The past 30 weeks have gone so quickly. The birth of our little bub is creeping up so quickly and I'm starting to worry about how DD will cope emotionally.

She has been quite happy and excited learning about babies and talking about how we will have one soon etc but now its crunch time, bringing home baby things like the new pram and baby seat etc and its caused a few meltdowns... so now I'm nervous about how she will cope.

For example, its like she wants to be the baby. She's obsessed with babies and pretending to be one, she doesn't want her car seat anymore she wants to be in the capsule, she wants to use the new nursery quilts etc... I think it will only get worse once the cot is assembled again and more and more baby things are prepared. We only have 10 weeks or so (maybe 7 or less if DD2 comes as early or earlier than DD1) to paint, carpet, curtains and set up the nursery plus set up DD and DSD's new rooms and DH and my new room so I'm flat out trying to organise things and I find I'm not coping with DD's emotional meltdowns about the baby... how am I going to cope once bub is here?

The other issue is TT. DD swings between wanting to be in nappies (because she is a baby) to refusing to wear a nappy, ripping it off but then refusing to sit on the potty/toilet. It's so strenuous physically, it doesn't seem like it would be but it is, trying to clothe her or unclothe her, or cleaning up messes or helping her up onto the toilet only to have her want to get down but then wanting to get back on 2 seconds later. Seriously its doing my head in!

Anyone have any useful advice that will save my sanity and soothe DD's anxieties? I'm thinking of making an appointment with chn next week to have a chat with her and come up with some ideas.

Sorry no advice. But I feel your nerves, right now we do not have any issues, Jimmy is obsessed with babies he always points them out where he sees them, we even moved him into a new room and a single bed today ( ) the day sleep was a nightmare but he went down without a fuss tonight. But I am really worried that once Little 11 arrives he will decide that he doesn’t like babies at all!

Thankfully I never had any issues with DD when DS was born. Most big things that needed to buy were for her (big girls bed, c***at) so she didn't feel like she was missing out. We made a big deal of her being a big girl and getting a new big girls bedroom. We made it clear to her that we would still love her and play with her and she was aloued to help with the baby. She also came to every appointment, ultrasound and came to visit me in the hospital an hr or so after I had DS.
Having DH home for the first 3 weeks helped her to not feel left out cause he played with her a lot while I was busy feeding DS.
I have no advice for the TTing as DD was trained before DS was born.

At 19 months we haven't come across DS having an issues... Yet!! But I've certainly though about it. He will be almost 2 when #2 arrives, so I really don't know how he will go
I was planning on buying DS his own baby doll as a gift from the baby. So will see how that goes in 4 months I guess!!!