re: Did your wife change after your first kid?

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Yo is this real? A good friend of mine was telling me how his brother’s wife completely changed in personality after having their first child. A couple years later they had their second, and she went right back to her old self, and they’re both great now. My friend said it was hormone related as well. The first kid fricked it up, and the second one corrected it. I always thought this was a bunch of bs, but maybe it’s an actual thing. Weird.

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It's likely a form of postpartum depression, which is very real. My wife struggled with it after our 2nd child. I came home one day on my lunch break to find her laying on the couch just staring at the ceiling while the baby was in her crib screaming crying. Wife said she just couldn't find the motivation to get up and tend to the baby and collapsed on the floor crying herself. Pretty scary situation, but the doctor talked me through it and assured me it was not abnormal. She was on anti-depressants for a year or two.