Anyone else long for another baby but unable to have one? Does the longing feeling pass eventually?

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I desperately want another baby but can't afford to have one.

I have 2 lovely daughters so I'm very blessed but this awful feeling hits me right in the pit of my stomach when I think about how much I want a 3rd since I know it'll never happen.

Has anyone else been in this sort of situation or similar? Did the feeling pass?

Thanks.

I'd love another baby - I have multiple reproductive issues and I'm in a same-sex relationship so everything is expensive even before those. But, I have a DD, so yes, I'm very conscious of how lucky I am.

I don't know if the feeling passes, but I think it is quite common TBH. Not that that makes it better!

yes the feeling passed. It is a relief not to have a third now, though, that may be because 1 and 2 have additional needs. having a third with similar inherited conditions would have been even more difficult. (though they are effected in different ways, one hardly at all for onething and much more for the other)

Yes, it does
DH and I weren't able to have a second child and we both felt a bit icky about IVF (for us, no issues with other people who choose it!)
It took a while and a lot of angst and hand wringing but I'm finally over it. DS is a teen now so the baby thing has truly passed us by now, and we are able to give him a life beyond anything we could provide for two.
I'm not sure how it happened really, I suppose the feelings just lessened over time until one day I realised they had gone. A part of me will always regret what might have been, but a recent small scare in that department cemented my realisation that I really am done with babies

Great thread. I have wanted a third since my second was born five years ago. I've thought about it every day and it was all-encompassing for years. I know what you mean about the awful pit in your tummy. It is lessening over time. Much less recently and he has just started school. I feel I am maybe moving into a new phase.

I can't have one because DH doesn't want another. We also (realistically) can't afford it and also, I sometimes feel if I had another it would tip me over the edge mentally...