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I feel like things are so much easier now! Since about 4.5 months I'd say. We have difficult moments still for sure (last night omg, babe didn't sleep more than 90 mins in a row! Wtf??!) but overall sooooo much easier and more fun now! Each stage gets better and better

Eta I should add, the first 4.5 months weren't equally hard. By 6 weeks we figured out bfing but then she wasn't gaining enough so thing we're super hard around 2 months. Then she started gaining again and things got easier, until the 4 month sleep regression

Six months was probably the turning point for us.

6 weeks - Resolved difficult/painful breastfeeding issues. Felt physically healed from birth.

12 weeks - Colic stopped.

Between 11.5 and 16 weeks - Sleep trained and nap trained, so I wasn't spending my entire day trying to get him down.

18 weeks - Started being able to leave him in his jumperoo or on his playmat to play by himself while I made dinner, went to the bathroom, etc.

It's up and down, but on the whole it just keeps getting better!

Easier? I am still waiting and my son is almost 4. Things change, what was a big deal in his first year is so far from my mind.

What worries me more is the school years, when I can't control things. Like what what happens if he comes home from school and tells me no one will sit with him at lunch?

7 weeks when my vag felt better
3 ish months when he started mostly sttn or only getting up once
Now he's 8 months and most things are easy! Other then when he decides 530 is wake up tjme

@looch: I agree with you. I worried a lot about DS1 as a baby - eating, sleeping, etc. he hit one and didn't worry about all that stuff anymore. With his brother I don't even give any of that a second thought. But now I think that the truly hard stuff is down the road. The bigger they are, the bigger the problems.

Around 9 months, he was finally crawling and able to move around so HE was happier, there was less pressure on nursing, so that was easier. But his sleep still sucked. So that was tough. Honestly, the toddler age (from 13m-now) has been the easiest (kind of). He STTN, he naps, he can talk and walk. SO much more fun, and much easier to be with him because he's more fun, and he can communicate.

I feel like 6 months was a huge turning point. I can deal with an awful lot more when I am not exhausted. And she started crawling earlier and was fun. She was walking around by 10 months! Crazy. I feel like at 19 months, we're in an "easy" spell right now, too. She's eager to please, listens pretty well, follows commands, and is really sweet and loving.