Or you end up with two babies :rofl1:
Honestly I can't even comment on this. I have no idea how hard it is with one. We got lucky that we didn't have one that screamed non stop though.. but yeah it took twice the time to do everything. But we bottle fed so we were able to stick to a schedule more or less, by just adjusting times as they grew older, which is probably much harder if you breastfeed.
Either way, it's an adjustment for sure. We had to give one of our dogs away because we couldn't leave him with the babies (he snapped at them and had resource guarding issues) but he would bark for hours if gated away (and we lived in an apartment then). And you have to change your priorities - at least when they are little. It's fine to tell your 4yo that he has to wait a couple minutes for a snack before you finish something, but you can't quite do that with a baby, obviously.
But the lack of sleep was the worst, but again... two babies. Twice the time for changes/feeding at night, we ended up having to wake the other up to feed him/her too when one woke up so we would actually get some sleep... We both ended up having hallucinations :rofl1: But we got lucky because they were sleeping through the night (12 hours) at 6 months or something.
My only regret is that it was totally crazy and I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have because of it. I kinda wish I had got the single baby experience - but quite honestly I like my kids better now than they are older and you can actually talk to them and trust them not to destroy the house if you have something to do. So, it's ok if you're not a baby/little kid person... they will grow up :rofl1: