When does it get easier? Newborn and toddler :)

[MrsBone]

Okay, so I know it will get easier, but in your experience, when has having 2 kids gotten easier? DD is only 2 months old and DS is 2 1/2 and currently going through a major sleep regression and no longer naps. I feel like I barely get by each day. I do get out with the kids a couple times a week and on sunday we have church and lunch after with hubby and church friends. I have band practice for 3 hours one night a week, we have bible study with childcare one night a week and I am at my moms house at least once or twice a week, so I do get alone/kid free time and lots of help, but I still feel like I'm barely getting everything done in the day! Between nursing the baby, cleaning up, making meals(I do make meals from scratch most of the time too!), paying bills/ keeping track of finances, running errands, my mind feels like it's about to explode sometimes! Luckily DD is a good sleeper so far, and no one has been sick yet since she was born, and no teething yet, so all that aside, it's been fairly manageable, but I guess the thought of all those things getting in the way of day to day life is a little daunting. I've had friends tell me that by the time baby is 6 months old it gets easier. Why is that? Mamas, I need some encouragement :)

[MrsBone]

oh yeah, and two in diapers and starting the potty training process! UGH!

[CherryBombMama]

i was in your spot not too long ago! i found that when my ds2 was 4m and my ds1 was about to turn 2, that was the EASIEST time ever. i just strapped ds2 in the ergo and did whatever ds1 wanted.  it had been pretty easy up until now, when ds2 learned to crawl. now everything is so hard all over again. two mobile babies mean two different directions at the park, in the house, one wants to be outside, one wants to be inside, they both have their eye on the same toy and its a fight whenever that toy is picked up because the other thinks "i was trying to go get it!" 

everyone said once ds2 was able to move, it would get even easier. that was a big lie. 

did that help? lol

[LadyCatherine185]

My two are 27 months apart. For me it got a lot easier around 5 months. DS2 started sitting independantly, and was happy to sit and play for periods of time. Also, that is when he started letting me put him down asleep for naps (previously had to be held for each  nap).

Now at 8 months, it is almost.. dare I say... getting easy? I don't have good sleepers, but other than that we have a pretty good routine to our day, DS1 has matured a lot over the last 8 months, he is now potty trained (which was very easy for us, but I waited until he almost trained himself..lol) and DS2 is SUCH a happy baby, and just started crawling and pulling up. We are having so much fun.

I will say that I have let go a lot of the chores/errands/running around and have stayed home more to make the days a little easier/slower.

[anjsmama]

Mine are 29 months apart. DS is 34.5 months, DD is 5.5 months. It just got easier... like.. I don't know. It just happened! Haha. We had so much fun over the 4th of July and it seems like it has been easier ever since then. DD recently learned to sit well and roll over and her interest in toys is booming now and she nurses less frequently. She still nurses at night but whatever, I barely even wake. PLUS they are taking a nap together from around 1pm- 2:30p or 3p every.day. 2 hours to myself everyday? Sheesh, maybe I'll have 6 kids...  NOT! But seriously, my DS had just started potty training when DD arrived and just (*fingers crossed*) completed the process in the last few weeks. Trying to commit to help him potty full-time was the biggest challenge by far in the early months, when DD was so needy. If I had my wits about me, I would have just waited, until he was a lot more ready, and DD would have been older. He only recently learned to dress and undress so that was silly.

But we go to the park, pool, library, or what-have-you pretty much daily and it's fantastic. DS runs around, DD just hangs out in the carrier, or sometimes even gets in the little baby swing. I'm not exactly sure when it got easier, I just know it did.... cause at 2 months, I was ready to throw in the towel! Also DD is just SUCH a happy, chill baby now. Just watching DS do his thing makes her so happy.