To think if I’d had my time over, I’d have stuck at one child

[knighttime]

I know a lot of people think it’s easier because they play together but honestly life with just one child seems so much nicer, calmer, so much lovely one to one time devoted to one, their interests tailored for and you get to properly enjoy parenting.

I seem to be really unique on this as everywhere I see having two is easier and I don’t see it myself?

Is there a very small age gap? That would explain some of the difficulties you are having. We have a 4 year age gap and it was wonderful. I would not have coped well with anything less.

OP I felt like you after my second. I had a traumatic birth, flashbacks etc and she struggled to breastfeed though (whereas everything with my first DC was a breeze by comparison). For a while I resented it but they're now a little older and I realised I probably had postpartum depression from the multiple things I went through...

Personally found the 18 months of baby and toddler a price worth paying for years of them playing nicely together without my input and having an inbuilt friend on family holidays and they have each other when we are gone. But appreciate am
lucky as have two easy girls who get on well.