Advice on preparing kids for newborns

Blogger and author Adrian Kulp offers tips on how to prepare your toddler and older children for the birth of a new sibling
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Advice on preparing kids for newborns

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Preparing our kids for a new baby has always been a concern of my wife and I. I know that one thing we did specifically was to rent a Doppler kit or a fetal Doppler, which is simply a little handheld device that allows you to record and amplify the fetal heartbeat while it’s still inside mommy’s tummy. So every night after bathtime we allowed the kids to run the Doppler across mommy’s belly and listen to the heart beat of our unborn child. And explained to them that this was going to be their brother and sister. And bring them into the excitement of the pregnancy. And I think it really worked. I think they were extremely excited every night to be able to do that. It became a little bit of a routine. I think another thing as we got closer to the actual delivery was we knew that this was going to be a celebration for our unborn son. And we didn’t want the other kids to feel left out. So we had picked them up a few little presents along the way and saved some of them for the actual delivery at the hospital so they didn’t feel left out and they felt like they were part of something bigger. It wasn’t just all the attention going to this new baby. But we were all putting our attention towards this new child.

Blogger and author Adrian Kulp offers tips on how to prepare your toddler and older children for the birth of a new sibling

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Adrian Kulp

Author & Blogger of Dad or Alive

Adrian Kulp is a stay-at-home dad for three kids under the age of 7.  His popular blog, ‘Dad or Alive’ helped him procure a deal at Penguin Publishing, titled Dad or Alive: Confessions of an Unexpected Stay-at-home Dad.  He also writes for The Huffington Post and is preparing a comedic lecture based on his transition into fatherhood. Adrian is a former TV executive both for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison and Chelsea Handler’s Borderline Amazing Productions, as well as the comic booker for ‘The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’ on CBS. Adrian's feature article 'Breaking Binky' was recently published in the February 2017 issue of Parents Magazine. This spring, he was nominated for a Shorty Award in Parenting, as well as an IRIS Award for 'Dad Blog of the Year' at the annual Mom 2.0 Summit held in Orlando.

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