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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That many of the people trying to convince me my life would be a certain way going forward were full of it.

1.  We sleep trained and my kid is an excellent sleeper

2.  Weekly babysitter means I still have fun with my husband

3.  I lost all of the baby weight.  My body is actually better.

4.  My house isn’t full of kids stuff [/quote]

Genuine question, do you only have one kid? I was exactly like this with one kid and REALLY full of myself. My second kid was a huge dose of humility. I'm an exhausted frumpy loser mom now.

I mean this sincerely, if you value all of these things about yourself I highly recommend stopping after one kid. I thought that since one kid came so easily to me and H that the second would also be easy but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I love her but man she turned my whole world upside down. [/quote]

I wasn’t saying that any of this came easy to me.  You missed the point.

1.  I will sleep train a second kid just like the first.

2.  There’s no reason we can’t still hire babysitters.

3.  If I lost all the baby weight with child one I assume it’s possible for child two or I can at least lose most of it.

4.  I still won’t allow my living room to be a playpen and no reason a second kid means it has to be.  We have a playroom.

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Ok. Like I said, it was a dose of humility. Good luck. [/quote]

See that’s the exact attitude I encountered before my first kid. The whole “good luck...you think you can manage but you won’t be able to.”

There just isn’t any reason why I will be unable to hire a babysitter or lose the baby weight.  Neither are impossible tasks.

Women had me really scared prekids about everything from returning to work to not being able to lose the weight.  While some things were harder than others, nothing has been insurmountable.

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