I think Karina is really stressed out about the new baby and all the things Mommy can't do with her right now, like sit on the floor. She has started to get really cranky about things and is taking out her frustration on her poor Lambkin. We are trying to keep things calm and stable for her, but I know it's hard for her. I just hope that as things get closer it doesn't get worse. Hopefully, once Eleina is here and she can see that the only thing that's different is this whiny kid is around, she'll feel better. I tried explaining things to her some, but I don't know if it was helping so I stopped. She finally said something nice about the baby coming the other day, about how she would teach Eleina how to do things and she also asked if Eleina would talk to her. She said, "Baby Leina kicks if I talk to her" and of course I told her yes, she does.
We are keeping as many of her routines the same as much as possible. I'm just not sure what else to do. I'm open to advice. You know how I love my girl and I can't stand for her to be unhappy like this. So any tips would be greatly appreciated!
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Our girls must know the arrival of our baby girls is coming soon. Annika has been horrible lately! She's usually so well behaved but now the smallest thing sets her off into a tantrum! I just hope she's a bit better behaved once the baby comes!
It's tough, but they really do sense that their world is changing and that's scary. We can't pretend that it's not changing, but we can reassure them that we love them just as much as ever. After the baby came, when I was nursing I would read to her and cuddle a little bit so that she didn't feel so excluded from something that the baby got to do but she didn't.
She will adjust, it will take time! I am so excited for you!!
I don't have children so I don't know if this is realistic or not...but if you can't do things like sit on the floor with her, can you just invite her to sit wherever you are? Maybe inviting her to do what you can do instead of trying to do what she is doing will help :)
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