I read the blog here daily, and have been struggling with something and thought I would sign up and post.

I have a daughter who is a year old and in two months will be having a son. I'm really struggling with guilt about not just bringing a sibling into the picture (and not having all my time with my daughter) but also, due to her age, not being able to explain it to her. I'm feeling so awful that she doesn't have the experience of getting excited to be a big sister. I'm just going to disrupt her world with no warning and it is really weighing on me. If she was older we would have been talking about it, and perhaps reading books about bringing home a baby... but at 1 year old how can I prepare her?

Any advice is appreciated.