Kids, are they equal?

Newborn babies cry a lot, at least so ‘they’ say.

We were alone with the newborn last night, as my eldest wanted to stay with his grandma, and in true second child spirit, so did the toddler.

So my husband and I were alone with the baby, and he really cried a lot (the baby, not my husband)… even from the time that I left my mom’s house with him… did he miss his brothers? Although it was his feeding time, and I felt guilty about starving him just so that we can get home a little earlier, I really wondered if he was missing his eldest brother’s constant chatter while in the van… He cried a bit before he went to sleep… and then he cried a lot this morning… my husband’s answer is to give him a pacifier and put him in his crib! My actual words to my husband were “pretend that he is a newborn baby”…

I guess that it is just natural that we give less attention to the children that come after the first one… I guess its not very fair… I guess that we should treat them equally… I guess we really can only try to do the best we can…

My grandmother has a really wise saying, she had 9 kids and when asked about which one she liked best, her answer’s always the same… she says “I have 5 fingers and they are all different, but if you cut off any one, would the pain not be the same?”

It seems like its true… we can only really appreciate our parents when we become parents ourselves!