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It’s a unique kind of sleep deprivation

• katzenversteher 2y ago
  Indeed. I absolutely love my daughter but I think having her made me and my wife feel at least 10 years older. I always wanted two kids but now it makes me afraid and I honestly believe I would not survive a second one. At least not a similar like my daughter. She's super cute, intelligent and active but also extremely demanding and had a lot of problems with dermatitis, tummy aches, KISS syndrome and other stuff that made her not sleep well and cry a lot (and she's super loud). It also made me respect single parents 10000 times more than before. I can't imagine handling a situation like that alone.
  • interludead 2y ago
    I totally get the respect for single parents; it’s mind-blowing how they manage
  • nkrisc 2y ago
    I can tell you that the challenges of raising kids does not scale linearly with child count, it’s exponential.
  • anonfornoreason 2y ago
    I thought the same as you and delayed having a second kid as a result. Ended up having two more. The second kid was so much different than the first, slept fine, is way more emotionally regulated, etc. I regret my fear based decision making to delay. The third kid is somewhere between the first two. Fear based decisions don’t always lead to the best outcomes, though I am in no way dismissing the fear :)