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I agree with this. I also think that the sleep deprivation that goes along with having babies can REALLY skew your perception of how easy or hard it is, and I think parents of older kids are very quick to forget just how awful sleep deprivation is. I'm only barely out of that stage (youngest is 2, oldest is 6) and even I have already forgotten the true misery of sleep deprivation - I just remember that I felt unhappy, but not actually what it felt like. [/quote]

That is a very real reason why DD is an only.  There is a reason sleep deprivation is considered torture.[/quote]

I ended up in therapy when my youngest was around 5 months old and every single week I would go sob on my therapist's couch, and every single week she would tell me that once I could sleep again I would feel better. She was right. Once my youngest got down to one wakup/night I stopped therapy.

I felt like a zombie, like a shell of my former self. I couldn't cope with minor setbacks, I couldn't find happiness in my  day to day, I felt physically ill and nauseated all of the time. I injured myself a few times, I snapped at my husband, my boss, my kids. I cried ALL THE TIME. I remember the tunnel vision most vividly, I would be trying to read something at work and the whole world would just start collapsing in on me. It was truly and honestly the worst 6 months of my life and when people with older kids tell me it's harder for them now I feel rage. [/quote]

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