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[quote=Anonymous]I was really struggling when my kids were the same ages of yours, OP. I was venting to a good friend who had teen/tweens at the time, and she said it was much harder when they were older. I was incredulous: harder than when your kids don't sleep through the night, need you to feed them every meal and change diapers, and you can't leave them alone for 2 minutes? She quickly retracted and said, oh yeah, I forgot about those sleep deprived years. That's my first introduction to the big kids, big problem saying. Some people really do forget how gruelingly hard those first years are. For us, if it weren't for an oops pregnancy, we would not have actively pursued having a second one b/c the temperament of our first can best be described as a honey badger.

As I look around and consider all my peers (friends, neighbors, colleagues all solidly middle class) who have 3 kids, the vast majority struggle with health issues, as in having no time for self care and problems compound. The exception is one couple who is very young, wife stays at home, and all their kids are freaky unicorns who sleep 12 hours straight from 2 months on. [/quote]

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