Dear Mumsnet please could we have a 'Larger Families' section?

Hello folks - late to the fray but very keen to stick my nose in say hello

I have:

dd1 10
dd2 9
ds1 2.8
ds2 8months

How neat is that? Two girls, older and responsible (no really, I'm not joking) and two wee boys almost exactly two years apart! They are all lovely and all get on pretty well (a bit of sniping between the dds but a lot of that is hormonal!)

Amazingly, all planned, ds2 took a little longer to conceive than I wanted, but otherwise we got exactly what we were after (2, a gap, then another 2). Definitely finished now though!

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i have been sent here via the post-natal thread

i have;
ds1(10)
dd1(9)
ds2(4.8)
dd2(2.3)
and dd3(1 year)

only dd3 was 'planned'(officially),ds1 and dd2 were 'it'll be fine,ive just come off my period'(its taken me 10 years to figure out i ovulate about 3-4 days after my af ends,which explains the horrendous 2-3 weeks of pmt),ds2 was sort of planned whilst under the influence of alcohol and dd1 was a genuine 'how the f**k did that happen??'(i'd only gone to the dr's to get the pill cos we were fed up with condoms,ds1 was only 3 months old!).

i want to get steralised but i cant due to the nasty scar tissue left from my appendisectomy(sp?)so i have to make do with the coil.
my af was 2 days late this month and i was about ready to book myself into the nut house.

Ah Paula, I think I recognise you!

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actually, I lie.....they did do cysts too while I was under......DH remembered rather than me, which is unusual!

I did have a weight issue for a while there, altho not huge. I went from a sz8/10 to a big 12. All back to normal now tho and back down to a sz 6/8 depending on shop.

Peachy 16!

PYBF - am I right in thinking you are married to a vet?

hey peachy. I never thanked you for sending me all the bibic stuff......belated HUGE thanks now, and wow........baby due so soon.

MY dad was one of 13, so yes, after that hugeness, 4 or 5 is positively diddy

PYBF - I put weight on, for no reason (diet and everything the same), but no other symptoms. Had blood tests, and a scan and found cysts on both ovaries. At 12 wk scan with ds3 they had gone!

Can i join in slightly prematurely?

have ds1, 8; ds2, 7; ds3, 4.5; ds4 sue a week Sunday

DS1 was very planned but we'd only been together a few months- 3 in fact, though already engaged. DH wanted a baby and he ahdan endowment due, I told him it was a baby or a sports car and the rest is history LOL!. DS2 also planned, when ds1 was 5 months- had lots of problems with ds1 and figured I'd be better off having a sibling whilst I was yiounger if I was goin g to ahev that all again..... and after that PG was OK we had ds3. This one took quite a while to conceive though and will be our last. Seems a fairly small family to me, Dad was one of 16.

I ended up with severe endometriosis after having DS2, and then needed surgery to laser it our, take away my fibriods I was also discovered to have, sort out a cervical erosion, and other things (I was a wee mess inside), and then they put in a mirena coil.

not looked back since.....few initial probs with the hormones settling in, but otherwise very little in the way of periods now (well, there would be, only DD1 is in the midst of starting her periods and her hormones are sending me crazy), and no recurrence of the PCOS.

I am however miffed that DH had the snip, yet I also ended up with a coil after not wanting it for so long!

has yours ever come back? I was told about 30% of women have it reoccur

Thats what was wrong with me Psychomum....after I had ds3, had loads of problems, was told I had developed PCO, and would probably need treatment if I wanted to conceive in the future.....4 months later, I got pg

oh, and then DH had 'the snip' to ensure no more accidents blessings

I was told at 18, after being diagnosed with PCO, that I would have a 5% chance of ever falling pregnant naturally!!!

I was devestated as children were already in my plan......I was already engaged to DH at that point, and was working as a nursery nurse/nanny for a family with 3 children including identical twin boys.

we married when I was 20, with the plan to start saving for IVF if I wasn;t pregnant within a few years.....and then found that my wedding nerves weren;t nerves, it was morning sickness, and lo DD1 was born 8mths later !!!!

DD2 was tried for once DD1 hit her 1st b/day, as we thought DD1 was a fluke and I thought we may need a few years trying. I fell the first month!

DD3 came along after I took two packs of pills back-to-back to miss a period, but I had had tonsilitis and taken antiB's without thinking of the repercussions.

DS1....I was still breastfeeding DD3 and not had periods and not thought I could fall....

and DS2, the pill + st johns wort!

so, all meant to be, yet only DD2 actively tried for!

sorky, with any luck he'll give up trying to count!

yes that's leading to no.4 hopefully kittywise, relentless pressure.

I used the old "2 is soooo dull, everyone has 2 kids, lets have another" for no.3, so I might have to be rather inventive for anymore than 4.

wear him down with nagging!!

Number 1 was definitely unplanned. Condom broke and MAP failed so he was meant to be.......

DD1, we decided to have another, but think I was probably already pg

ds2, conceived while bf, with no period in between. Found out for definite at 17 weeks, and had my first scan at 20wks 5 days

ds3, definitely planned.....took quite a bit of trying actually....

dd2, we thought ds3 would be a bit lonely, so just let nature take it's course (and dh thought it would take ages to conceive as we had had to try with ds3 )

Did you all have happy surprises or were all of your pg's planned?

Give me your tips for getting your men to agree past 4 kids, if you would

Dh has only just said maybe for 4, which of course is a yes!

But there's no way he'd have 5, unless.........I'm gonna need a bigger notepad!

well........st johns wort makes does to The Pill what antibiotics do......which I never knew until I had fallen for DS2!!!!

twas the year after I fell for him that they realised and declared it unsafe to take while on the pill.......IIRC about 100 other women suffered the same fate were blessed like me

3 kids
bucket full of jelly
busy road
gin

gotcha!

What does st john wort do?