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The Terrifying Anticipation of Becoming a Mom to Two Under Two
All of the new realities of becoming a Mom to multiple children are finally starting to dawn on me
After nineteen months of raising our first-born child, me and my husband’s days of being a family of three are soon coming to an end in a short matter of weeks (or potentially even days). For my daughter, that means life as an only child will also soon be coming to an end.
Though she’s still blissfully unaware of this impending truth, she’ll soon have to quickly learn how to adapt to sharing all of the time and attention that my husband and I once had solely for her with her younger sibling — something that I’ve personally never experienced as the younger sibling in my family.
Knowing that we’ll no longer be able to shower just one child with our undivided love and attention sends me down a rabbit hole of mixed emotions (on top of the rollercoaster of emotions that I’m already facing as an extremely hormonal woman in her 38th week of pregnancy).
All of the new realities of becoming a Mom to multiple children are finally starting to dawn on me. Things such as the idea alone of navigating how to parent two children (who will both still be in diapers, I may add), figuring out which child needs more…
