How did you find the first twelve months of being a parent?

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Curious to find out what everyone’s experience was.

Awful but amazing. I found out what love is but was pretty much abandoned by partner which was very hard.

Utter shitshow partly due to having such rubbish support from services I thought I could rely on, partly because I just had a high needs baby with no chill. 18 months on I'm still waiting for it to get better :) My PND improved massively around the 14 month mark...then I got pregnant again. Hoping this baby is a little more chilled out.

Wonderful. I was on cloud 9 for the first 12 months of dc1. I also loved the baby days with my next 2. Magic.

Amazing, I had 2 happy easy going babies that slept well and I found breast feeding easy, both were portable and I could take them anywhere, I realise I was very lucky. The toddler and young child years I found very difficult though.