Oh love, I'm sorry things are so hard for you at the moment.

I want to drive up to wherever far away it is you live and give you a friendly slap in the face. You know that you can't and shouldn't be comparing two kids,. All kids are different and your daughter has seemingly developed her own personality that is high maintenance. I'm sure she'll make a great diva one day.

FWIW DS1 didn't say any words at all until he was 18 or 19 months. Now at 2.5 we can't shut him up. Yak, yak, yak all the time. He's really ahead of the curve now.

I breastfed DS1 for around 6 weeks so much less booby juice here. I can't see that he's suffering at all for it. I also worked out he hasn't eaten a single vegetable for 3 days now. Oh well.

I had the same age gap between kids and as I got closer to the birth DS1 got more feral. To be honest, it was a very very hard time for me as he slowly changed from this lovely baby to this horrible toddler. He's only really settled down in the last few months or so. I don't say that to scare you, just so you have an idea of what it might be like.

Anything else that is worrying you?