I'm starting to feel like my 12 month old daughter knows more than I've been assuming she'd be able to.
She is recently OBSESSED with my belly. She's always pulling my shirt up and patting my belly or poking my belly button. She likes to put her mouth on me and "talk" to my belly, or blow raspberries (always starting from up top where this little dude's feet are, slowly working her way down). She sometimes will lay her head on my stomach and just start laughing and laughing, and she doesn't seem to care at all if I'm interacting with her- she's not laughing for my benefit.
She also in the last week or so wants to nurse all the time (no changes there- I haven't had milk since she was 6 months old). She wants to be skin to skin as much as possible, she'll take off her clothes (or try to) and pull my shirt up and snuggle. She wants to sleep in what was her favorite position as a tiny baby (in the crook of my arm, or sprawled across my chest with her hand down my shirt).
I'm 34 weeks today. It just occurred to me tonight (after she REFUSED to go to bed until she patted my belly and gave it a few raspberries) that maybe she's picking up on this new kid somehow? Maybe she knows something I don't?
Has anyone else had a young child seem to understand pregnancy, or not be surprised after when a new sibling comes home (or is born at home, or whatever the case may be)? They say animals can tell these things, and they say children are closer to the angels so maybe there's some truth to it?
Or maybe I'm just panicked by this new level of neediness and have no idea how to cope with a toddler who insists on sleeping on me and nursing 24/7 and a newborn who'll need the same thing. Ahhh!
This is probably really random... I should really be in bed!
She is recently OBSESSED with my belly. She's always pulling my shirt up and patting my belly or poking my belly button. She likes to put her mouth on me and "talk" to my belly, or blow raspberries (always starting from up top where this little dude's feet are, slowly working her way down). She sometimes will lay her head on my stomach and just start laughing and laughing, and she doesn't seem to care at all if I'm interacting with her- she's not laughing for my benefit.
She also in the last week or so wants to nurse all the time (no changes there- I haven't had milk since she was 6 months old). She wants to be skin to skin as much as possible, she'll take off her clothes (or try to) and pull my shirt up and snuggle. She wants to sleep in what was her favorite position as a tiny baby (in the crook of my arm, or sprawled across my chest with her hand down my shirt).
I'm 34 weeks today. It just occurred to me tonight (after she REFUSED to go to bed until she patted my belly and gave it a few raspberries) that maybe she's picking up on this new kid somehow? Maybe she knows something I don't?
Has anyone else had a young child seem to understand pregnancy, or not be surprised after when a new sibling comes home (or is born at home, or whatever the case may be)? They say animals can tell these things, and they say children are closer to the angels so maybe there's some truth to it?
Or maybe I'm just panicked by this new level of neediness and have no idea how to cope with a toddler who insists on sleeping on me and nursing 24/7 and a newborn who'll need the same thing. Ahhh!
This is probably really random... I should really be in bed!
