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I'm at 7 1/2 months and it still doesn't feel "normal". I have accepted the change but I still have days where I feel overwhelmed! But I guess that's the way it's going to be!

You should think about it as the "new" normal, not normal. I think the biggest issue I had was realizing that I was a new me, not the me that I was before kids. And, I would say 6-8 months sounds about right. With the second kid, for me, there wasn't the identity crisis of "ohmygosh I'm someone's mom," so the new new normal was a lot faster. I would say four months....

Actually 5-6 months feels about right. LO is 5.5 months now and I'm feeling completely recovered from L&D...my lady bits in particular. Sex with DH is back to normal (better, even). I've gotten used to how clingy my LO is, how much active attention he needs at any given time. I've learned to be able to listen to him cry for several minutes and not panic or get overwhelmed and how to manage on very little broken sleep. I feel comfortable and confident being his mom.

I think 3 months was the new normal for me.

5-6 months.

With twins, we were just surviving the first 2 months. It was pretty crazy until about 4 months. Months 4-6 were pretty ok but had colds and teething for us so it was kind of rough still. Now at 6 months, I have my groove back. We have free time again, kids sleep better, I can cook and exercise, and I feel like I am really enjoying life again and really enjoying my kids.

By 12 months. Everything was new and difficult the first year, after that, it was a lot easier.

Probably around the 3-4 month mark. This was also around when LO started SLEEPING through the night, which helped the adjustment. Prior to that, I could barely think straight.

With my sons it took me a very long time. My normal was really strange. Since I was still going back and forth to court for my oldest and them twins added in. I think it took me about a year to come out of my baby haze.

With my daughter is was much quicker maybe two months or so.

I would say that for me, the "normal" has changed multiple times. When I was first home with LO, it probably took me 6-8 weeks to get comfortable and in my routine. By 3 months we had it down, and then I had to go back to work. I agree that settling into work was much easier than anticipated but it was definitely a different "normal" than being home all day. A few weeks into working and we had that down.

Then we started purees, and have since increased the number of meals, are now introducing protein, etc so something is always changing and our schedules change accordingly. Now that we're getting this down, I'm waiting for LO to start crawling and that will be a whole lot of new normal to get used to. haha.