Did anyone find the newborn stage ok/ good?

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This is just a curious thread. I have a 2.5 year old boy, there is someone with in the family unit that is going to give birth mid summer. Whilst talking to her the other day, she was saying how she can’t wait for time off work and is just going to be sat in the garden all summer. In my head I was laughing thinking ‘you’re about to have the hardest job of your life and as for sat on the garden all summer, more like days of being unable to eat/ wash etc.’ But then i realised I was judging this based on my experience- I was blessed with a very colicy baby (was actually CMPA bit did work this out till he was eating solids) and PND - along with a partner that worked away pretty much from me giving birth so I struggled massively. So I’m just curious, did anyone find the newborn stage easy? I understand a lot will be down to the support you get. Just curious to see if anyone actually found it a breeze?

Absolutely hated the newborn stage, and to be honest struggled through the first year with PND, anxiety and boredom. I couldn't get over how upended life was, and how ill equipped I was at for this mothering lark. I still shudder when I think back on that time, and I definitely couldn't have considered having another. However, that truly appalling year has made everything else that followed seem like a walk in the park.

I have four kids, including one set of twins. I absolutely love the 0-12 months stage, and spent a lot of time sitting in the garden with my young babies. More so with my first babies (twins), but also with the third and fourth.

It isn't all easy, but I have yet to find an "easy" stage of raising children! I absolutely enjoyed each of my new babies though. Particularly before they could move