There is something different about having a second baby…it’s not that he/she is cared for less, but some things aren’t as big of a deal as they were the first time around.
Maybe it’s because you don’t have as much time to obsess. Maybe it’s because you learn the baby is not as fragile as you thought he/she was. Maybe it’s because you have to put the baby down and wipe a preschooler’s booty after the poo he did because he is potty training.
For us, Charlie learned to wait much earlier than Eddie did. From the first day Charlie was home from the hospital, he had to wait while we got Eddie his dinner or wait to be held because we were cleaning up a potty training accident.