JUGGLING your newborn and other responsibilities can be a lot without having two other tots under four to take care of.
Mum-of-three Poppy Hollins shared an insight into her life five months after giving birth to her son Reggie.
Speaking on the NewlyWeds podcast, the influencer was joined by husband Jay Porter to discuss their lives, including what it’s like raising three young children.
Poppy, 29, joked about how she and Jay, her childhood sweetheart, are now outnumbered by their kids.
“So many people said: ‘The third will just slot in, you won’t even know he’s there’ well, they’re lying,” she told hosts Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo.
“When there’s two, there’s one each, now we don’t have enough hands.”
Jay agreed, explaining that they had been struggling to “balance normal life” on top of parenting, explaining “that it’s a lot harder than we thought.”
He also credited the “good team” they have helping them keep on top of everything, including their editors, PA, and cleaner who also “helps with a bit of nannying.”
“We’ve got a good team behind us and we still really struggle to find time to do anything,” he said.
And while both parents said four-year-old Rosa is “quite a good age,” they described Frankie, two, as “feral.”
They explained that Rosa is “such a good girl” who “just gets on with things” and understands that her baby brother is “delicate.”
On the other hand, they revealed that their middle child has been known to drag the five-month old “by his feet” around the house as he sits on his play mat.
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“This sounds really horrible but if we didn’t have Feral Frankie then everything would sort of work.”
And while the couple said this current period has been “the hardest” of their lives, they still admitted that it hasn’t effected their sex lives.
Discussing what it was like to be intimate after giving birth, Poppy revealed that is can be quite sore down there.
She added that doctors advised her to wait and that she hadn’t been in the mood anyway.
However, her husband disputed the timeline of events post-partum.
“Six weeks in and you were like a flipping dog in heat,” Jay told his wife.
“Yeah but that’s hormones and all sorts going on,” Poppy explained, revealing that baby Reggie came out weighing 10 pounds.
“I think you dip in and out of that, it’s still there.”
She also shared that she had an “all natural” home-birth for her third child.
