Did anyone find baby 2 - and having two DC - easier than having one?

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Looking back, I struggled when DS1 was a baby, for no particular reason other than not knowing what I was doing half the time and being neurotic about just about everything!
With DC2 due in just over three weeks I'm obviously wondering - and worrying - what coping with two will be like. I was hoping I would be a bit more chilled with the baby thing, having been there already.
However having just read the thread entitled "things are much harder with no 2' my worries are now exacerbated!
DS1 will be 2.6 when his baby brother or sister arrives.

Have found 2 harder, but looking after a baby is MUCH easier second time round. Its the combination of the 2 DCs that is hard (my DD will NOT leave her brother alone for one second!). Sometimes I wonder what on earth I was making such a fuss about when Dd was a baby. My DCs are 2.5y apart in age, and I think I would be having a hard time of it even if DD (3) was an only child (she is HARD work!). DS is the easiest baby ever. I don't know whether this is nature or nurture, cos the fact is, the 2nd one has to fit in so much more. Rather than our life revolving round him (as it did with DD), for example his naps, feeds etc revolve around nursery/playgroup times.
But what is easier in a funny way, as Skimty says, is that by the time no. 2 comes along you have already given up your 'grown up' time to a certain extent!
I would agree with those who say that playgroup/childcare is a must for at least one or two mornings a week. DD stopped having an afternoon nap when I was 8 mths pregnant and I wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for 2 playgroup sessions per week.
Good luck, and remember the hard bit won't last for ever!

Interesting isn't it - those who say it'ss not so hard having two all seem to be those with "difficult" 1st babies, who were then pleasantly surprised to find that babies don't necessariliy have to scream non-stop from 6pm till midnight... I think what makes number two easier for me than number one was is that I haven't had a full nights sleep for 2 years now and have thus been trained out of needing more than 6hrs sleep, with no more than 3 consecutive hours a night! (can you tell what kind of baby dd was!)

Yes but only because I have got (slightly) better at it.....

1 to 2 definately easier for me. DC1 was high spirited to put it politely. Having 2 in definately a juggling act, but the shock of having a baby in your life and adapting to that is not there.

DC2 is just over 4 months, and things are much easier now. We aren't in a routine, butthings like sleep and feeding are more predictable.