I AM being unreasonable. Please come and talk me down before I go and get pregnant RIGHT NOW

[designerbaby]

It's my mother in law's fault for sending me the baby bath video (another thread). And because my DD2 is about to turn three. And fecking hormones.

And I can't because we can't afford it. I run my own business and could not run it with a baby in tow, and it's just doing really well, and I'm enjoying life just as it is, and if I get a colicky non-sleeper like DD1, I will bloody DIE, and actually I nearly did die giving birth to DDs 1&2, and this is NOT rational or sensible.

I'm on a tsunami of emotion and I on't know why, so please come and talk me down before I go and jump DH RIGHT NOW.

QUICK.

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(Still, I am not watching the baby bath video. Just in case...)

I can't see that link, thank The Lord. And thank my coil which requires actual planning to circumvent. I am barely hanging on by the skin of my teeth with two. Maybe in five years. or on my special iPad TTC note, in about six months

I heart gardenpath's post.

I know a few people who are very smugly about how lovely it is to have 3, or 4, little children all close in age. How lovely that they can all play together.
I just think...four teenagers. Bwahahahaha.

Actually, I think given the choice, I would have had 3. But with quite big gaps!

It's a slow motion video of a baby in a sink full of water. With annoying music.

What?

Yep, just watched most of the baby bath video. Is just a lovely newborn enjoying a bath. Lovely.

And ifnot I now have the four teenager/student thing. Is very costly. Very. But was v cool when they all played out, and all played together.

Oh, and to Fellnell, you are SO NOT a husk. Or, if you are, then I am too, and I deny it.

Just watched it. Did nothing for me. I'm free, FREE I tell you!!! (Which is a good job as DH has had a vasectomy!)

That video cracks me right up.

Kind of have the urge to do a remake with my squalling 4mo DS whose looks at us like we are torturing him when we try to give him lovely relaxing baths and massages. And those are the good ones - mostly he screams the house down (yes, we do check the temperature first). That'd put you off though of course he is so wonderfully delicious and perfect it might not.

Don't do it. My 3rd is that colicky none sleeper you are talking about! He was that bad I got pnd from sheer exhaustion. Don't get me wrong I love him to bits and wouldn't be without him now but my life went from easy with 2 to hard work again

Didn't do much for me either and I am broody.

Having a non-sleeping one year old is good birth control. Not sure I would be able to stop myself either if dd2 was 3 and slept like her older sister.

Unfortunately my DH is not strong and came back from work the other day telling me he had gone all gooey over a newborn.

Vomit, poo, snot, wee, they don't put me off. My only hope is to think about the stroppy teenagers.

Piles. Think of the piles. Big bunch of bum grapes.

I know Marjorie. I am just trying to make myself feel better!

Really though, I can already see than I am destined to have one extravagantly moody, Emo style teenager with strops the strength of ten teenagers.

Ok. I'm doing better today. Reasons:

The people talking about teenagers. We'd be destined to have three girls (I'm pretty sure we don't make boy-flavour babies) and the though of four hormonal women in the house... urgh.

I haven't slept for one night, which has shown me that I am too old and knackered to repeat this every night for MONTHS, which, if DD3 turned out anything like DD1 (which sods law says she would) I would be doing until she was 18 months old, before doing 3 weeks of HARDCORE sleep training which would sap any ounce of willpower and energy I had left, leaving me a hollowed-out husk as previously mentioned.

I just went shopping for childrens' shoes in Clarks on a Saturday

Now, so long as I NEVER watch that video again, I'll be fine.

For a bit anyway. Tell me this feeling passes with time?

To be serious for one moment-a friend of mine recently decided to stop for good at 2 kids. She is 28.
The reason; she had previously suffered 2 miscarriages, and she was concerned about the effect further miscarriages could have on her son, who is now 7.
She said she had to put the children she already has first. I think that is a really good way to think about it.
Whatever you do will have an effect on your existing children, so if a new baby is realistically going to totally decimate you, then that's not fair on them.

Hmmm, thanks for the baby-bath link though I'm not sure I was watching the same video as everyone else; mine was of someone waterboarding a new-born. Perhaps they're missing a trick at Guantanamo; if they tortured detainees to soft, gooey music they could get off the human rights rap. Just hope the kid didn't cave.

Can you not find a video of childbirth just to remind you why not to do it?