Itching for a new baby already??

RomeRomance06 · January 2012

DD isn't even a year old yet and I'm already feeling like I'm ready for another one! Tongue Tied

This from the girl who wasn't even sure she wanted more than one to begin with. Yikes. Guess I'll have to put these crazy uterus twinges on hold for a while. I said something about wanting another baby to DH last night and his answer was, "You already have one." Snarky bastard.

mssaint · January 2012

Wow, I am so not there. And if we were going to have another, we really need to get started now (age, IF issues, etc.).

Every time we talk about it, we talk ourselves out of it pretty quickly.

tomandcourt · January 2012

It took me until about 15 months--J was no longer nursing, we were all sleeping through the night. I think I was finally well-rested enough to consider it, plus at that stage he really didn't seem like a "baby" anymore. That was a year ago!

DCtoLowcountry · January 2012

I started daydreaming about #2 when DS1 was 8 months old. I think it's something about the acquisition of skills - sitting up, crawling, pulling to stand - that made me think about having another itty bitty baby.

RomeRomance06 · January 2012

DCtoLowcountry:
I started daydreaming about #2 when DS1 was 8 months old. I think it's something about the acquisition of skills - sitting up, crawling, pulling to stand - that made me think about having another itty bitty baby.

Yeah, I was watching her play last night while I was making dinner and she's such a little girl! She has pigtails (hair is really long) and she sits and "reads" books and I just think about when I would hold her all snuggly... I also stopped BFing this week so that could be part of it. I'm sure it's completely hormonal.

mssaint · January 2012

I think about it and then I think, OMG no. I can't deal with the newborn stage yet.

But I confess that seeing how sweet LO is with our cat, I can imagine him being very snuggly with a little brother or sister.

Hey Jellisy · January 2012

I really pined for number 2 long before DD turned 1. DH and I had agreed to wait till DD turned 1 before trying and it made me ache having to wait. I will say, I am not yet pining for number 3 and DS is already 1. I think it has to do with sleeping. DD was much better at it than DS.

anna12 · January 2012

Ha! It took us 5 YEARS to even have the discussion about #2, and then a year after that to actually do it. While I had an easy labor with #1, I had a very long and painful recovery. (I remember finding out that a friend was expecting #2 ~8months after #1, and joked to my husband that I didn't even think we were having sex at that point yet. I was kidding, but he told me that it was actually about 7 or 8 months when we "started up" again. Yikes. For FTM's, my recovery was not normal. Don't be afraid!)

That said, I can totally understand the desire to have another "baby" as LO starts growing up and becoming his own person! Those first signs of independence are harder than the later ones, I think!

vtkgirl77 · January 2012

I totally understand. That's why some people (including myself) have 2u2.

For me what was crazy was that right after I had DD#2, I really wanted to try for #3 within the next year. However, that thought quickly faded and now I'm not even sure if I can do a third.

SoonToBeMrsDTS · January 2012

I also started wanting a second when DD was about 8 months old. We started TTC when she was 9 months old and got pregnant a few weeks after she turned 1. I never thought I would have wanted 2u2 but we did it and we survived. It was a looooong time until that urge hit me again after I had DS, he cured me of my desire for a newborn for a long time!!

belizeitornot · January 2012

i confess i started talking about #2 long before H turned one. i was definitely in the "we'll see how the first one goes before we decide if we want more" camp before kids, and then probably once she hit 6 months i was like, ok, i want another.

i agree with DCtoLow that it probably has something to do with her becoming less "newborn" and more "baby" .... and then toddler. i've said repeatedly to myself "for the next one, i'll do more of this" (like remembering to fill out the baby book, take more video, more family pictures) after she hit a new milestone and i realized i didn't document the previous one well enough.

i don't want another bad enough to actually DO anything about it right now, but given the trouble we had conceiving H, we'll probably start trying before she turns 2. (and DH was actually the one who suggested we start sooner rather than later, which totally blew my mind)

Artslvr · January 2012

Go for it! Join the Two Under Two club! Devil

Sofka · January 2012

Just go for it, mine are just under 20mo apart and while it can be challenging, especially during the 1st year of the 2nd baby's life, it's also awesome (and when isn't it challenging). GO FOR IT

slukd79 · January 2012

I got the itch around 12 months, which coincided with big milestones: we stopped nursing, she was walking and talking like a real little girl... We ended up with a surprise when DD was around 18-19 months. Anyway, my 2 will end up being about 26 months apart. I can't comment on how it is to deal with 2 that close, but I am hoping we survive!

kafunder · January 2012

I think a lot of moms get the itch around 8-12 months b/c it's such a great age. It's probably why there are so many siblings 18-20 months apart. At that age, they're just starting to get mobile, sleeping and eating better, etc. and you think, wow, I could do this again.

We felt that way around that age too and at 12 months started TTC#3. However, the whininess and tantrums at 16-months old sometimes make me think, what the heck are we doing!?! Wink

umdbride · January 2012

Around 7 months old I started getting SO nostalgic and dreamy-eyed about being PG and having another. I really thought I was going a little crazy because I was really not a happy PG lady and it wasn't like life with DS is super easy. I think as PPs said it was that he was finally STTN pretty well (or at least with just a dream feed), was getting so much more fun, and was generally easier to manage because we finally got into some real routines, etc.

We have a "plan" for TTC2 starting late this summer, but I was feeling like, "why not start early?!" There are a lot of logical reasons for us to stick to our plan but it was hard to remember sometimes. Only lately has it finally settled down and I don't feel quite so baby crazy.

Mrs.Handy · January 2012

I've been itching for awhile, but we're determined to buy a house before we have another. Alas we wait until at the end of this year before we start trying!

My heart wants to be pregnant now, but my head knows it is best to wait until we have our ducks in a row.

northernvabride · January 2012

As I sit here 7 mo pregnant with #3 (we'll have 3 under 4), I can totally relate. I always thought I wanted kids who were 3 years apart, seemed like a good age gap. Then when DD#1 was 10 months old I had a surprise BFP and m/c (boo), but it made me realize I was ready, so soon after got pg again and had DD#2 with a 21 month gap. Then when DD#2 was around a year we started having the talk again, since I realized I wanted 3 kids, not just 2 (always thought I wanted 2), and BFP quickly followed, and there will be a 23 month gap between DD#2 and DD#3. I know it will be a lot to handle, but I really like how close in age the first two girls are, so I really wanted to do the same thing again, even if it will mean a crazy few years....I wouldn't change anything, but the number of grey hairs it is giving me. :-)

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