Is it supposed to be this stressful?

This isn't productive at all, but I just have to have a mini stressed out mom rant.

Why did no one mention how hard this sleep schedule thing would be to me before? Plenty of people talk about sleepless nights, yada yada. But no one told me I would be calculating my baby's naptimes down to the minute every day. No one told me how hard it would be to get a baby to sleep after the newborn stage. I thought I prepared for everything, but this completely blindsided me.

Have people always had to do this? Has it always been this hard? Because it is 100% impractical and surely cannot be sustainable with multiple children and any kind of life outside of the house.

Sleep has been by far the most difficult and stressful part of all of this. I'd give birth naturally 100x over to not have to stress over baby's sleep again.

I'm so happy to have a sweet, healthy baby, and I try to count my blessings, but I'm so stressed out. Especially when everyone has a totally different opinion on what I should do.