TTC or not TTC that is the question?

[mermummy]

Ok so not sure if this right place to post this (maybe chat would be better), but I am really struggling to think about the right time to try and conceive DC2.

Got pregnant 1st time without meaning to . Now DD is coming up to e year the hormones havr really kicked in and desperate for another baby.

Should I go ahead or hold fire till the New Year (when loft conversion will be complete, currently still in planning stages and if I conceive on schedule then ML will work much better. I am a teacher so have to think about holidays etc.)

All this said I am probably sounding very naive and it will take me a long time to conceive this time and so all my agonising about a few months will be out of the window.

Godamn hormones, all I can think about. DH very bored of subject and willing to go with whenever I want. Sorry this has turned into a real ramble.

Also still about 8lbs to lose of baby weight from previous pregnancy and promised myself would lose it all before got pg again.

Oh dear answering own thread but it really is all consuming this.

I think if you wait for the "right time" it will never arrive; there will always be a loft conversion, a new job, or something else that could pose an obstacle. So if you really do want another, just do it. You may get pregnant straight away, you may not - but you never know until you try.

You sound just like me a year ago. DS was unplanned and when he was not long turned 1 a switch in my brain flipped and suddenly another baby was all I wanted. There was so much going on and so much uncertainty in our life at that point, so it really wasn't a good idea, that an DH wasn't on board with the idea. Finally a year later things have improved and we've just casually started TTC.

If I'd been in your position a year ago (secure job, own place) I'd surely have been knocked up long ago. As it stands, it's still probably a really bad time for us to have another DC, but this is life and there'll never be a good time. Sometimes you just have to jump in and hope for the best. []

That said, at the end of the day, you have to go with what you are comfortable with.

And if you're really not sure about starting yet there are some lovely girls over here you might like to play with in the mean time.

Thanks for the advice. Still so unsure so will continue my ramblings on other thread.
Will join you NoMoreChocBiscuits, see you over there.