New Parents Get Real About Their Struggles With Parenthood

By Teresa Thomerson in Life Style On 29th April 2016
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#1 Baby's tend to poop at least eight to ten times a day.

#2 To try to build that patience, you have to try to step away a few minutes at the time when you know they're safe and just take the time to breathe.

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#3 Overall, 39 percent of mothers and 21 percent of fathers had experienced an episode of depression during the first 12 years of their child’s life.

#4 Postpartum Anxiety isn't often heard of but it's out there.

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#5 New parents are lucky to get 5.1 hours of sleep every night. Many go with much less.

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#6 There's that anxiety again!

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#7 Chronic worrying affects your life so much that it interferes with your appetite, lifestyle habits, relationships, sleep, and job performance.

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#8 All reasons why parents are so likely to become depressed.

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#9 There are 5.2 million moms and 159 thousand dads that are stay at home parents.

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#10 Colic is severe, fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by intestinal gas or obstruction in the intestines and suffered especially by babies.

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#11 Most people feel free to tell you all kinds of things you don't want to know.

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#12 You just have to do what is right for you.

#13 There are a lot of restriction and NO ONE ever wants to babysit.

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#14 It's a life time change.

#15 It's all worth it though.