To any of you that have had more then one kid, did you find that you got stupider after the second? Er in other words jes forgit EVERTHIN you did wit the first one? What worked, what didn't what to try what not to bother wit etc? After the second one did you start runnin round like a chicken wit it's head cut off? I don't ask meanly, jes curious. I've seen it happen an I find it a very interestin deal. Maybe hormones er sumthin to do wit the brain er maybe you lose to much of your brain after the first one er sumthin I donno. But it seems to me, you should learn more.. not less after more then one kid.

For starters, I never was "stupid" as you put so subtly....:cheeky: so no, I never got stupider! :lol:
I did learn lots with my firstborn, but with the second baby, things were TOTALLY different than with the first one. He was a different baby and had different needs. Then along came the third....gotta say, she was an easy baby.

I wouldn't say stupider ...But with two small children who hvae to have all their needs met by you, and can't do anything for themselves (well, nothing that really helps you out much) you get a little frazzled..Ok..a lot frazzled. They are making their demandds of you all day and oftentimes all night long. Wipe butts-make lunches-prepare bottles-clean up spills( or whatever other mess is bound to happen) give baths, be wailed at by a baby who seems to be laouder and louder by the second, not to mention wash the laundry, do the dishes, sweeop the floors, etc, etc, etc, ...

Adding children, especially when they are close in age(5 and younger in my experience) increases the work load and deman on mom and with all the kid stuff going on and the demands of just keeping house and feeding your husband etc..You do or at least I often get quite scatterbrained. I forget the simplest things because my mind is constatnly distracted with the children and their needs, the house and its needs, the bills, the husbadn and the stress that often arises between us, peanut butter smeared all over Isaac just because he eats, Elijah and his massive bowel movements, Anneliese and hjer lesons, the litter box, the bird seed under the cage, the kitchen needs to be mopped, the counters cleaned, dang it the toilet too........and on and on and on and on ./...Ther is no way to keep a straight mind when all this is piled on top of you and you are expected to be supermom adn getr it all done....................

NO...more children mean more demands mean more stress, which means more difficulty remembering etc...

When the kids get older things calm down because they can wipe their own butts. They no longer wear the diapers. They can do the dishes. They can do the litter box. They can help out and take some of the burden of mom adn mom becomes a happier, less stressed, more peaceful person...

My oldest is almost 6 and as she is becoming more able to hold her own the baby is becoming more demanding with potty training, and self feeding etc...I often want to just up and run away and take a few dyas off.....

Wow...I wrote a lot...hmmm..You'd figure I had feelings about this or something..... :dunno:

Nope. My kiddo's are 2 years apart and I remembered everything that I did with the first and then with the second...
I guess I'm just EXTRA SMART! :thanks: :tease:

Nah, it just means your kids are boring! :cheeky:


J/K!!!!!!!! :tease:

Yes!