to be a bit :( that I am selling all my baby items on the car boot tomorrow

[2anddone]

I am doing a car boot tomorrow and I am selling up all my baby equipment except the moses basket, which i have kept as it was a gift from their great grandma. DH thinks it is great it could all go and I am feeling a bit because to me it is like admitting that I am now finished with the whole having babies thing. Tell me to pull myself together and that IABU and that I am not to chase people through the field tomorrow shouting give it back I have changed my mind

yanbu but be careful!!

theres 8 years between ds and dd and i'd resigned myself to no more babies, i gave the last of ds's baby stuff to a friend who was pregnant, found out 2 weeks later that i was pregnant as well and our babies were born a week apart

yanbu - had my 4th dc 2.7 years ago and all her baby stuff is still here. I can't quite bring myself to sell it or give it away, even though I know we won't be having any more (DH has had vasectomy, so a baby would be a definite surprise). They grow up so quickly that it's natural to feel a bit sad that particular time is over. I will keep baby outfits and sentimental things, but I know I do not need a nappy wrapper, so must organise mysef to put some thing on ebay!

ahhh i think it means you need another one! lol

i feel fairly complete with my lot now and am enjoying making money selling all the old baby stuff...

I just felt a bit sad setting up a real bed for DS1 so I could use his toddler bed as a cot for DS2 (who has outgrown the moses basket).

It goes so quick!

Hehe I think I shall hit DH with a request for another in a few years...he should have forgotten the pregnancy whining/newborn hassle by then you think?

definitely morloth!

YANBU

I have a cast iron guarantee of no more babies (no more womb) but I still have bits from the ds's in the loft.

I have this vague plan that I will pass them on to my sister when and if she has children but by then the stuff will be years old and I'm sure she won't want it anyway.

One day I'll pass the stuff on to the charity shop but don't want to rush in to anything. Ds's are 7 and 5

yanbu! men dont get it I dont think, everytime I come across a tiny baby gro or vest I get weepy for my tiny babies that are now 2 and huge and monsters. My DH doesnt want anymore but I have so far managed to convince him to store the cots 'just in case'

I remember watching my lovely Moses basket get sold at an NCT sale. I did not want any more children, my youngest is five, and that hasn't changed. But still. The Moses basket. Sob.

I don't agree that it means you want another baby. It is bittersweet when babies grow up.

My advice would be buy whatever you damn well please with the proceeds, for you, not for the children. I swopped most of my baby stuff (pushchair, travel cot, cloth nappies etc) for beer. I listened to it clink in the bottles that people brought to my house and was very pleased. Beer, I thought. No breastfeeding guilt.

Glug, glug.

Ooooh! I feel your pain! My 2nd DS has grown out of loads of stuff, though when I have mentioned it, DH has said we should keep it "just in case"... This gives hope that a man who swore he only wanted two may change his mind...

Buy yourself something lovely with the profits!

Chuck in all the loft... you never know what the future may bring.

DD1 was 20, DD2 18 and DS1 16 when DS2 entered the world.

He's cost us a fortune!

I got rid of all my twins' gear about a year ago, (they are nearly five) and now I find myself 8 weeks into an unexpected pregnancy -Doh!! (on the selling things, not the pregnancy!)

i dont agree either that it means you want another child - just feels sad that they are not babies anymore!!

i'm def not having anymore (unless my sterilisation fails and i really would cry!!) but i was distraught at throwing out the dc's pram. it had done our 3 dc and it was beyond even selling in a car boot sale so dh took it to the local tip! i couldnt go and he wasnt even allowed to tell me when he was taking it! it just brought back so many lovely memories of us being first time parents and buying the pram was such an exciting thing.

so i get your pain but you'll be ok (altho i've gtot tears in my eyes typing that!!!)