May 2018 Moms
cuppylove
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I recently found out that baby #2 (& most likely last baby) is another boy. I am so excited and overjoyed, but I also have this slight sad feeling about the fact that I'll never get to experience having a little girl.
I know there are definite ups and downs to raising both genders, but I'd love to hear from other mothers of boys...
-What surprised you about parenting only boys?
-What are some struggles and successes you've experienced?
-What are your words of advice?
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Question for STMs & beyond ... being a mother of boys
cuppylove
member
I recently found out that baby #2 (& most likely last baby) is another boy. I am so excited and overjoyed, but I also have this slight sad feeling about the fact that I'll never get to experience having a little girl.
I know there are definite ups and downs to raising both genders, but I'd love to hear from other mothers of boys...
-What surprised you about parenting only boys?
-What are some struggles and successes you've experienced?
-What are your words of advice?
Re: Question for STMs & beyond ... being a mother of boys
*I realize all of this can be true of girls also! We have plenty of friends that have girls that act exactly the same way.
This will be our last as DH doesn't want more. My boys are so energetic and fun. They are each quite different in character. I joke that even if we had a girl, she would just join in with the boys, so I really don't think it would make that much difference while they're little!
My heart would really love to buy some baby dresses though! Lol
What surprised me?
The farting. So much farting. And butts and penises and potty jokes are HILARIOUS. Also poop. Nothing funnier than a good poop joke. I guess I figured if we didn't make a big deal about laughing about farting and pooping then it wouldn't be? WRONG. So very wrong. WHY IS IT SO FUNNY??
Struggles and Successes?
Potty training was such a struggle. Boy thing- I don't know- totally could be just my kids but they felt no real need to take time away from playing to go to the bathroom when they could just do it in their diaper and get changed when it was more convenient for them.
But they do love love playing together and that's been really fun to watch. They have each others back and it's really sweet. I love hearing them call each other "my brother". They are super close, though that is probably more the age gap than the gender.
Advice-
Embrace it! Get a Costco membership cause they're going to eat you out of house and home. And prepare for wrestling matches and broken lamps (according to the older one it was the dog- not buying it) and fireplaces (they cracked the glass on the fireplace playing "soccer academy"). But truly, I wouldn't trade my boys for anything and I would have no problem if the third is a boy too.
My one rant is that everyone seems to think it's he end of the world if we have another boy and if one more person says "I hope you get your girl" I'm going to lose it!
My friends with older kids say that in middle school there is so much drama with the girls, but not much with the boys.
The people I know who only had boys go nuts with girl clothes as gifts for other people. That seems to be the big thing they feel they missed out on.
edited because I repeated myself. So tired. Good night!