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I was very colicky! My mom lost inches off her waist doing the colic rock with me.

I wasn't adopted until I was 3 months old, so my mom/dad don't know how I was as a newborn (which makes me sad). I do know that several weeks after I was adopted, I had a really bad ear infection that kept my parents awake for days lol

I definitely was not an easy toddler, that's for sure. I was very, very clingy to my mom and shy with everyone else.

Yes, I've been told I cried a LOT and did not want to sleep. Ever. My parents would sit by my crib until I fell asleep and would then have to army crawl out extremely quietly, lol. On the other hand, as soon as my sister could talk, once it got to be around her bedtime she would just get up, say, "I go to bed," and go off to her room! I hope my kids are more like her, haha.

My parents tell a story that they thought I was a good baby (though very alert - aka did not nap a lot), but I was their first. And then they went to participate in a study about infants at Northwestern U here since my mom was in grad school. And after meeting me and asking them ask sorts of questions, the researcher said, wow so how are you doing with having a difficult baby? And my mom was like, thanks a lot. We had no idea she was difficult until just now.

Based on what my mom says, I was a difficult baby. She's never said it directly but apparently I didn't sleep much at all ever and was really active and into everything. She's said that when my younger brother was born she was worried that something was wrong with him because he slept so much as was so easy going!

@CakeLady: haha jinx!

Yes! Ha ha. I was a nightmare, screamed all the time. It wasn't until my sister was born and was the same that the doctor figured out I had probably had a milk intolerance like she did, which would have explained the screaming and a few other things.

Almost exactly the same as you, @Mrs. Bee! My brother was an absolute terror (but he was first), and I was a dream. I wonder sometimes if she only says that because I was so much easier *compared* to my brother.

Yes, very. I was diagnosed with a milk allergy when I was an older infant, and my mom exclusively BF me from birth and never talked about having to eliminate things from her diet at all, so I’m sure now looking back that milk intolerance and a BF mother drinking tons of milk was the crux of most of my issues. I was super colicky, I was sick a lot, I was projectile vomiting all the time, I lost weight, etc. Once the milk intolerance was identified and remedied, I became a lot easier!!

Easy baby, but a nightmare toddler and child!

I had colic. So I basically drove my mom nuts

It was 6 years before she had my sister and part of that was a reluctance to do the baby thing again bc it was so tough.

Yep. I had colic, didn't talk until 18 months old because it took some time to diagnose my asthma. I pulled my hair out too because of the asthma. Compared to my brother, I was definitely the difficult kid.

I'm told I was easy!

I don't think so but even if I was...I'm sure my mom applies a selective memory recall about it.

I was a horribly awful baby! My parents like to tell me how I was almost an only child (they had planned on 3-4 kids) because they didn't think they could do it again if all babies were as difficult as me! Colic, so much spitting up, constant crying, etc.

ETA: they did end up having 3 kids in total. The other two were much better babies than me.

No but my brother was!

Let's just put it this way, I'm the reason my parents didn't have a third child.

I had to be fed expensive formula due to allergies, I ended up staying in the hospital for quite a bit due to having breathing issues, I wouldn't let my mom do anything for me...

The list goes on.

Yep, I was super easy. So easy that one night when I was around 1, I got sick in my crib and proceeded to fall back asleep without crying until my mom went in to check on me & found that I threw up! (So gross -- DS has totally done the same thing!) I was always a good sleeper. I could be pretty whiny and dramatic as a toddler, though. DS is just like me, he has his moments as a toddler but as a baby/newborn he was always very easy & is a good sleeper.

My younger sister was the tough one -- colic and barely slept.

According to my MIL, DH (also the first born) was a dream baby, but SIL was very colicky.

It makes me scared for what I'm in for with this next baby!

@PrincessBaby: my mom did the same!

My mom is a certified member of the rose-colored glasses club. She kept telling me that all 6 of her babies were great sleepers and easy babies.

And then once she let it slip that I had to cry myself to sleep every night for over a year. Um...that doesn't sound so easy to me.

She also forgets that I was 6 when my little sister was born and although maybe SHE'S forgotten how my little sister slept, I, the little girl who shared a room with a baby, have NOT forgotten. By then (their 6th child), they didn't even use a monitor and I had to get up on school nights and pat my sister back to sleep or go down the hall and get my mom if my sister wouldn't sleep. And I was in 2nd grade.