Well I had my baby girl on Jan 3rd 6 hours before her actual due date. Labor was rough but worth every ounce of pain. She will be 2 months old here on March 3rd I keep getting an overwhelming urge to want another baby already this has been happening since her birth. Some days I just want to wait and enjoy our time with her first and some days I want to go through it all over again for another baby. We had two previous miscarriages before we got her so maybe it's just that I'm so happy and blessed I can't wait to experience it again. Anyone else like this?
Re: Wanting Another
I want more children, but I want to ensure this baby gets the individual attention he needs while he's at his most dependent and vulnerable age. We are waiting at least one year to get pregnant again.
Again, I love both babies, and there are pros to having them close in age, but it is extremely challenging.
ETA: sorry, that turned into a "don't do it" troll really fast. Totally not intended. Babies are great, but if it were me doing it over again, I'd spend every second I could enjoying DS before even thinking about another.
DS2 (1 month old) is a great, easy going baby but I feel like I've been pregnant forever and want to spend a few months not pregnant or breastfeeding before we try for #3. DS1 is 18 months old, got pregnant while breastfeeding him and continued well into my second trimester. Now I've got another year of bf'ing ahead of me and it'll be nice to just have a damn margarita one day and not worry about it affecting anyone else lol
And just to add that all closely spaced pregnancies are not terrible! My second pregnancy was way easier than the first. Yes it sucked having morning sickness with a 9 month old, but I snuggled him in the bathroom floor and he had no idea what was going on lol The first 2 weeks with both of them were tough. But now things are great & I'm so excited to watch these sweet boys grow up together.
However, we are definitely sticking to our original plan of waiting 2-3 years and then deciding if we still feel that way and, if so, starting to try then. We simply cannot afford two kids in day care at the same time, living in Los Angeles where rent and daycare prices are insane. But I totally get the desire now that I have LO home with me and pregnancy and labor are just memories!
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I still like her better on the outside, though.
And we have no intention of having any more at all.
to try for a girl but between finances and my mental health this time around I'm not sure I could do this again. We'll definitely wait until this baby is 2-3 to see how we feel.
SO and I have had this convo already. He claims he doesn't want another but then he will say "well maybe in 5-10 years"
I definately don't want another right now- financially,emotionally, mentally, or physically..
I want to wait 2-5 years for another.
I think I wasn't totally ready this time around and I wasn't 100% prepared and I'm so out of my league I feel like I'm drowning sometimes.
I know if I have another baby right now, it probably wouldn't work out in my favor....
For the time being I will enjoy my son
My OB had to prescribe me anti-depressants and anxiety meds because I do feel great sadness about DD being possibly my last child. I had so much fun in this pregnancy even though it was so much harder than DS' pregnancy. I want to be able to fully enjoy pregnancy one last time. I broke down in front of my OB about it. Just time flies by so fast.
DS#1 born 02/19/2013