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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here. Yeah, my second baby was so so easy. I was like, oh, this is why people keep having babies.[/quote]

NP. Lol, same experience here. There's a reason why there are 5.5 years between my two kids. But when DS2 was a baby, I was convinced we should have a third right away. He was the easiest baby. I earned him!

OP,  my high needs baby was challenging all the way through childhood, in one way or another. The teen years were hard emotionally--he was so argumentative and sometimes really difficult to get along with--but we didn't have any problems with drugs, drinking, truancy, depression, major defiance--none of the big teen worries. He's now 23 and has turned out wonderfully-- graduated from college, working a good job, in a relationship with a lovely young woman--doing great. He's very close with DH, me, and DS2, and with my parents, whom he adores. He's really a great person. Still intense. Still struggles with anxiety, though he manages well with behavioral techniques. Looking back, I'm convinced that many of his childhood behavior issues were rooted in anxiety. But he also was just convinced from an early age that he was a grownup and he chafed at a world that treated him like a child. I think he was happier in high school because he was finally being treated more like an adult and he had more control.

My DS2 is 18 now, and he's still easy as pie.[/quote]

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