AIBU to think that having a newborn is a doddle...

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...compared to the first trimester of pregnancy?

I'm having my best first trimester so far (DC3) and yet I still feel absolutely shocking. I keep thinking, well soon I'll have a whole new human to look after as well but having a newborn is much easier then this, isn't it?

DS1 gave me a tough pregnancy. The first half was exhaustion and awful nausea that made me too sickly to want to eat. That then got replaced by unidentified SPD that had me pretty much housebound in the last month. By that stage carpal tunnel had joined the party rendering all four limbs pretty useless.

Newborn sleep for blocks of 2 hours at a time was bliss compared to waking hourly with tingling nerves on the side I was sleeping on, then spending 5 minutes heaving my body weighing 50% more than normal over to the other side then repeating an hour later.

Neither of my births had easy recoveries, but I had a good support network in the first month and didn't have to worry about much other than keeping baby and me alive. Easier than trying to continue business as usual in early pregnancy. Also giving birth to 2 stones of baby fluids and placenta makes everything physically easier than the 3rd tri.

In my experience YANBU. It depends on the standards set by the pregnancy, and newborn. My body doesn't like pregnancy

Depends. DD1 - first trimester was fine but newborn period the worst 12 weeks of my life. Thought I was dying. Barely left the house for weeks. With DD2 had hideous first trimester but newborn stage was great. I was that mother who was out having lunch in the sunshine 4 days after a c section.

God no. DD1 had reflux and colic and spent months screaming and projectile vomiting.

I was sick every single day of my second pregnancy but that was still easy compared to actually having DD2 here who didn't sleep through the night until she was 4.

Glad my pregnancy and newborn days are long gone!

Both pregnancy and newborn were horrific with DS1 (9 months of sickness then a reflux child who didn't sleep through for 3 years)

DS2 pregnancy was another 9 months of sickness plus a non sleeping toddler. As a newborn he didn't sleep and still wakes every night now...he is nearly 2.

I am not having a third.

I couldn't sleep when I was pregnant, plus I was exhausted and in pain all of the time. I remember feeling amazingly well rested the day after I had dd2 even though I was in hospital following a c section in a room full of nutters and a baby who wanted to breastfeed hourly! In between all that I slept deeply, which I hadn't done for 9 months.
I would love to be one of those people who gets a pregnancy 'glow' but I can barely function when pregnant so a newborn is easy compared to that.

Newborns are also a fiddle compared to babies who are mobile. In fact, newborns are the easiest bit of the "positive test to third birthday" stage.

Every pregnancy and newborn is different, I had an easy pregnancy, difficult newborn, she's only just sleeping through now at 4 years old.

You can only feel like that when you are on child 2 or later. When it's your first it's seriously hard work, on subsequent babies the whole newborn thing is easy. However, managing the newborn and older kids isn't easy.

Guess it depends. Absolutely not for me. I found my pregnancies a total breeze. The baby stage nearly destroyed me.

Compared to the bloody horrendous third trimester insomnia, yes! I slept so much better after DS2 and 3 were born. DS1 I didn't have insomnia but I was much younger as there is a 12 year gap between DS1 and DS2.