Kim Kardashian: Having two kids "really is so hard"

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Carolyn Robertson

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Everybody warned her that baby #2 would mean a lot more work, but Kim Kardashian-West admits she didn't really get it... until now.

With her son Saint now 2 months old, the reality star admits that she's finding the adjustment to two kids pretty tough.

“I’m up at 4 a.m., pumping and delirious, hiding in my daughter’s closet because if she sees I snuck out of her bed, she will start to cry," reads Kim's recent blog post. "My mom would always say, about having kids: 'One is like one, and two are like twenty.' I never really understood that until now."

It's not just the demands of a newborn that are keeping Kim up at night: "Every waking second that I’m not with the baby, I’m with North," she adds of her 2-year-old daughter North. "I actually think the harder parts aren’t with the newborn but with the toddler! I feel like I go into overdrive to give my daughter attention and make her feel loved."

Kim says that her husband Kanye West has been helping out, but it's still a challenge meeting the needs of a family-of-four.

"Of course, I expected it to be different but, wow, it really is so hard!" she says. "When I had North, all I did was feed and sleep. This time around, I get no sleep."

I found the adjustment to my first baby to be much harder than it was with the second. Baby #2 definitely means less sleep - good luck "napping when the baby naps" when you have a preschooler running around the house - but at least I had some idea what to expect. I knew what it felt like to be up all night, to console a constantly crying infant. And the second time around I knew that those very tough first weeks and months wouldn't last forever. Having that perspective made a big difference.

The spacing between kids likely has a lot to do with how hard that transition is. My oldest was 4 years old when her sister was born: Old enough to get herself dressed, to have a little patience, to help out with the baby. Had she been 2 at the time, our experience probably would have been vastly different!

As for Kim, for now she's taking it day by day and hoping that things will settle into a new normal before too long.

"I know we will soon get into the perfect groove and just figure it out. My mom did, my sister did — and I will, too," she says.

What did you find harder? Going from zero to one kid? Or from one to two?

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