As it says really!

I have a 22month DS, 5 week old DD and can't help feeling broody. Not sure what is wrong with me.

Had horrible pregnancy with both. Birth Number 1 was horrid. DD's birth was much better - 2.5 hours, born in the car in the hospital car park - dignity tested but the euphoria after the birth was such that I didn't mind at all!!

Could this be why I feel like repeating the experience so soon.

By the way, we can't have another as we are nowhere near a financial position to do it.

Just wondered if it's normal to feel so broody so soon.

Maybe it is, there's not that much of a gap between DCs 1 and 2!

i thinks its a normal hormonal response that makes you love your new baby even more...i've had this with all three children and in the first month or so with dc3 i kept saying awww so lovely...might have another....fast forward 8mths and i can just about cope with three...no way i could juggle four! but i do get all smooshy over babies...not just very young ones, they are so very lovely!

I def felt like this a couple of months after DD was born. I remember thinking "this is just wonderful - I want so many DCs". I did feel a little different a few months later though it was still wonderful. I'd say hold off for a while!

Oh, don't worry. The broody thing will not triumph over common sense! Two babies under two is enough without the joys of SPD to consider. Also, will need to get some work in the new year (freelance, self employed so need to work to pay the bills, my recollection of last pregnancy is that SPD does not cater for the self employed!)

Just wondered if this was a common thing...

oh yes i was broody when ds was 5 weeks old and dd was 23 months.......i am not at all now that ds is 19mo and dd is 3.5

give it time!

Are you all freakin' crazy?!

I have DS1 3.7 and a four month old and don't feel broody, I feel knackered. I am never, ever doing this again. I don't care how bloody adorable they are.

see I've never understood this, I can remember speaking to mums who had babies at the same time as myself and most said 'oh I just want another one right now!' I couldn't believe my ears - how can you possibly want another one so soon????

My labour was long, had a v bad tear so the last thing I wanted was to be pg again! Am I the only one like this who was put off for life (almost!)?

Oh, I always feel like this too! Have 2 1/2 years between Dd1 and DD2, 18mon between DDS2 and 3, will have 14mo berween DDs3 and 4 .

Why oh why does DH not earn enough to keep us all, then I could have DC3 .

Maybe the answer is new DH!

I would say definately normal, DD2 was conceived when dd1 was about 9 months old, and had fought broody feelings for months to get that far.

Then after DD2 was desperate to have another and was practically counting down the days until we could realistically start trying again.

Now dds are just over 3 and 20 months old and although I think we will have another at some point in the future, I would no longer say I was broody, it's not something I think about often and am quite happy to wait another year til we start TTC....hormones have a lot to answer for I think