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Like just looking at her face makes me feel more satisfaction than I ever have felt about anything. And she’s still a baby, so if it’s true as other commenters say that things will get even better when she gets older, this is an even better deal than I thought.

I don’t know what’s going on with your friends, but personally, my kid just makes me so, so happy, all the time. When people talk about how hard parenting is, to me it sounds like complaining about paying $100K for a Manhattan penthouse. Sure, on some absolute scale, $100K is a lot of money. But you’re still getting an unbelievably good deal!

Going to take a slightly different tone here. I suggest that when data stresses you out, consider another piece of data, like this: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past . In all times and places, until about a century ago, half of children died before puberty. Literally half. Whatever problems we have today, plastics or anything else, they are nothing compared to the unbelievable fortune of parenting in a developed nation in the 21st century. The world is awesome and it’s time to appreciate it.