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Kim Kardashian reveals struggles of having 2 kids: 'Pumping and delirious'

Kardashian wrote that she and her husband, 38-year-old hip-hop star Kanye West, had been warned parenthood would take a dramatic turn with the arrival of a second child.
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Kim Kardashian West has fame and fortune, but the reality-TV star contends they don't make caring for her two children an easy task.

In a Wednesday blog post on her website, the famous 35-year-old mom of 2½-year-old daughter North and 2-month-old son Saint reported being awake, "pumping and delirious," at 4 a.m.

"I'm … hiding in my daughter's closet," reads the open line of her update, "because if she sees I snuck out of her bed, she will start to cry AND I think she gave me a cold so I figure no better time to write a #StraightUp [post] than now!"

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Kardashian wrote that she and her husband, 38-year-old hip-hop star Kanye West, had been warned parenthood would take a dramatic turn with the arrival of a second child. Issuing one of those warnings was her own mother, Kris Jenner.

"My mom would always say, about having kids: 'One is like one, and two are like 20.' I never really understood that until now," the post reads. "It seemed like every time Kanye and I would go out, we would see couples — or really anybody that had kids — and everyone would say, 'Wait until you have two.' Like it's the end of the world! I remember Kanye and I would be like, '[What] are they talking about? Will our lives be the same? Are we going to be OK?!'"

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Kardashian West "expected" it to be different, but admitted she didn't realize just how hard it would be to care for North and Saint at the same time.

"When I had North, all I did was feed and sleep," the update reads. "This time around, I get no sleep. Every waking second that I'm not with the baby, I'm with 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."

Her husband, however, has eased the burden, as has Penelope Disick, the 3-year-old daughter of Kim's older sister and "Keeping up with the Kardashians" co-star, Kourtney.

"Kanye is super helpful, taking North out to dinners (just them!), and I'm so lucky North looks up to Penelope a lot," the post reads. "She also has a baby brother so she gives North the best advice. I have the cutest video of P giving North a heart to heart about being a good big sister."

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Even something as routine as feeding has been "challenging" to Kardashian West, who does her best to do that while multitasking.

Her post concludes: "Being late and running behind gives me anxiety, but 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."

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