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How can you stop being broody please help!!!

34 replies

snowedunder · 06/07/2006 21:41

Im a regular but im changing my name for this. The thing is im broody but have enough on my plate (dh and kids and work etc) and no more room in my house for a lo. i keep looking on Mothercare website! And at the maternity clothes in next! And ive a couple of friends who are due in a couple of months. I need advice or help to quit feeling this way!

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Maddison · 06/07/2006 23:32

Hi snowedunder, you are definitely not alone! I often feel very broody, so I just try to think of all the sleepless nights etc and how I would cope with another little one with the two that I've already got (DS1 is 5, DS2 is almost 14 months), and this puts me off for a very short while as I then think 'well the sleepless nights don't last that long and crappy nappies don't bother me'

If you find a way, please let me know!!

webmum · 07/07/2006 00:19

I'd like to know too.
After having dd2 I hoped I'd find peace, but now she's 20 months I'm already thinking about another one...sometimes I wonder, will I ever stop being broody, or at some point motehr nature will (thankfully) put a stop to this????

KristinaM · 07/07/2006 00:25

I'm still broody too. Now i have sympathy for these mad women you see on TV with 12 kids. Only thing is i hate all the pregnancy and birth bit......

Sallie · 04/08/2006 18:15

I have three and am still extremely broody despite ongoing problems between me and dh...

Quootiepie · 04/08/2006 18:31

same boat... DS is 4 months and all I want is a little brother or sister for him. Super-broody... im in near tears im so desperate for more!

juuule · 04/08/2006 18:45

No answers here. I've got 9 children to show for my broodiness

nutcracker · 04/08/2006 18:48

I'd love to know how to stop feeling broody.

I have 3 and always wanted 4, but am in no position to have a 4th as me and dp have just got back together and things are still very rocky and I was advised not to have any more after my last too, but try as I might I can't stop the broodyness.

Drives me quite nuts at times.

strongmints · 04/08/2006 18:49

I think having another baby is the only way to get rid of persistant deep seated broodiness - otherwise it bubbles under and comes back again and again. sorry if this is not what you want to hear - but now i have all the children i want i only have very brief 'arhh' moments over newborns - and don't envy pregnant women at all.

allyco · 05/08/2006 18:33

well, I have 5 kids now and tbh would have another if I could. But I won't - am too old now and each pregnancy has given me worse and worse hyperemesis. Having my last baby has left me with liver problems because of the vomiting and I need dental work because the enamel was worn off my teeth because I vomited so much (sorry if tmi).

But I really would do it again....

LucyJones · 05/08/2006 18:46

look after a newborn for 24 hours

JennyLee · 05/08/2006 19:47

I'm the same every few onths it becomes too much and I stop taking my pills then, after nothing happens I start back on them again, am back on them at the moment as I know I am not stable enough housing, money and relationship wise and my parents would kill me if I had another but still get times where i just want a baby and stop taking my pills for months on end, never concieve anyway and it took 3 years to get ds, wish I could stop getting broody or as I call it The Baby Madness

justamum · 05/08/2006 23:57

can't offer any advice, but i'm exactly the same, my dd is only 4 months and I also have a ds 2.6 and i'm getting really broody again. Practically speaking we can't afford another one and my dh doesn't really want any more now we have one of each but i am one of three and have always really wanted 4 children. I keep kind of hoping it will happen by accident but I think that really would put my marriage at risk as my dd was a genuine accident and I think a second accident especially as I am on the mini pill would be pushing it. I keep hoping we win the lottery or that dh finds a fantastic new job that means I can give up work altogether and then it wouldn't matter if we had another one or even two. the ironic thing is that I don't like being pregnant particularly as I get really sick and suffer from horrendous migraines all through! i don't think there is an answer really & does anyone else feel really selfish wanting more when there are people out there really struggling to have their first?

3catstoo · 07/08/2006 11:03

I would love to know the answer.
I have 3 but would love one more. DH has not given in despite my 12 months of pressure. It hasn't gone away since starting over 18 months ago.
At first I didn't mention it thinking it would go away. After 6 months I told DH as generally I did not get this broody when trying for the others. This is overwhelming me though. I'm obsessed.
I too have looked at the M/C site and maternity clothes. Have even gone as far as measuring up to price cots/ beds etc for another baby.
Sleepless nights don't put me off. I've gone through it with 3 children and that hasn't put me off so the thought of 24 hours with a newborn certainly won't make it go away!

Let me know when you find an answer.

sandcat · 08/08/2006 16:36

I have 4mth dd and really would have another tomorrow. Is it too soon ?

cherrypie556 · 08/08/2006 17:01

Iam am so broody aswell, i already have three lo's. aged 4,2 and 6 months and we are going to be TTc very soon. I feel more broody after having mu youngest then i ever did with the other 2. I only ever wanted 3 kids but now looks like to be 4, and what if iam still broody? arghhhhhh lol

cazboldy · 08/08/2006 17:14

I am ok at the moment as my ds3 is only 7 months, but this does worry me.
A close friend said to me that "you know when you have had enough" because you won't feel broody anymore.
I am 24 with 4 children and could quite possibly rival the little old lady who lived in a shoe if I don't find out how to stop wanting more!
Dh says 6 max!

sleepycat · 08/08/2006 17:32

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sparklemagic · 08/08/2006 18:19

wow, I just love mumsnet! It is so illuminating to hear this stuff...you ladies will all think I am some sort of hormone deficient freak, but I have NEVER been broody and I don't know what it feels like to be broody!!!!

when we started ttc our DS, who is now 4, it was more a decision of OK, lets go for it as I know I want a CHILD; I have never really fancied babies much and didn't have a hankering for one at all. It was children-y things that I felt all fuzzy about; reading to them, talking to them and finding out their own views, taking them to their various hobbies or whatever;

when DS arrived I was literally stunned by my feelings for him and I LOVED cuddling my baby; I was/am ridiculously maternal and protective and nurturing and I LOVED every minute of his babyhood. But I have never even once, wanted to do it again!

I feel like some sort of third sex, broodiness must be something real women get!

cazboldy · 08/08/2006 18:25

sleepycat, thats what I said, " I am ok at the moment as ds3 is only 7 months" who knows maybe I won't get broody anymore, my friend might be right but I doubt it!

sleepycat · 08/08/2006 18:49

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cazboldy · 08/08/2006 19:43

ok sorry must have missed that one!

3catstoo · 09/08/2006 14:13

Juule, you must be superwomen to have 9. I know people used to have loads of children but not so much now.

justamum · 09/08/2006 17:59

sleepycat, it was me with the 4 mnth old. i think it is because my dd is so utterly scrumptious that i keep thinking about having another one, i was exactly the same with my ds. I think its because I know I probably won't have anymore, DH is happpy with one of each and practically speaking we can't afford it. I would have had a big brood if I could, still would if the opportunity comes up-who knows!

sarahsbump · 10/08/2006 07:40

No answers im afraid but im broody again and DS is only 5 weeks old!! I just look at him and want a houseful it does help that he is such a good baby though and already sleeping for 7 hours at night so i keep telling myself the next one might not be so good to stop me lol x

3catstoo · 10/08/2006 11:15

sarahsbump, 5 weeks and already sleeping for 7 hours, that's amazing. It makes sense though that as you start getting more sleep you can function a bit better and that's when I started getting broody. Only after number 3 though. It didn't hit me in quite the same way after 1 and 2.

A friend of mine has 5 children and she makes it look so easy. Her children are all wonderful. 5 sounds scary to me though. 4 would be just fine (until I next felt broody!).