Cost/Benefit Analysis... Sorta

Things that are easier with child #2

• This time you know they don't break that easily
• You've been sleep deprived since the arrival of child #1 so the transition isn't as shocking
• Shopping/registering for stuff (since you know you don't need 90% of it) and already having most of what you need
• Realizing that noise while baby is sleeping is a good thing and NEVER get them used to silence
• Having two sets of grandparents within a 20 mile radius
• Having a co-sleeper

Things that are harder with child #2

• Child #1
• Mastitis
• Nipple confusion because of giving a bottle because of mastitis
• Working from home, but still having to interact with people (ie. giving new student and her parents a tour while leaking from my left breast)
• Not being a horrible, snappy, cranky parent to child #1
• Protecting child #2 from child #1 while still encouraging big brotherhood
• Convincing child #2 that 8pm to 6am is nighttime/bedtime/sleeptime... not 4am to 10am and most of the day
• Not waking child #1 while child #2 screams from gas during said non-sleeping, nighttime hours
• Imagining a functioning life with two children