#3-I don't think so. . .
My online board that I'm part of for girls that were due in July of 2007 are wonderful. We have been able to help and support each other through all the stages our kids have gone through. A bunch of us still are in contact and they were guessing who would be next to have their third child (other than one that's PG with twins right now). The over all vote was for me because I seem to be handling two so well. Little do they know! This is what I responded with:LOL You girls are too funny!!! Seriously I would love to stop breastfeeding when I want to or LM is finished and not be PG. It killed me to nurse while PG so it will be a while before I get PG. DH would like to wait awhile (3 years or be finished all together) but I don't want to wait as long as he does so we will see. I guess if no one else wants another in 2 years then I may be the next one but I think a surprise will pop up.
It's also taken forever to heal from having LM. All the pain and healing process took 3.5 months I believe. I still don't feel that I'm back to normal after my epesiodomy and tearing. The labor is still VERY fresh in my head too and that will need to go away before I'm psychologically ready to go through that again!
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Discipline. . .
One thing I try to remind myself is that some times DD does things just to see how I will react to it and where her boundaries are. She's done something similar with wanting something then not but really still wanting it. I tend to offer it. She says no and then when she wants it again I may offer one more time but after that when she's refused it I tell her this is her last chance and she has the choice to have it or not. Once she decides then that's it and she may throw a fit but I tell her she made the choice and she'll have a chance again some other time for _____. If the fit is terrible then I place her in her room for a cool down and tell her she can come out when she's ready because we don't want to hear her scream. If she comes out and is still throwing a fit I pick her up and return her to her room and tell her she has to be calm (not crying) to come out of her room. She will calm down and either she comes out or I go to her room and tell her what a great job she did calming down and that she can come out now. It's worked the few times we have used it so far.Discipline. . .
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Breastfeeding #2
For me the cramping wasn't worse but better. I would have to contribute that to the wonderful advice of my mother's to massage my uterus down on my own every hour after I gave birth until my bleeding was almost nothing (I did this the whole time I was in the hospital). It was wonderful.
DD wasn't jealous at first of the baby but then later on was and then wasn't and now is again. I generally would find a show for her to watch on TV to help distract her or give her a snack in her chair so she's stuck until I get her so she's can't destroy everything while I'm feeding LM which she has done sometimes. She would also want to sit on my lap and would push the babies legs off to sit down or would just sit down on him.
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