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From 1 to 100, what they don't tell you about baby number 2

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Nico and I took a while to decide if and when to have a second baby. We felt really lucky with our first, besides the first three months which completely turned my life upside down, she slept, she ate, she smiled, she grew, she's smart, she's a joy. We wondered what if the second one wasn't? Then there was the whole moving of countries, spending all our savings, not finding jobs right away, adjusting to life in a new country and basically getting really used to life as three. Finally we made the decision and what felt like in a blink of an eye we went from three to four. Only it felt a lot more like from one child to one hundred. In all those years of contemplating number two, the nine months of pregnancy, not one person, friend or foe, mentioned that the second baby would be harder. Noone. SO when it was....well I was just shocked. Then suddenly everyone I knew with more than one child started chiming in about how hard number 2 was. Like litteraly, my OBGYN, friends of fri...