Second Kid Scaries
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Lucy Lopez and Elizabeth Newcamp help Slate senior producer, Cheyna Roth, prepare to bring home her second child. They talk about everything from preventing sibling jealousy to handling two crying children at once. Then they answer a question from a prospective parent who is worried they’ll never sleep well again.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:04.8 | This is Karen Feeding. We're three friends with kids who get together every week. We talk |
| 0:09.9 | life. We swap advice. We keep each other sane while we muddle through this weird and wonderful |
| 0:14.8 | thing called parenting. I'm Lucy Lopez. I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery who's 13, and we live in Miami. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I'm mom to Henry, who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 9. |
| 0:28.3 | We live in Honolulu, Hawaii. I'm Shana Roth. I'm filling in for fellow |
| 0:33.1 | Michigander Zach Rosen this week. I'm the producer of Karen Feeding and other shows here at Slate. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm the mom to a five and a half year old daughter and I am super pregnant. Like, will I go into labor during this recording? |
| 0:45.3 | Who knows? Stick around. That would be an episode to watch on YouTube. We're here to talk about the ups, the downs, and literally everything in between when it comes to parenting. |
| 0:56.9 | Every week we commiserate, we check in with listeners, and we try to make this feel like the kind of conversation you would have with your friends. |
| 1:04.2 | And of first today, we're talking about me. |
| 1:06.9 | Again, kind of. |
| 1:08.4 | If you listen to Thursday's episode, you know that I'm all stressed about having a second kid. |
| 1:13.2 | And we've basically made my fill in time for Zach an unofficial baby week. So we're going to talk about having a second kid. |
| 1:20.9 | What changes? What doesn't? How do you make sure you and your spouse don't just become roommates now that you no longer outnumber the kids? |
| 1:27.2 | If you're stressing about having multiples, don't worry, we got you. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, mostly Lucy and Elizabeth got you, but I have some thoughts too. |
| 1:34.6 | After that, we have a listener question about sleep. |
| 1:37.5 | She's thinking about having kids, but is really worried about what she's seeing online with lots of parents saying they never sleep |
| 1:45.2 | through the night even after five and ten years. We have a lot to say about that. She's got to |
| 1:51.9 | log off. She totally has to log off. Absolutely. Listen, stick around. We're going to be right |
| 1:57.4 | back. right back. |
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