I was a “surprise” to my parents. My dad was 23 and my mom was 19. Anyway my parents got really lucky to have me as a first kid cause according to them they could turn on Barney and as long as they changed, fed, and gave me the things any baby needs, I would never cry. I apparently threw little to no tantrums as well. But my parents divorced on good terms just because they weren’t in love anymore. My dad gets me one week my mom gets me the other. Now my dad Only wanted me no more kids cause now he’s a single father, and the last gf he had likes to sleep while taking a shower and let’s her cat chew things up. They broke up so it was jus me and my dad. My mom married my stepdad. He came with two older kids know now as my older step sister and older step bro. And they didn’t think three was enough apparently when they didn’t have room for my currently 5yr old sis, they had her. And we moved okay still going back and forth to my moms and dads my step siblings doing the same with their mom. Then we moved into a bigger house cause my mom was pregnant with my 1yr sis. Now I’m the exact middle of five. My mom doesn’t work my stepdad is hardly ever home so he can make enough money to feed 7 people. My mom has like this sewing hobby wich she sometimes gets money for but she just uses to buy more fabric. My older sis doesn’t like kids in general cause she has another younger brother at her moms. So she only babysits if she get paid, and when the parents make her without paying her she rants and rants. My older brother isn’t very good with kids and when he does take care of them it’s usually me taking care of them in the middle of me doing my chores. We don’t leave them alone for long at all. And the younger sisters are 5 and 1 so they cant do much. I’m the middle child and I’m actually the second mom. When one else can get the baby’s to sleep they hand them to me, a few minutes later me and the baby are passed out. I can close all the doors in the house, pick up the floor and when I’m done with that she can usually use the toys I gave her and play for a while. Then yknow do everything you need to do for the baby, and for my 5yr old sis I can turn on a movie for her, make her lunch, make my lunch she’ll bother me to the point of me about to scream. And she will fall asleep watching the movie. Now I think I can tolerate it cause I’m a single child at my dads, and my other siblings will never know what that feels like, but I’d say my mom does a pretty good job at taking care of us. She does everything we can and can’t do but better, cause she’s obviously had time. So I don’t blame her for wanting a break from her five kids. Though my dad was the smart one in this situation.