I really struggled after my first kid was born. I cried all the time, I was terrified of being alone with him, I felt like I was grieving my life before kids. I had postpartum anxiety, but before I got help, when I was trying to figure out what was going on with me, I’d start talking to other moms with kids older than. mine, and often they’d say, “I know, it’s so hard, but it gets easier.”
Ok, but when. When exactly does it get easier? Nobody could tell me when. So I literally Googled: When does it get easier after you have a baby.
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