If your first child was an easy baby, how was your second??

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DD (8 months) is an easy baby. She sleeps from 6.30pm-7am, has a morning nap and 2hr lunch nap.
Naps/sleeps anywhere - pram, cot, bed, plane bassinet..
Never went through any sleep regressions.
Hasn't really suffered with teething pain.
Breastfeeding came naturally to both of us.
She's never refused a bottle. In fact we have many varieties of bottles and she happily takes them all.
She isn't fussed about what brand of formula she has (again tried many varieties while travelling).
Eats well/eats everything.
Always happy and content and smiley. Very low maintenance.

Almost certainly nothing to do with my parenting and mostly down to luck of the draw.

I'm pregnant with DC2 and really worried the next one is going to be difficult.

What's everyone else's experience? Will I end up with another 'easy' baby or are they all different?

DD1 (and only) an absolute dream. Slept through from six weeks as hadbeen in hospital and they had her in a routine that I would never had managed to achieve. Great eater, confident and social. Loving and kind. Hit four or so and I think I had a changeling....just coming through the other side now at nearly nine and it has nearly broken me with her behaviour. Sleeps OK but everything else....think I would go back and put up with some sleepless nights rather than the last four years but I suppose I should be thankful I didn't have four years of bad sleep before I got the bad behaviour...........

Devil spawn!! He was awful.

A fucking nightmare.

DS1 was a typical easy baby. He couldn't breastfeed but other than that he slept through from 12 weeks, napped brilliantly, loved the car and the pram and the sling and was generally just happy to be part of the plan.

DS2 has colic, reflux, never ever slept, hated formula but refused to breastfeed, terrible tongue tie, never ever slept, hated the pram, hated the sling, hated the car and never ever slept. Did I mention he never slept? He's 17mo now and despite all that he does have a very sunny disposition, but he is hard work and the sleep problem has nearly finished me off. He is lovely though, don't get me wrong and we adore hm.

I was never smug about DS1 being easy because I thought get it was pure luck and I was right!

DC 1 was a good baby and a great sleeper, but DC 2 was amazingly easy, great sleeper, great feeder and was and still is very easy going. Never had a tantrum in his life! DC 3 now, was a very different story.

First easy, second a nightmare!

Yes, like some PP I too thought "what's everyone making such a fuss for, babies and this parenting thing is easy!" But this thread is mostly proving my fears - it's mainly just down to luck and I'm almost expecting to have a difficult baby this time round. Eep!

The phrase I was told "never two the same" is 100% true for mine. I was actually expecting a hard time this time round, doesn't make it any easier though

Ds1 was a dream, slept through from 8 weeks, mapped until he was 3.5 years old (only stopped last week). Happy baby who loved his food. He's a good toddler if a little spirited.

DD1 is 10 weeks today and has just started sleeping through. She's different to DS but still seems pretty laid back and good natured. Time will tell.....

Apparently I was hard work, never slept and my mother found me difficult (still does, I believe!). She claims my younger brother was much easier. She has always admitted he's the favourite and I think this is one of the reasons why.

My cousin had a really easy first baby - she didn't realise he was easy as she had nothing to compare him to until number two arrived. She was in complete shock because he was such hard work. When she described him to my mother she said he sounded just like my first. Now she was hard work - absolutely wonderful and lovely and still is at four but no-one found her easy. She nearly broke me and I admit raising her has damaged my mental health. I'm working on the law of averages and desperately hoping my second, due in January, is going to be my easy one. It's a bit of a risk as I know I will struggle to cope if she's like my first but too late now!

I genuinely thought that having a long age gap after dc2 would hopefully make dc3 effectively like dc1 again so would get another perfect baby. Oh how wrong I was. Dc3 is like DC2.0: The Reckoning. I think the pair of them have actually broken me. Good thing they're cute.

Both of mine were dreams as babies but in totally different ways.

DS1 - swaddled and slept through from 10 days old. Independent sleeper, nurses well. From birth to 18 months was great, from 18 months to about 4 years was HARD! Physically exhausting and I struggled to have patience with toddler tantrums.

DS2 - only slept on his side or stomach, nursed so effectively that I had overactive letdown and had to cut him off after 5 min feeds.
But was the snuggliest baby, I co-slept with him as he nursed a lot through the night and every morning I'd wake up with him snuggled up under my chin.
He's now 4 1/2 and just started kindergarten today. He still sneaks into bed and I wake up with his little chubby hand on my face and his eyelashes against my cheek 😍

Both my DC were easy babies. If anything DC2 was even easier.

My first was such an easy baby. He ate and slept really well was very chilled and calm and able to occupy himself for small amounts of time. Textbook.

My second baby is a whirlwind. He never stops. Everything is a million miles an hour, always up to mischief, very cheeky. He eats very well but sleeps not so much! Can't take my eyes off him for a second. So sweet though like his brother but definitely harder work.

There is 8 years between my two though and my parenting style changed a lot between the two from a very chilled out laid back Mum to a stressed out worrier due to my second being really ill when he was born so I do take most of the blame 😁

Ds1: very difficult until about 4 months, wouldn't stop screaming
Ds2 ( 14 months younger) Clingey and whingey and very naughty as a toddler and boy, infact at nearly 19 he's still naughty.
Dd1: dream baby but very very difficult teenager
Dd2: difficult baby Clingey and demanding- remains difficult as a teen
Dd3: the easiest baby I have ever come across. Slept more than she was awake until the age of 2. Hardly cried. She is still placid at 12.

There I finally had it Sussed by number 5, what a wonderful, experienced mother I was
Then came ds3: 15 months younger than dd3 and didn't stop screaming until he was 2. He literally caused me to lose my hearing( I had it tested). He never napped properly during the day.
He is now at 11 very placid and easy going.

You just can't predict. You get what you're given.

DCs 1 & 2 were both very easy. DC3 nearly broke us (but ok now aged 7!). All luck of the draw!

DD1 was an easy baby.

I thought we’d I used our luck up but DD2 was even easier as a baby. However DD2 has been a pain at bedtime since moving into a bed.

I think both being easy babies is probably a reflection of DH and I being easy babies. Whenever someone has a more difficult baby I ask whether one of the parents was a difficult baby and generally one was. The way to get an easy baby is to have two easy babies as parents, in my anecdotal experience.