I've got four dcd now, my youngest being 4 months old. We always said we'd had four, and while I was pregnant with my youngest I kept thinking I'd feel a sense of our family being complete once she arrived. Of course I don't. Realistically I don't think I could cope with being pregnant again - it was very difficult last time, and age isn't on my side, plus lots of practical reasons why four really is enough...
But I still feel so sad going through everything for 'the last time'. I find it particularly hard packing clothes away when dd moves into the next sizes. Dh wants me to E-bay everything - clothes, maternity stuff, TENS machine etc, but I think its too soon, and get too emotional. I kind of wanted to 'enjoy every moment' with this baby, but then there just isn't time - its always so hectic all the time, with life getting in the way!! I had visions of putting together a memory box, photo collages, making a patchwork quilt out of the baby clothes... that type of thing, but barely have time to sit down let alone do that type of thing...
So - anyone know how I feel? I know I'm incredibly lucky, we've got four lovely children, wouldn't change anything for the world, and we possibly could have another if we were both absolutely sure, but we've decided not too... it just seems so 'final'. I wonder if people who have two children feel like this when they have their second, i.e. is it just because I've done this so many times that it will feel so odd not to be carrying a maternity exemption card for prescriptions, not to be thinking ahead and planning the best time for a baby, not to be looking at maternity clothes all the time, not to need to keep hold of all the baby stuff... Is it hormones??!!
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happynappies · 24/01/2013 15:00
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