pregnant and nervous
I have a step daughter who is five and a husband I love very much. The kid I know cares deep down inside and she does mind sometimes but I possibly thing she is a little add. She can't be still she can't concentrate she is behind in learning for her age. She doesnt flush the toilet she doesnt eat and when she does eat she plays in her food. Alot of the things she does remind me of an animal. She runs through the house and is sometimes uncontrollable. I am sure she would never hurt a person and is a very loving individual. Although somedays she does trap the cat in rooms and hold him hostage and yell and stuff she does pull the heads off of her barbies and babys. He is getting mad at me because I am nervous about some of these things. We are just starting to set the nursery up which was previously our den and kinda like a walk through room you can walk through it and get to the other bedrooms but there are two ways to go. Considering we have the furniture up and stuff I have started keeping the doors up clearly just to keep the cat out and keep anything from hurting the furniture and stuff. She started to walk through the room and I told him to explain to her to go the other way through the living room b/c we don't need to walk through the baby room. He does not understand why he is like well when the baby gets here during the day the doors are always going to be open and that started the convo of how i only wanted one door open because i didnt want everyone running trhough the nursery and messing with the baby and stuff. I then proceeded to tell him we need ot purchase a baby gate for the other door. and he was like why the baby can't walk when it is born. and I told him I would just feel better b/c it would create a little bit of barrier in between sd and the baby when we were sleeping ( i know she can crawl over it) but just for my piece of mind in case she sleep walks. He then gets furious and tells me I dont trust her and stuff I told him you can't trust kids with little babys he told me that was ridiculous. I am sorry I dont want to leave my baby alone with a five year old kid. I am sorry that makes me nervous. I am sorry I am protective over my baby. i mean i dont mind if she plays with it and holds it and whatever else but not unsupervised. She sleep walks and I am just afraid she will sleep walk in there and get the baby. She used to get up in the middle of the night and turn the stove on and stuff. He told me to ask other people with two kids b/c I swas being irrational b/c she wasnt mine. i just want the best for my baby. Do yall agree?
I would wait until the baby
I would wait until the baby is born and try some discipline in the meantime. Has she ever harmed the cat? Wanting to keep it in the room with her and not able to run away is pretty normal. Sounds like she needs a puppy! haha. I've never understood parents who are Allow their children to run amok. Also, I doubt a 5 year old is going to run straight to a newborn for any reason and try to harm it if unsupervised. I would think her priority levels at that point wouldn't rank the newborn very high. Although I'm not sure why you would even need to leave a 5 y/o unsupervised with a newborn. What does she do when she gets out at night now? Or are we just playing "what if"?
cbeckwith - I understand
cbeckwith - I understand about not wanting anyone in the nursery especially before it is even used - I would also put up a gate and quite frankly would not give a shit what my DH said - if you feel even the least bit that something is off with your SD go with that feeling you say she acts like an animal is she going to be starting kindergarten soon and can you get her screened???? - young children do not understand that if they don't like something and try to make it go away that they can really hurt a baby - I would never leave her alone with the baby and I would tell hubby until your baby is born the doors stay closed - this is your first fight for what you want and tell hubby that while this may be his second child it is not your second child and back off - because you are pregnant and will hurt him - lol
And wowoklol - yes a child will hurt a newborn if said child is jealous enough - and it happens quite often - her priority would not be the newborn but what the newborn does to her place in the family and at five she cannot understand that a newborn has to be catered to 24 X 7 and that does create a lot of problems!!
no she does not do too much
no she does not do too much when she wakes up now so I am not too worried. I just feel very protective over my baby. I don't believe she would ever intentionally hurt a baby at all. I just think it might be an accident. She starts school in kindergarten and we are getting her screened. I think alot of it is alot to do with the fact her mom gave her up at age 2 and that creates some emotional stress with the kid. I am just concerned for my baby. with any kid for a matter of fact though I would not leave them in a room alone with a newborn and I dont think dh sees that. Dh sees his perfect little princess as being great with the baby and being able to help with it and take care of it. No kid at age 5 can really take care of a baby much less one thats a little behind. Maybe 15!!! I just feel there is a lot of battles to come between our kid and his kid. Does anyone have a mixed family and had problems with this? how is it? were you nervous when the new baby was on the way