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Parents know, that there are some quite big differences between having your first and second children. From different approaches to pregnancy, to slightly different ways the kids are raised once born. And these changes were beautifully illustrated by Weng Chen - an incredible artist, VR game designer and a mom from China, currently living in the US.

Weng Chen was always close to the world of art. "When I was about 2, 3 years old, my mom drew me a little mermaid and told me the story," she wrote on her website. "I was fascinated, it was like magic that the most beautiful picture just came from my mom’s pen. I believe that was when I fell in love with drawing and storytelling."

Now she focuses on drawing comics about her dreams and daily lives raising her two daughters, Electra, the firstborn, and Ali, the secondborn, together with her husband. "Messycow comics were started with an impulse. I didn’t spend any time designing anything, just dove in and started drawing."

Her latest series of comics explain the differences between the firstborn and the secondborn children and the strips are hilarious. What do you think?

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Lenka Čábalová
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly the same situation here with my first born toddler... am I a bad mother? :D

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Beth Arriaga
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Not a bad mother at all. Realistic. My grandma used to often say, 'God made dirt. Dirt can't hurt.' Not sure if the scientific evidence, but it made sense. Lol

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor firstborn child, he is going to have LOT of allergies.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's this joke... When your dog took the first kid's pacifier, you wash it with detergent and boil for an hour, then give it back to the kid. When the dog took the second kid's pacifier, you lick it thoroughly and give it back to the kid. When the dog took the third kid's pacifier, it the kid's problem to get it back.

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Kami
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine are never ill, and I'm not good with cleaning :p

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Mike Allen
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know it's wrong because parents take basically zero pictures of their second child

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Heather Bateman
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BECAUSE THERE'S NO TIME!! By then the first born is a toddler and acting like a lunatic, so it's all you can do to keep them from committing suicide 5,124 times a day! Or at least that was my humble experience... ;D

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's healthy to expose your child to germs and dirt because it strengths their immune system, also to flowers and such. Taking the kids to a farm periodically can help as well.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, when I was younger I didn’t have a lot of boundaries concerning germs because my mom was a nurse and she knew that contact with germs strengthens the immunity towards it

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am currently pregnant with our first, which is also gonna be our last because of my age. Yesterday, Dear Husband and I have seen baby on the ultrasound and since then, he's been floating on a blissfull cloud, telling everyone he meets (even strangers!) about his unpreceded and boundless happiness. Guess who gets to wear a crown for the next 5 months? :)

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My first born has an actual baby book, with locks of his first cut hair, growth stats., etc. My second... well, he's fine.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

parent didn't realise that often kids prefer the simplest toy. my older one got 1 plastic with truck we bought in in a dollar store... he kept it almost 4 years

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happened to me, and I felt worthless as a mother for not being able to breastfeed. You can only try so much, and in the end what really counts is that the baby is being fed somehow and is healthy. I had to bottle feed him for his survival. I do think it's great when you can breastfeed your child, but sometimes you have to let go of some of your beliefs. Even though I had never thought about it, apparenltly, I as a new mother believed that a real mother has to breastfeed her child, or else she is not a "complete" mother. But now just see it as a true mother does what is best for her child, which in this case is giving the child enough nutrition no matter if it comes from a breast or bottle. Nobody wins a special prize for being able to do it the "natural" way. I'll never say I'm "pro" this or that. It hurt to be reminded by people that breast was the best when it didn't work in my situation even though i really wanted it to.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A baby will love y our food.. a toddler will hate u even if it is a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meal

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a middle child and this is PAINFULLY relatable. I had walking pneumonia once and could barely breath one night due to all the congestion in my lungs. My parents didn't believe I was actually having trouble breathing and assumed I was just panicking. If my grandfather didn't have an oximeter on him, my family probably would have let me stay at home and I would have died of oxygen deprivation. :|

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's still the same pic of the first born child -didn't bother to replace it

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