Two Kids

Yep, its definitely way harder ... but it was no where near as hard as I thought it would be. Morgan is really cruisy and just goes with the flow (and has no real "routine" as such still cos shes so random/flexible) ... and Jake turned two a few days before she was born and thought he was the centre of the universe, but actually was amazingly good about her arrival. He adores her and always asked if she was coming with us etc! and the feeding was fine - he usually played by himself and waited til I'd finished (learnt pretty fast I wasn't moving, and at 3 I'm sure she will understand that pretty quickly) - kinda got less clingy. I made sure I gave him plenty of one on one play time when she slept (she was always asleep for the first 8 weeks!!). We gave him a pressie from her at the hospital too, and made sure I wasn't holding her when they first met, so I could cuddle him first.

The thing I found hardest was trying to get her to sleep with him under my feet at times. Disney channel and food are your friends!!!!

Like everyone said - it doesn't take that long til you're in the swing of it. the worst thing is the tiredness, cos you can't just lie down when the baby sleeps, and even though he still has a huge nap (and you probably don't with her now?), its really hard to time it to get them both sleeping at the same time (they did at first, then she did 30mins naps for ages, and now I get a little overlap but at least shes not up in the night now).

Get as much help as you can in the first 6 weeks ... if someone else is there to hold the baby for a while so you can do something with the toddler, or entertain the toddler while you put baby in bed it helps HEAPS.

my husband goes back to work on tuesday and while I know I will manage I am still freaking out.

be kind of glad when schools go back cause at least things like mainly music will be back.

It is hard, harder than one, but you very quickly adapt and soon learn not to be so picky and pedantic about all sorts of stuff, including behaviour etc. You "ease up" a bit, I think cos you know the world isn't gonna end if someone screams for 5 minutes while you are busy doing something else or whatever. You also trust your gut a bit more and don't second guess yourself so much, so that part is easier, i guess.
The hard bit is re adjusting to baby mode - ie the lack of sleep, the night wakings etc. And not just being able to head out the door with a spare nappy in your bag just in case at any old time.
My biggest tip (and life saver) was to phase out morning sleeps earlyish on and make sure hey both sleep during the early afternoon for a good stretch. In the beginning if you can get them both down for a nap in the arvo, it rock,s but when baby goes down to 2 or three sleeps a day, make the late morning early arvo one a big one. Do all your stuff in the morning and rest inthe arvo.

Definately harder!! infact, often I look back to when I only had one, and wonder what on earth I did all day!!! But it is all SO worth it...

I think some of the hardest times I have found are...

- Going to the supermarket, with both of them grabbing anything within a 10m radius and stashing it between them or in the trolley, and then people look at me rudely for parking my trolley in the centre of the isle!!!
- Going anywhere infact, with twice the amount of stuff needed!
- Dinner time or just before, I so would reccomend getting a vibrating bouncer....

I cant think of anything else too much now, but it really isnt too bad, and it is SO cool now, watching them play together (the 1/3 of the time!!!) etc.