More and more modern mothers decide to give birth to the second kid, without returning from a vacation on care for the first child. At someone it turns out to become pregnant accidentally, and someone purposefully wants children with a small age difference. Maternity capital stimulates many on such step too. Though young mom does not manage to forget all nuances connected with emergence in family of the little person to it yet it is necessary to be prepared and consider some new moments
Where to the newborn to sleep?
This question rises very first. The berth of the second child has to be surely protected from the senior. He can by negligence or out of jealousy to offend the baby. Stability of a bed - its important characteristic in such situation. If in its design there are wheels, then function of their fixing is obligatory. Otherwise the first child will simply roll a bed on all room.
It is better to put a bed or a cradle in the room in advance that the senior child managed to play with it, got used to it. Then with the birth of the brother or little sister it is less than the probability that his bed will attract rough interest of the first child.
Where to leave the awake baby?
Mom of two small children constantly needs free hands. When the kid one, is an opportunity to long hold him on hands. And here with two children it is already difficult, the attention is required to both. For example, the senior should be supported, and younger does not sleep and is capricious therefore he should be taken on kitchen.
It is obligatory for mom to provide places where she will leave the baby. It is convenient to use a sun bed. In the kid is mute it is fastened, cannot drop out, and from own movements itself will rock to sleep. The autocradle with a flat bottom will be suitable for such purposes too.
As a last resort at first it is possible to use carrying. But in it the kid freely turns and can drop it from a chair. So it is only a temporary measure.
Arena
Too not excess furniture in the nursery - an arena. Since the moment as the baby will begin to turn over and creep in it very conveniently to leave it. Walls of an arena will not allow the baby to be left to the dangerous place and also will protect from the senior child. If baby to put simply on a floor, his brother or the little sister can step on it.
Ergo-ryukzak or baby sling
When mom with both is going to get to go somewhere, free hands are extremely necessary for her. Sooner or later it is necessary to go to policlinic or to shop with both children. On this case it is worth getting a baby sling or an ergo-backpack. So mom will be able quietly to lead by the hand of the senior or to dress him when younger sleeps peacefully or look around in the safe place - at it on a body.
Carriage
As soon as the woman knows about pregnancy by the second child, better to be engaged in it in breaking of the first child from a carriage. The earlier he will get used to go own legs, the better. If he till the birth of the second kid goes in a carriage, it will become then a big problem. Mom will not be able just to walk with both children.
These are the most important points which should be considered at appearance of the second child in family with a small difference from the first. Other problems can be solved in process of growing of both children.