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There are some significant differences in the parenting experience when you've already done it once.
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Before you become a parent there are many things that would have you cringing and shaking your head in disgust that, post children, you think nothing of.
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Part of me wishes I knew then what I know now, as I realise that my firstborn was wasted on me for so many reasons.
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So many of us know that the drudgery and repetition of parenthood can wear a mum or dad down.
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As a stay-at-home father, I anticipated the physical exhaustion from caring for an infant but I had little understanding about the emotional toll.
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