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Hi mmmon,
Dont worry, I know how your feeling about the whole 'other child' thing, my initial worry was my other two kids. Still being so young my daughter (3) is quite a head strong and the jelous type. We have spoken to both of them recently and explained that we are all going to have 2 more babies soon. We told them that they can help bath them and feed them and that I will need lots of their help. They seemed quite excited about the prospect of me 'needing' them. I also let them feel the babies kicking, I actually play a game where my little boy puts his ear up against my belly and I pretend that the babies are kicking so hard that hey fling his head back.....he laughs his head off. I guess some things work for certain children and not others. Your little boy is still very young, so was my little boy when I had my daughter. He was also 17 months and you will be very suprised how well he adapts. My family had to be very careful not to give my new born daughter all the attention and to conciously involve him in everything when they were around. You will cope fine, I honestly beleive that twins only happen for the mums who can truely handle it. I am very anxious about having 4 under 5 years old, my oldest won't even be in school yet, but I will look back in years to come and know that I did everything that I thougth was right at the time.

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