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As a counterpoint, with our two older kids (we have a baby too), I felt like my time was most drained during the 0-6 months stage. After that we got into good routines with them sleeping for 12 hours at night, and that brought back most of my most precious time.

My oldest is 5, and we're just now reaching the point where he's wanting to stay up later into our adult time, but in my experience there are a lot of comfortable years that were better than the immobile stage.