I was a stepmom before I was a mom. So my first child was my husband's third child. 

I have two kids and two stepkids with a pretty fair age-gap between them and bringing everybody together as a family was harder than expected. 

I was surprised at how isolating motherhood was ... I was never alone and also felt alone. I did not have depression. 

The second birth was much faster than expected and without pain relief which was not at all my plan ...but it is how it went. :-)

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