Any wisdom to share..

A present for him from the baby?

no way my 22 mo would get things like that for our baby. I wish!

Umm we got him a pressie from the baby and just the things you've said. He can sit next to me and read and do his shape sorter or puzzles and things like that. We bought him some mainly music dvds we can sing and move to together during feeds (20 mins long so perfect!).

tbh he is going to find it hard, that's the reality. My baby is now 6 weeks and the toddler has been better for about 2 weeks. He just seems to get it now that i have to do this, and maybe has limited memory of what it used to be like before. I make effort to go out in the morning so he gets his run around and play and then the day usually goes quite well. Don't let him get away with naughty behaviour just because the baby is here. I've seen friends do that cos they felt bad and that just leads to more problems.

My mum told me that when my brother was born that she would read to me from what ever book I wanted when she was feeding him - it happened to the Peter Rabbit mostly that I chose.

This meant a quiet time for me and feeding time for him.

By the way she knows the Peter Rabbit story by heart and I do too!

i raided the $2 shop...............and wrapped them up so each day he visted he got something....make sure the first time who ever has number 1 phones when they are coming to see you so you dont have number 2 in your arms........jealous is a big thing.......oh and ty wanted mums poweradd so hubby got a bottle and put juice water in it for him.........i let ty go get nappies help bath feed everything...he evben goes and gets her clothes .......he is majorly protective now...........i do have to go into a room by myself to feed ...i give him bottle and a movie (usually ice age 3 for the hundredith time) mia was too interested in surrounds to be feed by him....also make sure when people come and dot over number 2 to make sure they do the same to him.......spend the same time with them both...mine back fired a bit when mia was in hospital 2s since birth and when ty went in i couldnt be with him cause i was BF

I'm with Peanut. DS1 was 20 months when DS2 arrived. I went into hospital in labour after DS1 had gone to bed at about 6.30pm and we were home by 5am the next morning so DS2 was already in the house before DS1 woke up

He has never been an issue, we also did the present thing but may as well not bothered as he didn't get that it was from the "bubba". He is also really good at getting me things that I need when I am feeding DS2 and can't get up - but he is also at daycare so apart from the first 3 weeks which were over Christmas and I had DH home anyway - his life has pretty much carried on as normal.

We have had more "Mama do" comments to things but he is generally happy for his father to do it instead