Im a stay at home mom. I have such a close bond with my first born. I just found out Im pregnant with my second and Im so worried about how my toddler ( who is 15 months now and will be nearly 2 when this baby is born) will handle this.

I feel sad, I don’t want him to feel displaced or abandoned. Did anyone else have these worries? I’m more worried about my first borns feelings than I am about going through another pregnancy and labor.

i am a first time mom expecting a child in march. I will be a stay at home mom and i am looking for a stroller to support the baby from newborn up until they are a toddler. i am looking at the Micralite TORO Newborn System Stroller but the only issues is it cost 5.00 if it’s worth the price then i will pay but i am open to other (cheaper strollers) for newborns what did you guys use?

Any time I try to go anywhere with my two year old son, he runs away and I can’t get anything done. We try to go to the grocery store and he gets out of the cart and takes off running. I try buckling him in and he gets out, I put him in the back part and he gets out. He will just launch himself over the side and take off. If I try to grab him to hold his hand, he then throws himself on the ground. I have a harness and if I don’t let him go the way he wants, he throws himself on the ground and kicks and screams. He can get out of a the five point harness on my stroller in two seconds flat. If I try to tell him it hurts my feelings or I don’t like it, he doesn’t care. He is too busy throwing a tantrum to listen. I am getting sick of leaving cart after cart of groceries at stores and never being able to get anything done. I am a stay at home mom and if I have an errand to run, I have to do it after he goes to bed at night and I am just over it. I have tried timeouts, bribery, hugging him, swatting his bottom, talking to him to tell him I don’t appreciate it….NOTHING WORKS! Does anyone have any kind of advice on what to do so that I can get something done?
I have taken him to the store for "play time" sometimes for up to two hours. Every trip is not under a time constraint. But I would like to get what I came for on trips when I need things. We have gone right after breakfast, after nap time, with snacks etc. And I would never tell my child to "sit down and shut up." Perhaps that is the kind of parenting you do but I do not.

Ok, so i have found my fiance to be a real pain up the butt this pregnancy. He thinks because its my second that its pretty much no big deal and just a nice leisurly stroll in the park. Yeah, i wish.

Im 30 weeks at the moment and we have a 13 (almost 14) month old son. Im a stay at home mum also. So i stay home all day and look after him and try and rest. I do the house work, make sure there is a cooked meal waiting for him when he gets home. Make his lunch for work the night before and have breakfast ready for him when he gets up. I vacuum daily as our son is crawling still and we have dogs, so things get a bit hectic and messy. LOL. But if he ever comes home and i havnt done the dishes, or hung out the load of washing i put on (but forgot about) its like world war 3 breaks out! He says thing like "i go to work all day and all you have to do is sit on your ass and watch kyuss (son)"

Also some of the things regarding this pregnancy have been really hurtful to me. He said the other day to our son "look at mummies fat tummy" and i responded "im not fat, im pregnant" and you know what he said back "well thats what it looks like". GRRRRR! It may be a tad bit true as im only just starting to get obviously pregnant (and i thought you were supposed to show more with your first, yeah right), but he doesnt have to rub it in my face.

He also seems to think we have like millions of time before this baby comes, so there is no hurry to buy anything. We have most of the basic clothes like vests and boring AIO’s because we didnt find out the sex of our son, so everything is in neutral colours. Still id like a couple of pink/purple things so people dont keep going "is that a boy or a girl". Also i went into our storage room (where all our old baby stuff is) and everything was mouldy . Well except the clothes. Change table, car seat, bassinet (lucky i have 2 and the nice one was at my mums), bouncer. So we need to buy all that sort of crap again. I mean the change table and bouncer arent a big deal, but id like to get a car seat asap as you never know when the baby will arrive. Also we are going to need a double pushchair and have agreed we will buy the brand i want, but will get it second hand to save money. Not that we dont have the money to buy it brand new but he is such a tight ass if the money is not for him.

I NEED maternity clothes right now, im still squeezing into my pre pregnancy jeans but i wear them with the button and zip undone and i wear a singlet (tank top) which doesnt even cover my belly and i have to wear one of his t shirts, or one of my "when i was really fat" t shirts just so my belly isnt hanging out everywhere. And you know what he says when i ask to buy a pair of jeans and a t shirt (which wouldnt cost more than like 30-50 bucks), he says we dont have the money. Yet, he has just bought several cd’s/dvd’s off ebay for atleast each, this week he has bought a tattoo machine (dont even ask, neither of us can draw so its an absolute waste of money, if i knew he was bidding on it i would have hit the roof) which is costing us 0, which pretty much pays for the pushchair that i want. Also he has placed bids on music t shirts, shoes and more cd’s/dvd’s.

I get nothing! Yeah i dont work, but i think i deserve something! I just feel so unprepared for this baby and he seems to think we have endless time before we have to do anything. How can i make him grow up and realise?

Hello all I am a new mom and I have a 7 month old. I was just wondering I have the travel system Graco infant carseat for now and it is good up until 22 pounds. My daughter now weighs 17 1/2 pounds so sometime in the near future I am going to need to get the next step up. The thing is I have no clue what I am supposed to look for or what its called or anything….so help? I usually buy things from ebay or craigslist because my husband is in the marine corps. and i am a stay at home mom and money needs to stretch for the three of us. Thanks so much for everyones answers!

My daughter is 20 months old and will only take naps at home in her toddler bed. I am a stay at home mom so she is used to being at home everyday, but it becomes an issue when we go visit family or stay in a hotel. I am at my parents house visiting today and she skipped her nap. I can tell she is sleepy, but she just won’t lay down and fall asleep…any ideas?