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[quote=Anonymous]OP, did you breastfeed your first child?  Was that part of why it was so hard with a newborn?

This is just my personal experience, and I'm sure not true for everyone, but I personally found breastfeeding the first one time consuming and exhausting -- there was a steep learning curve for me.  And what I also found was that it all came a LOT easier with the second one.   I had already mastered so many things, and the milk also came a lot more quickly -- it was like my body knew more what to do.   I had already mastered the art of using a sling (so I could nurse the baby while walking around).

It took about 2 weeks to physically recover and get nursing established, and then I was more or less back to normal... carrying the baby many places in the sling while I took the older child out and about.  Even so I had a lot of help for the first 6 weeks.   Other moms in our neighborhood made meals for us 2 or 3 x a week and we had also prepped a lot of easy freezer dinners.   My husband took 2 weeks off, and each grandma came for 2 weeks so I had help for a total of 6 weeks and that got me through the toughest part.  They also cooked meals and put some in the freezer.  The baby did sleep most of the day at first and that helped.

Also I spent a LOT less time thinking about "stimulating" the newborn -- I just let her watch her older brother for interesting things to do!   And I spent a lot less time worrying than I did with my first born.   If the baby was sleeping, I was doing housework -- or playing with the toddler.

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