New Baby Coming - Phoenix,AZ

Get a Boy Cabbage Patch Kid or something related. My son is 3 and he use to hate dolls. I have my old cabbage patch preemie doll that he use to hold via the pacifier and drops it. But, now he plays with it and talks to it. Now, he understands that I have a baby in my stomach. I show him the monthly phases of a baby pic. He know the difference between a kid under 1 that is a baby and a womb. He use to be jealous when I hold my friends's babies. But I think he might be getting use to the whole idea.

She will probably forget all of this when she sees the little baby. I haven't been there because I have 3 girls, but my friend has been trying to have another boy for her son and now has one boy and three girls. Everytime he love that little baby even thought he had wished for a little brother. Hopefully she will feel the same way.

Let your cousin's little girl know that babies are fun no matter if they are boys or girls, and explain to her that as his big sister, she'll get to teach him to do things...
When I found out about my younger brother's being born I cried so much... but once they came home I was so happy to help out.

Hello J.;

My little brother had a hard time accepting my pregnancy. Mind you I had my first and only child at age 26. However, I really spoiled my little brother and he felt that the baby was going to take his place and he would say things like. The baby is going to keep you up crying and screaming all the time etc. I said well you were a happy baby and I loved you very much, so now it is time for your big sister to have her own children. I told him that he could be a big uncle and they could play footbal togeather even though, I was having a girl. Lord knows I do not want her playing football. However, I would give him great example's on how he could help with the baby. As well as, help select names and give ideas for the baby's nursery. Believe me it took a lot of effort and time. However, when the baby came and he meet her. He was happy, now he calls her everyday and he buys her little thoughful gifts and he walks around with her pictures in his wallet. I hope that this helps a little!!!!

This is a little silly, but this happened to us with our oldest daughter. She had a little brother already and when I was pregnant with our third, she decided it was the perfect opportunity to have a little sister. When we found out it was going to be another boy, she was completely devastated. Then we explained that our family was going to be exactly like Disney Pixar's the Incredibles family. Her dad was Mr. Incredible, I was Elastigirl, her little brother was Dash and her new littlest brother was going to be Jack Jack, which means she was Violet. Once we told her that, she was excited that we were going to have a little Jack Jack...it also just happens to work out in our family, right now at least, that every girl cousin in the only girl in their respective family, i.e. none of the girls in our family have their own sisters, so our little girls pretend to be sisters instead of cousins.

My oldest daughter really wanted a baby brother but she was getting a sister, she was not happy. We included her in as much as possible. She would go to the Dr. appt to hear her heart beat (that seemed to really work) She went to the U/S with me. We even gave her naming rights to the baby ( dont really recommend this) we almost had a little girl named tinky winky :) But if she could HELP with the picking out of the name I am sure she will feel extra special and start growing a bond with her new little brother. Maybe help decorate the babies room too.You know the minute my daughter saw her sister she was head over heals. When we decided for a third and our youngest wanted to have a little sister so we did the same thing when we found out we where having a boy.