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Howard
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So much depends on how your situation plays out.
A mate had their baby in the summer who was particularly easy, and all our friends lived near each other a the time. This meant they could just walk to a local (which was local to everyone else) and hang out with a sleeping baby that periodically needed to be fed and changed.
Conversely ours had sever cholic for the first 4 months and cried almost solidly if awake. It's hard to practically go places in that situation - even before get to the mental health side - then when you do it involves one of you going off to a corner to rock the baby until either they sleep or you go home. Once that passed they were super active and frustrated, so again going anywhere necessitated stimulation which made engaging with the people you're with impossible.
We'd always planned to be relaxed parents using routines only as a rough framework. Unfortunately it's turned our that Hugo2.0 is a happier more manageable baby with a fairly rigid regime.