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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?

More info: wengchen.wordpress.com | Facebook

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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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MEB
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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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Rebekah
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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.

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

I only have one for now and he has two photo albums filled, two detailed baby books, and a journal i write to him. And he's not even a year yet. Yeah I'm a little over the top.

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

I don't think my parents changed the baby photos that much when I was born cause I'm basically a clone of my sister. I look EXACTLY like her in every stage of my life so far and she's 9 YEARS OLDER

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

It’s sad that I’m an only child but my parents barely have any pictures of me

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

My older brother, heaps of baby photos, my little sister quite a few baby photos, me 3 photos before I reached school age and they were taken by my grandfather

Teddy O'Malley
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm third born and I'm lucky I found any baby pictures of me. My oldest brother has an album full of like...thirty almost identical pictures of him. I think there like five of me. And I'm the only girl!

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

Being born 3rd I can honestly say that there are hardly ANY baby pics of me compared to my older brother and sister!!

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

Hah! As a firstborn I can get this one. My little sister has barely any physical photos of her, but I have books and books of them...

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

why oh why do we do this and when they ask later in life , where are my baby photos and things yes well um ok yea well hey the phone broke and we lost the camera whew

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

This is soooo accurate. I'm firstborn and have many baby books and lots of pics etc. and my sister literally has a few pages in a baby book.

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Kjorn
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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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Sofie S
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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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Pull King
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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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Daniel Sipes
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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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AIA
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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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