Did you find your first baby or second easier?

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On the fence about whether to go for it and have a second baby, DS is 3.5 and for so many reasons we would love another but I can't help but thinking how our lives will change again. We now have a great routine, DD sleeps so well bed at 7pm no problem loves his bed and going to sleep so we enjoy our evenings again, a baby would of course change all this.
I keep thinking to how it was when DS was a baby our lives as we knew it were turned upside down but now we have that routine in place or feeding DS at dinner time with us, toys round the house, leaving the house with a child and picking things I think it may be easier second time round as a baby would just fit it as allowed to your whole lives changing after not having a baby it's a big change.
What have people found second babies/children easier or harder than welcoming your first baby and getting into routine? X

Following with interest as due my second and absolutely terrified! I can't remember what my DD was like as a baby either

DC2 due soon so shall find out....

However DC1 was an AWFUL newborn up to 6 months, got a little easier but not much after that. Very head strong toddler too.

I keep thinking that DC2 has either got to be easier, or at least the same (in which case, I’m prepared!). It’s difficult to imagine how DC2 could be significantly worse - although I’m sure there’s ways.

I always feel a bit sorry for people who have a chilled first child and a tricky second child. Must be a real shock to the system.

My second was so much easier. I couldn't put the first one down for the first three months, but DC2 was much more easygoing.

First baby was very easy and still is. Second was hard work and is even harder now and the baby is a combination of both but I have more patience 😂

Second, he's still sleep fighting and waking in the night at 7 months, but he's an absolute dream. Hes so chilled out and sweet, he doesn't want for much. Just hangs around with me and the toddler. 😂

Second was easier as my eldest always needed fed and rocked to sleep and was so hard to put down in the cot so did a lot of sleeping on me. He also had night feeds well past one year old.

My second is 6 months has always just fallen asleep on her own. If I have rocked her to sleep and put her down she might stir but goes back off. She also slept through from about 8 weeks which was an absolute revelation.

Part of it was possibly because I simply couldn't sit and hold her all day as she was born at the start of strict lockdown and I had a two year old to look after. I put off going to places other than family visits with both children by myself for a long time but I've started to go to play parks and the library now.