Tips to Help Mothers Cope With 2 Kids

Yassmine Elsayed

Having a second child might not be only a challenge for mothers, in terms of adding extra duties for her to deliver properly and ontime, but also a challenge in terms of figuring out the best way for coping with two.

Mothers in the BabyCentre Community have shared their advice, and ofered their suggestions over coping with two. Here are some of those suggestions:

You do not really need to go into all arguments, but rather, let the little stuff go, choose your arguments wisely. Does it really matter if they want to wear a blue top with orange shorts and pink shoes? No.

Get prepared for tough feelings. You will feel torn. You will feel guilty. You will feel more tired than you ever did. You’ll probably argue with your partner more too. But it gets better and one day you’ll look back and be impressed that you made it through.

Be open and accept any help that is offered!

Keep being positive. There is always a light at the end of every tunnel.

Abandon doing it all, but talk to your partner about it. Don’t be superwoman. It’s hard.

Early cooking would help, and freeze meals.

Tolerate that your house (and car) is never going to be as clean or tidy as it used to be. Don’t ever clean. If it helps read the poem “housework can wait”.

Don’t feel guilty for using the TV as an entertainment method – if I didn’t, they wouldn’t have any food to eat.

Make sure you’ve got lots of activities handy and keep a potty in your living room. "My toddler ALWAYS wanted to go to the toilet or needed me for something as soon as I sat down to feed the baby!," told by a certain mother.