When do you want to start trying for the next baby?

StephanieAnnLee · January 2015

I'm starting an obstetric fellowship in August. I was so sick with DS that I had to leave the OR multiple times while assisting with C-sections. The fellowship is a year long so we will probably start trying toward the end. I'll be 30 then so we can still squeeze a third child in before 35 if we decide to

ariel06 · January 2015

Not sure if we'll have a 4th, but we'll probably decide after LO is atleast 1.

andrieya · January 2015

I always wanted 3 kids 3 years apart--but now I totally get why my siblings and I are 5 years apart! I think I only want two now though.

vrj0522 · January 2015

We'll go for #3 when DD is a year old. It took us a year to conceive last time so we don't want to risk waiting until she is older to start trying. Ideally they'd be 2 years apart. I'm AMA so that is a driver for it; otherwise we'd wait until DD was closer to 2 yrs old.

RockyNFrankie · January 2015

I chosen SS because we are undecided. I was really hoping for twins because I didn't want an only child and I didn't want to go through fertility treatments or pregnancy twice. So if we decide to have another we will start trying either this August or August 2016 in hopes that the same protocol will work within the first few months and I won't have to be pregnant all summer again.

beachbumsc · January 2015

We talked about this last night. We are going to start trying for #2 in June/July. Both of my sisters have kids with close age gaps. One set is 15 months apart and other is 18 months apart. It's tough at first, but then they constantly entertain each other. One of the sets are now 2 and 3 and they are best friends. I hated being pregnant, so I'm shocked I already have baby fever. I'm hoping the next one will be easier since I'll have a better idea of what to expect.

BeanNut · January 2015

I want #4 but I'm not sure we can handle it lol. If we do try, it will be when DS is about 18 months. My first two are 19 months apart and my second two are 25 months apart. The bigger age gap is definitely easier. I would wait even longer except I am already high risk so I don't also want to be AMA.

Virginialeigh · January 2015

I was dead set on first never having kids, then I met DH and he loves kids, so i thought only one. Then, thinking only children are lonely, only having two. Now that the first one is here I'm thinking three. DH on the other hand is sticking fast to only two, and I have a feeling he's starting to lean to just the one. My sister told me the other day " I don't know if you remember this, but before Tom-Tom was born you told me if after you give birth you started saying you wanted more kids I was to remind you you really don't." I don't remember telling her that, but three seems to me to be the perfect number.

RockyNFrankie · January 2015

Virginialeigh said:

I was dead set on first never having kids, then I met DH and he loves kids, so i thought only one. Then, thinking only children are lonely, only having two. Now that the first one is here I'm thinking three. DH on the other hand is sticking fast to only two, and I have a feeling he's starting to lean to just the one. My sister told me the other day " I don't know if you remember this, but before Tom-Tom was born you told me if after you give birth you started saying you wanted more kids I was to remind you you really don't." I don't remember telling her that, but three seems to me to be the perfect number.

This was both of us. Neither of us wanted any kids. Then we started thinking maybe we wanted one in time. Then we decided we would like one sometime soon. Well it took us 2 years but I really wanted twins while DH is an only child and completely ok with only one. I don't want only one. Im still not fully convinced I want to go through it all again but after having DS I could see 1 or 2 more. Things certainly change over time especially after having a child.

sas2551 · January 2015

OMG never!!!! we'll that's what I'd have said a few weeks ago, but who knows.....I'm old and about a fertile as a baked chicken though, so probably not on the cards anyway. I said never again just after delivery, and the nurse joked that her last patient said "hope to see you again real soon" as she was checking out!

savicke2009 · January 2015

We're not doing anything to prevent right now- which is actually slightly insane.. my husband wanted to be done at 2, now here we are with 3, and I heard him tell aubrey today, "we're going to make another one of you and have two boys and two girls".. oh well no shit? Haha, we are unicorns when it comes to getting pregnant (staying pregnant isnt as easy for us.. we're 3 for 5) ideally id like to wait until aubrey is at least a year before we try- then she & #4 would be spaced like 1 & 2 (22months).. and then we would likely be done

Mewwwwws · January 2015

I'd like to try now,as I'm 34. But we are not really doing the BD now so... That's unlikely to happen. And probably for the best anyway to give my body some time to recover. When cycle returns then we will try actively.

hippohat · January 2015

Not planning any more! I love the spacing of our two so far- about 3.5 years apart. I had time to be with just DD, and now she's old enough to understand what's going on and is a really helpful big sister.

N&J62814 · January 2015

I would like to try again in about 2 years. My dh wants this to be it since we had boy/girl twins. But I really want 4 kids but will compromise with the hubby and try one more time. Maybe we'll get twins again!!!!

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