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We've definitely had our 5 from the list, breastfeeding issues, nursing strikes, jaundice, sleep, eating, weight gain, and speech delays. Really the things I would eliminate are the nursing strikes and food/medication allergies (more my own, honestly).

While many of these drove me crazy along the way, they also help make my kiddos who they are and me the parent that I am. We are still knee deep in the speech delays, but we have met so many wonderful people and have a great support group because of it. My oldest having jaundice made me appreciate having my second room in with me all that much more. I really got to enjoy the heck out of our time alone. While my oldest and I struggled for a couple months at breastfeeding, it has made me appreciate the hard work and successes we eventually had.

DS was and still can be a terrible sleeper. However, he's awesome during the day and when we travel so it's one of those things that I debate would I rather trade sleep for good daytime behavior. Most of the time, I say no, but man, lack of sleep sucks major!

1. we had major weight issues with DD1 due to spit up/severe reflux
2. DD2 refuses a bottle, she's been at daycare a month and still won't take it. (i picked other since she has no issue breastfeeding, she loves it soo much she refuses anything else!)
3. DD1 has had some serious temper tantrum lately so that's been challenging.

I could only come up with 3 otherwise my girls have been very easy kids!

I picked the ones I haven't had to deal with, with my three. We haven't had colic, jaundice, speech/development delays, public tantrums, and allergies (although my youngest was recently diagnosed with an amoxicillin allergy, that was scary). Made it through all the others!

We have been so lucky with DD that we haven't had to deal with any issues. But I would pick colic, sleep issues, failure to thrive and allergies... sleep is a biggie for me.

We've been really lucky with DS that we haven't dealt with many issues. He's allergic to penicillin, but that's nothing compared some serious food allergies etc.

As I'm facing my due date in a couple of weeks, I am really hoping to not have to deal with colic, sleep issues (past nb/infant normalcy), and hope to have a relatively similar bf journey as I did with DS1. Fingers crossed we hit the jackpot twice!

We got to experience a bunch of those! Jaundice and constipation for both kids, developmental delay for one, and a few assorted others that feel smaller (sleep, potty training issues, tantrums, etc.)

Um, my son had colic and reflux, my milk didn't come in for a week and I had supply issues, so we switched to EPing and supplementation. He had jaundice that landed him in NICU, was/is easily overstimulated, and all of those issues combined led to him not sleeping, so we got this hell spiral of death that we couldn't get out of for 3 months. He screamed so much our pediatrician thought he might have an intolerance or allergy, so I was also on a total elimination diet for 5-6 months. So, I really hope my next kid can do me a solid and maybe just have like one or two of those issues and not all of the above. Because he literally almost made me never want to have another baby again. Although now at 10 months, he's awesome and has been more fun than not since 5 months.

Our biggest in LO's life were sleep, colic, and breastfeeding/allergies aka MSPI and elimination diet. I am so lucky that all of those have been resolved. Things like teething and tantrums are what we deal with now but they are a cakewalk compared to last year.