Poll: which is harder, pregnancy or having a newborn? Vote here!

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

IME, pregnancy is waaaaay harder than having a newborn.
Pregnancy means:
-you're sick all the time
-by late pregnancy you can't breathe properly or bend down and you need to go to the toilet every half hour
-you have to get up at night every hour or so to go to the toilet
At least when you have the baby:
-you only need to carry a baby around, not baby + placenta + fluid
-you have the option of putting it in a buggy or giving it to someone else for a while
-you can co-sleep so you don't actually have to get out of bed at all
-you have a sweet little baby which gets constantly admired

Surely it's not just me who thinks this? Or do I just have really really shite pregnancies?

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newborn

newborn

Definately newborn. Pregnancy was/is a breeze compared to having a newborn.

How can you choose they are both unbelievably hard. I'm pg now and very sick so leaning towards pg but when I'm in labour i'll think that and when it arrives I will definately vote newborn

PREGANANCY is much harder than either birth or newborn. Pregnancy is a shocking 8 month illness for me, during which I need looking after and can go nowhere!

Newborn
I felt great in pregnancy and had a crap birth and c/s so coping with newborn was sooo hard

18 newborn, 11 pregnancy, 1 both-as-bad-as-each-other

Pregnancy, definitely. But then I have shite pregnancies followed by premature newborns that sleep all the time.

Now, if it was pregnancy vs newborn vs toddlers ...

Child one - newborn.
Subsequent children - pregnancy.

Sorry, but it's not really a fair contest. If you were to say 9 months of pregnancy versus 9 months of having a baby, then the Baby is WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY harder!

Newborns are a doddle, they sleep all the time, but after about 2 weeks it all goes horribly horribly scary

i agree with projecttartanarmyicarus!

Newborn.

Pg was horribly anxious and (partic with ds2) complicated, but physically a breeze: I wasalways fine with back/sleeping/the extra weight, and sickness was non-existent with ds1 and manageable with ds2.

pregnancy

Newborn. But then he was very very sick.

Pregnancy sucked too.

All worth it for post 6 months baby, though

Interesting that a few people have mentioned that with 1st child, pg was easier than newborn bit but vice versa with 2nd.

I wondered if that might be the case. 1st time with a newborn can be such an almighty shock but you know pretty much what you are in for with subsequent babies. And your not going from being carefree stright into being a mum, you are mum already.

Well, I hoped it would be like this anyway becayse 1st time with a newborn was pretty horrific (for me). I wouldn't even mind trading a shitty pg for it either - it's only 9 months, what's the big deal?

Newborn - & I had a complicated late pregnancy (pre-eclampsia)

I guess that those of you saying that pregnancy is harder didn't have non-sleeping newborns with milk intolerance/reflux/colic .

Newborn a billion times harder IME.

Newborn. Although I only got to 34 weeks so never did the size-of-a-house bit.

Cantsleep - nope, my dd slept through from 7 weeks

[ducks]

I agree with you norkmaiden but then i would say the same for labour towill hope to have more drugs next time

Pregnancy is harder although I didn't think that when dd1 was born I do now.

Newborn much harder, when pregnant I swanned around taking much rest as I was soooo exhausted, and enjoyed being centre of attention. When DS arrived I was exhausted but no one gave a flying tush because cute new baby had arrived and who cared if I had no sleep for the past 3 weeks.

Although not fancying pregnancy next time round ( fingers crossed) with active toddler.

Pregnancy. I hated it both times and had 1 easy and another not so easy pregnancy. I loved the childbirth part though (probably relief )