a cuddle or if he needed time out. The way I figured it DS1 would get more benefit from the attention than DS2 would get problems from the disruptions (that might not be very clear sorry). Anyway he either had a cuddle and I encouraged him to use words to tell me what he wanted or how he was feeling, or he went to his room til he could be good company (I don't let my children tantrum in the same room, it drives me mental). We rarely had any issues and being reassured that he was still important seemed to deal with any sibling issues as he adores his brother and wants more 'family babies' HTH!

DS1's behaviour went downhill too. He was 22 mths when DS2 was born. We were a bit softer on him for a while but when it didn't improve we went back to strict boundaries, time out etc. It did take a few months but he is much better again now. Of course it could also have been an age/timing thing.

Definitely normal. We had the same thing happen here.