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cjsbdl
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oh my word...4 under 3!
cjsbdl
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I sometimes read the Baby Bunching blog and there is a post there today from a woman who is expecting twins and has a not-yet-3-year-old and a 19-month old.
Aggggggggggghhhhhhh.
I would seriously curl up in a ball and cry.
Disclaimer: of course all babies are blessings, but having 2u2 is tough enough. I cannot even begin to imagine wrangling four babies under three years of age.
ETA: Is there anyone on this board in that situation? I seriously do not mean to offend.
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Re: oh my word...4 under 3!
I saw your post title and thought you were going to tell us that you were knocked up with twins!!
LOL.
yeah, I don't know how people do it. I don't think I could even do twins. MoMs are my heroes.
bite your tongue! bite your tongue! bite your tongue!
We are D.O.N.E. DH is getting snipped next month to ensure it.
I would do it. I think the tiny baby stage is so fleeting and temporary that I was never worried about having kids close in age. Yeah, it sucks the first couple of years, but then the kids all play together because they are so close. And I think stuff like that just tends to work itself it out.
So really, in 3 or 4 years, parenting would be easier because they could play with each other! *just kidding*
My cousin had 4 under 1.5 :-)
Her son wasn't quite 1 when she spontaniously became pregnant with triplet girls. Delivered at almost 36 weeks... never had any help and lived 40 minutes away from all family. She is super organized and actually just went back to school to become a nurse or something for "fun." Her husband is a dentist- they live on a lake with a pool and they have 9 cats and dogs. LMAO... maybe she isn't sane!
Married 8.13.2005, M/C 12/8/06- 5 weeks, M/C 2/27/07- 7 weeks, M/C w/ D&C 8/10/09-6.5 weeks *Charles Lawrence born 5/2/08 @ 3:14am, 7lb 8oz, 20.5 inches. Clomid, Crinone and baby aspirin. *Alexandra Claire born 9/14/10 @ 9:52am 6lb 14oz, 20.5 inches. Femara, Crinone and baby aspirin.
And there you go. I am NOT super organized - nor am I graceful enough to ever be able to manage something like this with any semblance of normalcy. I would lose my mind, and it would NOT be pretty.
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
This!
I want to curl up in a ball and cry for that woman. I would be losing my mind. G-d bless her!
a friend of a friend (lol) has 3 girls (3,2,1) and she's pregnant with triplets- all girls.
her husband says he's doomed.
look at the birds | bless this food
That would be my MIL. Married in aug of 74, first in june of 75, second in june 76 (BIL was born 1 week before SIL turned 1 eek) and then identical twins in oct 77. DH is one of the twins. Plus they had 60 cows to milk twice a day. MIL told me the story that she was too embarrassed to tell her mom, she stopped returning phone calls and finally GMIL showed up at MIL's door to see what was going on. MIL was then 6-7 mos pg and had to admit there were two in there.
I've always wondered how they just shut it down then. Obviously they are super fertile
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It blows my mind.
My aunt and uncle were older when they got married and had TTTC. They ended up with 4 under 3 (one 5 months shy of her 3rd birthday, one 13 month old and newborn twins) courtesy of clomid. And then surprise! got pregnant again 5 months later, so had 5 kids, 4 and under. (A month away from 5 kids 3 and under!!) I remember their house being a zoo!
My gf in MA will have 4u4 for about 2 months. She has "irish twins" a boy who is 3 (turning 4) and 2 yr old boy who will turn 3 in August...there birthdays are exactly like a week of each other..
She then has a little girl who just turned 1 in March and is due with her 4th in like 2 weeks..doesn't know what she is having. SHe has been pg for 4 yrs straight and has had 4 c-sections! Just crazy to me! I don't know how she does it or affords it!
:: gasp ::
"When it comes to sleeping, whatever your baby does is normal. If one thing has damaged parents enjoyment of their babies, it's rigid expectations about how and when the baby should sleep." ~ James McKenna, Ph.D., Mother Baby Behavioral Sleep Center, University of Notre Dame
LMAO- I so thought this too!! From infertile to fertile myrtle!
"I have four children. Two are adopted. I forget which two. -Bob Constantine
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