Off the top of my head - I think I want to try cloth diapering #2!
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Not be so hard on daycare in the beginning and relax about milestones.
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Give myself time. DS's dad was not present in the early years, so I did everything on my own. This time I will not hesitate to delegate to DH.
I also plan to do BLW.
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The first one I can think of: making a bottle part of the daily routine. It was so tough having her refuse the bottle, I really hope to make it a part of our daily routine for the next LO
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Be more present in the moment...not stress about things. And hopefully be SAHM
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I will question the doctors more with number 2 and will not let them force me into anything I don't think it right. For example, I KNEW I shouldn't have been induced but I went along with it anyway and baby girl wasn't at all ready to come - she was under 6lb and had a heart murmur that went away after a few weeks.
Apart from that, nothing really.
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Break the nurse to sleep and nap habit.
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Bottle sooner!
and not nurse to sleep
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Don't let the doctors dictate the way my labor goes. I was laboring on my own & yet they gave me pitocin to move it along & despite my insistence that I was fine, they kept offering me pain meds & after being asked so many times I finally gave in..,I wish I hadn't
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Try baby wearing, and give up nursing/pumping sooner if it starts stressing me out.
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Try BF longer before switching to the pump
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Hopefully breastfeeding will work put this time
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Not worry about nursing to sleep or any other "bad" sleep associations.
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Set a sleep routine sooner and more baby wearing. I didn't do well with baby wearing with LO. I'm hoping that the second one will be worn more and will go out more because of it.
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Start pumping earlier to build my supply as much as possible before returning to work so its hopefully less stressful to keep up!
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Baby wearing, not getting so anxious when they cry, establish good sleep habits from the very beginning.
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Not stress so much about everything. I also hope breast feeding works out, but if it doesn't I don't want to be hard on myself again.
Other than that I'll probably do most everything else the same again - good and bad
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I hope to be more laid back. I already am compared to the beginning (phew!). I literally broke my back running around when she was newborn.
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@Cherrybee: me too! This one nurse made me pump and feel like there was some huge problem when there wasn't. I will be much more assertive. We were vulnerable!
@Rubies: me too about the crying. I *think* I have learned to chill... a little bit...
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Pump more consistently and have DH give a bottle more often.
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@Greentea: Laid back is key for me. I feel like I've calmed down a lot since LO's newborn crying and colic. If you can survive colic, it makes toddler tantrums seem easy. I'm surprised by how I manage the tantrums better than I thought I would. Newborn-hood as a first timer was so scary and new. Once things starting making sense, I laid back.
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Start a loose sleep routine from the beginning.
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Keep LO in my room longer than 8 weeks. I got so much pressure from everyone to move A into her own room, I'm not giving in this next time.
Introduce a bottle every few days so she gets used to it, and doesn't refuse it.
Let peoples advice go in one ear and out the other. I let it get to me so much last time. "Don't breastfeed it hurts", "put rice cereal in her bottle", "start solids"...I'm the parent, I will make these choices when I feel it's right.
Sleep train sooner
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Not stress out if baby is fussy, try to breastfeed, and taking better care of myself. So far so good. Just have to find a way to care for myself better.
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Not letting number 2 nap/sleep in our bed.
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@cascademom: I feel the same way! Newborn colic and sleep deprivation. .. man I can do anything!
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@cascademom: I want to baby wear too... but my ergo hurt my breasts... I hope to figure something out!
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Be more assertive about my delivery and speak up when I don't feel right about something. With Lo, the midwife kept yanking on my placenta to get it to come out, rather than giving it a bit more time to get it to detach. She literally ripped it. A week later a big chunk of placenta that was still in there finally came out. I don't even want to think about how much danger of bleeding out I was in as a result. Just thankful to God that I was ok in the end. Still thinking of saying something to the hospital about it.
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Definitely establish better sleep habits earlier.
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@scotchbonnet: That's so scary. Glad you're okay!
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Baby wearing, work on keeping up my supply, not be so harsh on DH, try to take more pictures.
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Start pumping earlier and maybe even pump some before work so DH can give bottles, relax about daycare, eat more to keep up supply, get a good soft structure wrap to wear sooner.
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Go to bed earlier
Take more photos of baby and me
Try baby-wearing
Be far more relaxed and worry less -
Worry less, breastfeed longer, more baby wearing in the beginning!
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Breastfeed longer for sure! Crib sleep right away.
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Start pumping earlier, have DH take care of bedtime duties, worry less about milestones, not rush solids. Basically stress out less!
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@pinkcupcake: We just started cloth diapering (my son is almost 8 months old), and I've been pleasantly surprised by it - it's nowhere near as complicated as I was expecting. We've only been doing it for a couple of weeks and I feel like I've got the hang of it already.
Breastfeed longer, which luckily should be much easier to do as far as production goes since I'm a SAHM now! My job was terrible about pumping breaks.
Stop sleeping in the same room as LO much sooner! I can't even believe how much better my sleep got when every little noise he made in his sleep stopped waking me up.
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Take more time for my marriage. Those first few months were rough on us as a couple. I want to preserve the strength and devotion we've found since DD was born by getting out alone more and stressing less about what needs to happen around the house.
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Have more time as just our family after birth. We had so many visitors at the hospital that I left early because it was stressing me out. Then when we got home we had even more. I didn't know how to say no or get out, so I think next time we may choose not to have anyone visit us for a week!
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Honestly, probably go straight to formula. Breastfeeding was nothing but stress and heartache and bottle feeding has a lot of perks.
Get help IMMEDIATELY when I start feeling depressed postpartum. I should never have tried to stick it out on my own this time around.
I also want to do placenta encapsulation, for the above mentioned reason. Im willing to try anything to avoid PPD again.
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