I like your analysis of family life. My older girls had to change diapers too (and they hated it.)
Due to medication I was taking I could not breastfeed, but all my children who have my grandkids have breastfed. So I still must have done something right.
I'd say so! Five children married and having children is pretty impressive! I'm always impressed by anyone whose children have turned out functional - including my parents, I suppose, since my brother and I are both self-supporting good citizens.
It used to be (stepping on my soapbox) that it was just expected that people would get married and have children. Now, it seems that the default position is people will NOT have children, and if you do have children, continue having them (as is the natural thing into one's 40s) then you're an extremist of some kind, or a saint.
NO WAI I'm a saint. I yell at people and drink too much wine and slaver over Tom Selleck and Bibi Netanyahu, and FReep when I should be doing something more useful. I just have kids. They're normal kids, not perfect kids. Homeschooling isn't making them exemplary kids: Anoreth was never a diligent student, and she had her papers signed for the Coast Guard a week after turning 18. Bill wants to be a cook. None of the "Oooh, Harvard!" stuff ... if anything, they've picked up my farm-kid bias and think Harvard is mincy ;-).
Things are just weird in our culture.