What’s one thing you wish someone would’ve told you before having a child?

Question

Are we ever REALLY ready to become a parent? Even after reading a million books and watching endless videos, there’s always something we didn’t know and wish we would’ve know beforehand. What’s that one thing for you all?  Either during after or before pregnancy . This can also include the effects a pregnancy/child can have on the solidity of your relationship!

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Make sure to pick the RIGHT partner for the job...made that mistake 3 times...don’t ask

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Honestly for me it woulda been to take as many pictures as you can as they grow because she's 3 months now and although I have pictures of her and I've taken pictures if her with her dad I don't have any pictures with her on the day she was born she few pictures I do have with her I took myself and we have no pictures of all of us together. I have no pictures of her first Christmas and I continuously miss taking her monthly pictures. She will never be that little again she's just gonna keep growing those are moments I can't get back and it makes me sad that I didn't get them captured on camera

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I wish I knew there would be no more sex or romance. Or adult life in general. We are just beyond exhausted all the time. We barely even have adult conversations in the evening. Today, I fell asleep at my desk at work. 
I also wish I had known (or maybe I don’t) that my body would flip out and attack itself. I developed an autoimmune blood disorder while pregnant with our first. There’s no cure and I’ll battle with it the rest of my life. It took my spleen and we lived in fear for many months that it would take my life while treatment after treatment failed. I wasn’t even allowed to use my electric toothbrush because it was too risky.
No one can say for certain if it was caused by pregnancy or not, but it happened while pregnant so the association is there.

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Finding equal ground between the way your partner parents and you parent is important. Your on the same team remember. 
Don’t wish for the next stage even if the current stage is super difficult try to find the silver lining for that stage. Aka 2 year olds 😂 
Don’t mommy shame! Also don’t let anyone shame you!

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Make sure you and your partner are in the same page. Communicate and take turns of you can.
No matter how much you love each other right now, no matter how great your relationship is, no matter how much you both wanted a baby.
A newborn will test your relationship 1000%. You will bicker more than normal and you will be on edge more than normal. This is when communication is a big ass deal.

What’s one thing you wish someone would’ve told you before having a child?

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