Here’s another great post from guest blogger, Tara, who is sharing her “Baby Mama” perspective with us as she journeys through her 25th week of her second pregnancy.

Gem, my two and a half year old daughter, goes around announcing that she is a big sister now that my husband and I are expecting our second baby. Gem doesn’t really know what it means to be a big sister, but, we have told her that is what she is, and she believes us.

Below are a few of the interesting things we have encountered as we have tried to explain to our toddler the big change that is coming to our family: 

• She seems to understand that the baby is in my “tummy.” We have told her the baby is too little to come live with us yet. We explained to her that when the baby gets bigger it will come out of mommy’s tummy and come home. She obviously got something out of that because when she said her prayers that night she said, “Bless da baby get big da get out da mama’s tummy.”  
• We have told her that the baby will be living in Gem’s room. She is very excited about this stewardship she has been given, and she reminds me at least twice a day that “da baby sleep na Gem’s room.” Even for a while she said the baby was going to sleep in her bed until I explained that the baby is going to have its own baby bed.
• We will be having a little boy, so we decided we probably better explain to Gem that there are two kinds of people in this world: boys and girls. She now knows that daddy is a boy, mommy is a girl, Gem is a girl, and the new baby is a boy. However, if she is asked about anyone else’s gender, she looks at the person in a dumbfounded way for a while until she forgets the question. Clearly she does not understand the boy/girl concept yet.

I realize that nothing can really prepare Gem for the big change that is coming in her life, but it sure is fun to talk about it with her.

Click HERE to read Tara’s previous post.