Harder going from 0-1 or 1-2?

[seasunshine22]

Just as the title says really, did you find it harder going from 0-1 children or 1-2 children?
If you found if harder going from 1-2 what age gap did you have?

0 - 1 without a doubt,
Changes your life beyond measure.
In our case, dc1 was a much more challenging baby than dc2, too. If you have the easy one first, then it might be slightly closer in diference.

1-2 definitely for us! DC1 was an absolute breeze! Really easy, happy, placid baby who slept well and who you could take anywhere without any bother. DC2 has been a huge shock to our systems! Was a really colicky and unhappy baby, has never slept well and was born just before the winter lockdown which made everything so much harder! There’s 3 years between our two.

@Ohtheaudacity

0-1 was like a bomb had been dropped on my life and I had to pick up the pieces. 1-2 has been a breeze so far! 3.5yrs between my two.

Same!

From discussions in baby groups, I've found that if you find 0-1 easy, or exactly what you were expecting or wonderful etc the 1-2 is so so hard. But if you found 0-1 hell, like your life was blown apart the 1-2 is easy.

1-2 for me. My DS was a easy baby, loved sleep, even tempered. Then DD came along and laughed at my smugness.

3 years apart and I love them to pieces but I find them much easier to handle one on one. Considering building individual pods in the car so they can't spend the whole journey screaming/bickering and tickling each other.

0-1 was incredibly hard - my life temporarily changed beyond recognition and it scared me; I wondered if we'd made a mistake. My first baby was very hard work. 1-2 has been pretty straightforward: 6 year age gap and the second baby cried way less and slept way more. We did nothing differently.