Giving birth in April. Who watches our toddler?
I’m about to start my third trimester and this issue is stressing me out more than everything else combined. Any advice would be appreciated.
Long story short, my husband and I have a soon to be three year old son and we’re expecting our second child in late April.
We have no family or good friends around because we now live in a separate state from everyone else. My son also doesn’t go to daycare since I’m a SAHM. We don’t even have a babysitter since we’ve never felt comfortable hiring someone we didn’t know either personally or from word of mouth of someone else we knew.
Now that it’s time to have our second, we’re extremely worried and confused on how to navigate childcare when it’s time for me to deliver. My husband obviously wants to be there for the birth and I can’t imagine doing it on my own, but I don’t know what we’re supposed to do when it’s just the two of us and someone needs to be watching our son. We’re open to all options (babysitters and daycares included) but even that doesn’t seem to solve the urgent, on-demand, overnight nature of the situation.
Has anyone else ever been in this situation? If you don’t have friends or family to help out, what are you supposed to do with your firstborn when it’s time to give birth to your second?