Which age is the hardest?

[KathyMCMLXXII]

Please someone, tell me it's 13 months

Obviously it's going to vary, but I wonder what people think?

(Personally I'm finding it way less stressful than when she was a newborn and we worried about if we were doing it right all the time, but physically much, much harder - oh how I miss those hours spent sitting on a sofa breastfeeding in front of Richard & Judy....)

the second week after they are born, when the tiredness is really starting to set in and the initial euphoria has worn off.

The most miserable period of my life.

DD is now 13 months and so much nicer.

this thread made me think back to the first 3 weeks of DS life, which were without question the hardest of my life! But I was recovering from a traumatic birth and crash cs, and was just so exhausted and unwell....DS colicky every evening...but during this time I still felt overwhelming delight in him and bonded so well with him; no time since I had him has been ALL horrible, but newborn was the worst.

The other hard time (so far!) was between 2.5 and 3.5 when everything has had to be negotiated, and negotiated with a completely unreasonable, unlogical human being...just getting him out anywhere was an achievement....

I personally find the first 6 months so boring, they don't do much.

Toddlers are harder (DD just turned 2) but are so so funny.