If you could go back and do the fist year again...parenting regret!

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If you could go back and do the first year again what would you change?

Lol I dunno am just in the process of doing exactly that with dd2....

I wouldn’t want to do it again tbh. I’m enjoying having a toddler much more I think, although I absolutely adored DS when he was little and he’s always been (relatively) easy.

I’d probably spend more time on my relationship with my husband, get some help around the house (I had a cleaner once a week but I’d get someone full time) , maybe a night nanny. And I’d try to chill out about health things because I got really awful anxiety.

I wouldn't have gone back to work so soon (3 months). I wouldn't have gone back full time and I wouldn't have gone back to work as a teacher.

Biggest regret of my life that I didn't have that time with ds.

I was thinking of this today.
Mine are all grown up now.
Two still at home.
I would make them do jobs around the house.
I’ve been picking up after kids for most of my life, had my first at 19 and I’m in my 50s now.

Co- sleeping with my baby and also giving up bottle feeding when she rejected expressed milk and wanted only milk from the breast.

This time I would know that my eldest was disabled. I would not exhaust myself and risk her health by trying to feed on demand when she was not physically strong enough to suckle.
Instead I would bottle feed and focus my energy on getting her symptoms noted and getting physio as early as possible.