Is having a baby really that fucking awful?

I just constantly see people complaining about having kids all over Facebook.

Most of them only have one baby. The complaining is unreal. Talking about how they miss life before having a kid, how tired they are of it. How it's mentally and emotionally exhausting and the hardest thing they've ever done.

I mean for sure it's hard, I just dont have any idea about it. I mean unless this would give me a clue-

I kinda raised my niece for the first year of her life. Literally when i was 17 my older sister had a baby and gave her to me until she felt like taking her back. I'd have her for weeks on end, My mom (not my sisters mom) baby sat her while I went to school and work and then I'd have her when I was home. My mom basically said I might as well have had a baby. child did not sleep. From birth until a year she'd wake up 5-6 times a night mostly just wanting me to open my eyes and look at her. That's all. Just look at me and love me I don't care.

My sister had horrific ppd and was having suicidal thoughts and thoughts about hurting her daughter and locked herself in her house and gave her to me, only taking her back every other weekend and then getting tired of her and giving her back. After she told me she wanted to hurt her, I didn't know what to do so I told her i was going to call cps unless she went and got help for her severe depression. She did and it's all good now.

But having her as a baby, really wasnt all that bad. Yes I was tired but I liked her and wanted her around and now she's like a miniature best friend, she was then too. She was a very happy baby and I just went everywhere with her on my hip and she fit with me. She's 4 now and she says I belong to her. love her very much. But all this is nothing, I'm NOT a mom and I only had her for a year.

Those of you who are mothers, are children really that freaking awful?

And I know it's insane that my sister basically handed her daughter over to me for a year while i was still a minor. At the time, I didn't see how big of a deal that was and didn't know what ppd was. I just thought she wasn't ready for a baby and then there was a baby, and she needed someone to take care of her so I did it, with my moms help so I could work and go to school. My sister bought her diapers and formula, so she provided everything but the mom part. She went to doctors visits with me-she had to because I couldn't take her alone because she wasn't MY baby. Then we would leave in separate cars, me with her baby. My sister is very grateful that I did this. She said she probably would be dead if I didn't. She likes that my niece is bonded with me. Her mind was in ruins and she just couldn't handle it.