If you're not TTC, but want another baby

Smellygirl · July 2010

When will you start trying again? I don't want 2U2 (too hard!!), so I think we'll start trying when DS is 18-19 months old - around January.

NDwife07 · July 2010

Our current "plan" (knowing full well you can't really plan this stuff) is to start TTC when DD is about 16-18m with the hope of having a fall baby.

That being said, DH's work situation may be changing so we may push that back a bit if we have to move. Le sigh.

**Gretchen** · July 2010

Our plan was October, but it might get pushed back as much as a year. Damn expensive daycare.

Princess_Lily · July 2010

When I loose 20+lbs. we will start to TTC again.

finances will be in order too by the time that point hits - maybe 6-12months. In the meantime my baby fever has dulled since DS was born.

We want to, but we're not in a rush anymore like when we were itching with DS

oscarkat · July 2010

We're starting again in Sept...2u2 will be interesting if it happens, I'm sure!

Lisichka · July 2010

We would like to move into a bigger place before we start trying for another one. And I did want a larger gap between the kids anyway (my sister and I are a little less than 2 years apart and are super close now, but I was extremely jealous when she was born). We're thinking 4 years difference (give or take), so a few months after DD turns 3.

FirefightersBride · July 2010

We probably won't start trying until at least january when he's 18mos, but I'd really like to wait until he's 2 to start trying.

LLB430 · July 2010

Want to enjoy just having dd for as long as possible, which isn't as long as I would like due to my age. So we will start ttc next spring hoping for a 3 year age difference.

BelleBaby · July 2010

We're thinking of starting to try for #3 in a couple of months. Maybe September-October? The boys will be 16 months old then.

christiney06 · July 2010

a while, probably Fall of '11? I would love to be in a house and not an apt. by then. plus I want DS to be around 3yrs old.

Rizzo5 · July 2010

Not relly sure. One thing I do know is that I want to be able to either work PT or not at all for a bit the 2nd time around (I learned after having DD that for me FT work is just not what I want) so we are trying to figure that out first. Probably at least another year or more before we start trying. We also want to move out of the city close to a better school district. We like where we live but the public schools suck and there is no way we could affort private.

Stellasmom · July 2010

We're going to start trying in November, just before DS's second birthday.

jen_and_scott · July 2010

Hopefully December, if I'm off my medications by then.

TKx2 · July 2010

Hopefully next summer. We wanted to TTC this summer, but we weren't able to move back to our hometown this spring like we had hoped b/c the housing market sucks. We can't afford a second one in daycare here (it would be $2200 a month for 2 of them) so we have to wait until we can move. Sucks cause I didn't want them almost 4 years apart.

LuvinMyKids · July 2010

We are still up in the air about a 5th child (but I have had the "fever" really badly lately!). If we do try for another, it would not be until DS2 is at LEAST 2 1/2 - 3 years old. I really like the 33 month spacing between our #3 & #4 kids (much more than the 27 month spacing between #2 & #3!) and would like to have at least that with our next, if there is another. Also, I figure that I'd really have some nice "alone" time with the baby if we have that gap, since by that time DS2 would be in preschool

Being that it would be baby #5 for us, I have the advantage of really knowing the spacing that would work for our family!

pumpkin_head · July 2010

We're not officially trying, but since we had some trouble conceiving DD, I think we'll be getting more serious about it shortly. I got really sick w/ DD, so I have to gear up for that if I get pg soon! Not fun!

bellaciao · July 2010

We were originally planning to wait until DS turned 2 - but now it's looking like we'll have to wait until May 2012 for insurance reasons (long story, but it involves a recent job change I made and the fact that I had cancer back in 2006). Anyway, it kind of bums me out that we have to wait that long (DS will be almost 3!), but, hey, what can you do?

katypresson · July 2010

Same here!!! We're gonna start TTC next spring - around March or April!!!!

runnergirl2008 · July 2010

That pack of pills I finish in November will be my last this time around.

Mrs.BLG · July 2010

Probably not until DS is almost 3. DH is unemployed right now and I am also looking for a FT job. So, until we both get jobs and I have been at my job long enough to get FMLA, we can't TTC.

Soon2BMrsN · July 2010

Not sure. We falter between now, never, and anytime in between. We'll probably have a surprise BFP again and, really, that's the way we'd prefer it.

jolis_petits_bijoux · July 2010

I told DH that I need one year of uninterrupted sleep before considering it.

The year hasn't started yet (DS is cutting his molars, and is waking at least once a night lately)

mrs.k 07 · July 2010

We are going to start trying in November. I quit taking BC last month to get ready!

BelleBaby · July 2010

jolis_petits_bijoux:
I told DH that I need one year of uninterrupted sleep before considering it. The year hasn't started yet (DS is cutting his molars, and is waking at least once a night lately)

Ha! I'm taking the opposite stance--I'm already not sleeping, so why not? At least it won't be a shock to my system!

als33 · July 2010

we plan on starting TTC in January 2012. i want DD fully potty trained before i go down that awful road of pregnancy again!

CalinsBride · July 2010

The plan is to start TTC when DS is 3 or 4, so the kids would be four to five years apart. I'd like to start when he's 3 because that's when I get my IUD out anyway, and I feel like 5 years difference is verging on too many, but DH wants to wait until he's four. So we'll see.