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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 273 | How to Transition into a Growing Family

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9729 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss being a growing family.

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0:00.0

that's exciting. Like, oh, guys, we've got a new team member. And so that's going to, you know,

0:04.2

you get to help mommy or help daddy with this and that.

0:11.9

What's up, guys? Jeff and Jeremy here, another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Great question

0:16.0

from our community today. And that's from Joe. I believe it's Freudenberg, I think. Let me know if

0:20.7

I mispronounce that wrong. I believe it's Freudenberg, I think. Let me know if I

0:20.8

mispronounce that wrong. But yes, great question that you brought to us. Common thing

0:26.8

as transitioning from into a growing family that's growing bigger and bigger years,

0:30.4

specifically was top tips for transitioning from two to three kids. My wife, Caitlin, is due

0:35.7

in 10 days. Rhythms are already deteriorating as she is

0:38.7

unable to do most cleaning, cooking, et cetera. We are putting plans in place for me to take on

0:43.1

some of these things and asking for help from family friends, but would love some additional

0:46.8

thoughts from you guys and others in the group on how to navigate delivery newborn stage

0:50.3

with two littles who still need our love and attention appreciate you both okay

0:55.5

great question i'll try to give our quick rundown on how we did this now basically first thing is

1:02.1

you have to have a plan of attack uh meaning like you have to have a strategy don't try to just be

1:07.0

reactive be proactive and it comes down to certain resources you want to deploy,

1:11.6

if you want to dig into certain finances or not, if you want to try to save more, if it's already strapped. There's so many different ways. I'll give you ours that really help. So we had, I would say going from two to three was the easiest for us, simply because I felt like we felt the most strategic, because it was the easiest, but it felt like finally we got our plan right.

1:28.7

And so a couple of things that we were ready for that did work really. strategic not because it was the easiest but it felt like finally we got our plan right

1:27.8

and so a couple things that we were ready for that did work really well one is we were

1:33.2

ready for me to give a to really tag team and kind of divide and conquer a little bit

1:38.7

more than usual we're like okay Alyssa's on total baby duty and I'm on total

1:42.8

toddler duty so 99% of the time,

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