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TerraCotta210
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Does your DH also have BIG TIME babies on the brain?
TerraCotta210
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Happy Sunday evening ladies (and work tomorrow, BOOOO).
Anyway, I'm sure that most of us (if not all) are suffering from major "baby on the brain syndrome" to the point where it is often difficult to think of anything else. Errr, well - hopefully it's not just me, lol. What about everyone's DH? Are they going as baby crazy as we are??
My DH is definitely excited, but certainly not as vocal as I am about TTC. Of course, he is also under the silly assumption that he has super sperm and that we won't need more than a month of unprotected sex to get pregnant. Ohhhh, poor, unfortunate and incredibly UNINFORMED husband. I just have to shake my head and walk away, lmao.
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Re: Does your DH also have BIG TIME babies on the brain?
DH is excited, but it's definitely not on his mind all the time like it tends to be on mine. And now that we're dealing with IF (MFI at that), it's all I can do NOT to think about our options, chances, etc., but DH isn't worried in any way, shape, or form. He thinks I am insane for worrying at all. I think he's convinced the Clomid he's taking will allow us to conceive by TI. I'm less optimistic, and I try to explain to him that the odds are stacked against us, but he thinks I'm just being a Negative Nancy.
Edited for spelling.
We just got into a little argument about this today.
I know MH is excited about having a baby, but after a year of TTC, I think we're both just a bit burnt out on it.
I wanted MH to be as excited as I was, and I'm sure he was, he just didn't spend hours looking at the best strollers or cutest baby names. After a year of just talking about it though, I got a little upset that he isn't and hasn't been talking about singing to the baby and all that mushy stuff.
LOL, I definitely hear ya'! I wish I had DH's easy going attitude sometimes. He thinks I stress and over-analyze way too much.
I know, and it hasn't really bothered me until recently. I think it's just hitting the one year mark, and knowing we only have one more month before taking a break is getting to me, and it didn't seem like he was bothered by it. (Which he is, but like you said, people have different ways of dealing with things)
*nodding head* Yep, that's my DF. I've told him that it could take months or years, especially considering that I'm 36. He's convinced that his sperm are so powerful that I will be impregnated with an entire litter of babies at the mere thought of TTC.
Also, like your DH, he's excited but not nearly as vocal and/or obsessed as I am.
DD1 EDD 08/18/01, born 08/03/2001 ~ 9lbs 10oz, 21.5 in
DS1 EDD 4/30/2004, born 05/04/2004 ~ 10lbs, 22 in
mc 02/14/12 @ 5 weeks
DD2 EDD 12/25/12, born 12/30/12 ~ 10lbs 11oz, 21.25 in
mc 12/05/15 @ 12 weeks
Cautiously expecting 12/02/16
MH is the one freaking out..thinking there is something wrong with us, mostly me! I am the calm, sensible, yet a little frustrated, one. He has wanted to have children for a while now...so when it didn't just happen, like it did for many of our friends, he was a little disapointed!
Dx PCOS 2002...500mgs metformin
DH spends more time talking about it and looking things up than I do. He definitely has babies on the brain 24/7
Me: 37, DH: 36
Started TTC #1: 9/2015
Preliminary labs/testing @ 6 months: TSH, A1c, progesterone, prolactin, SA, HSG all normal
BFP: 5/19/2016, M/C: 5/29/2016
BFP: 6/22/2016 EDD 3//6/2017
Married Bio * BFP Charts
DH says 'baby time?' at least once a day... no always in reference to sex, but wanting to have one so badly!
He tells me all the time, the funny names he is going to call them and all the games they are going to play, movies he wants to have them watch, books he wants them to have... it's precious!
CD3 & 7DPO B/W Normal except TSH - Low
Dx Autoimmune Thyroid Disease - 8/2011
Married my love 6/11/11 | MMC 10/11/11 | Eliza Frances born 9/18/12 | Rhett Garland born 2/24/14
My H is definitely super excited about having a baby! He has dreams about me being pregnant, or about us having a newborn all the time. He also chose a boy name (that is slowly growing on me) and a girl name (we agreed on this one). He is very ready to be a dad, which I am happy about because he is 6 years younger than I and I was worried he wouldn't be ready for awhile. He is the one who came to me about stopping the pill almost a year ago.
Oh, and for the record: he frequently goes online window shopping for nursery items and has already refinished my old childhood dresser for our future baby..
This.
When we decided to start TTC, I asked if he would be excited as me when I got pregnant. He said he didn't think it was possible for him to be as excited as I would be. : ) Which is probably true.
He thinks it's cart before horse to get excited, plan, even really talk that much about babies until we get a BFP. He'll occasionally say something about it, but that's rare.