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how to discuss a second child without arguing

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RoseGoldProsecco · 03/05/2017 21:20

i am 39, 40 before the end of the year. one DC, conceived at 37 on first attempt, who's 20 months.

we both definitely want another, but differ on the timing. dP thinks we can wait a year or two and accuses me of putting arbitrary time limits on it. my view is that you don't piss around and wait when you're already 39. it is impossible to discuss without an argument.

help - what can i say?! he simply won't listen to any of the medical stats. he has some good points about timing (we want to move etc), but i don't think they outweigh the risks of waiting.

OP posts:
Underbeneathsies · 11/05/2017 20:38

Sorry you don't like my home truths @Kazeno.
I've bitter experience of a bloke not being on board and playing the waiting game.
Fucking killed. Glad to amuse Worra. Hahahaha right back at ya.

With my new bloke, had my first at 36 and was classified as "geriatric primagravida". Take it up with the medical profession of you don't like the terminology.

All other facts about autism being more common in children with older fathers and genetic defects, like Down's syndrome being more prevalent in children born to older mothers are proven scientific facts, not just my opinion. Take it up with the scientists. Take it up with the biology.

It's a bloody fact that we are not able to have kids when we age, and that with every month our eggs and their sperm is more prone to being damaged. This is scientific proved fact.
Our chances of having a baby at all reduce as miscarriage rate increases with age, and genetic defects also increase exponentially with age. These are proven facts.

Dream on if you think differently, or worse still feel differently.

Scientific Facts can be "insensitive" like that. Don't blame me for being insensitive, Kazeno, you may as well argue gravity doesn't exist, or some other effin twaddle.

OP, get a move on. Your eggs are dying. His sperm is damaged with age.

Do you know how many eggs you have, what your reserve is, and what state your partner's sperm are in? How many is he producing, what condition are they in, how long do they survive, can they swim?

Finding this out would be part of any negotiations I'd make about waiting even for one more month.

Fwiw I think he's playing you.

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