Considering 4th baby at 37 and youngest is 11 weeks old

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Good Morning all.

Just wondering what the chances of conceiving in the situation would be. It’s a “how long is a piece of string” situation I suppose and I am aware nobody can give me any answers. Just thought I would start this thread for any potential advice or anyone in the same boat.

38 in March and we had our little girl in July. I am exclusively breastfeeding which is going well. We have not start to have intercourse yet. Mainly because of co sleeping and tiredness.

We have discussed about having a 4th and final child and have discussed having another close in age to our latest little girl. We have big gaps between our other children, 17, 10 and almost 11 weeks.

Wondering if I would be lucky enough to conceive again. Obviously breastfeeding will delay to the chances of conception for a while until I drop feeds but I am happy to carry on as I am regarding the feeding.

If I am co sleeping now how difficult would it be to have another baby and how would I manage?! I have co slept with all of my children and they stayed in our bed until 2 years with our first , 4 years with our second and obviously we have our youngest in with us now.

Any advice or experience would help greatly.

I dont think youll know until you try. everyone is so different, some have trouble conceiving in their 20s, others are fertile as larry into their late 40s
Having had children before may make it easier as your body knows what it's like, perhaps it would be harder if this would have been your first child. Good luck

All you can do is try. In my family all the women had babies well into their 40s with no bother. MN is full of threads with comments about how anyone over 35 has no chance of conceiving. Whilst that may be true for some, my experience with friends and relatives is that 40+ is totally normal.

Thanks ladies. Thank you for your input. I think we may just try and see what happens. I probably won’t get any normal or regular cycles until I start to wean our little girl. Could be quite a while until I ovulate again.

Would be nervous about a small age gap as it’s nothing I have ever experienced before. 🥴

I have a 3 yr old and a 10 month old. It is absolutely knackering. I BF and cosleep. Me and DH hum and ho about a third but I honestly think we are just too tired. I'm 36 in October and feel old!
I was still BF DS1 but got my period back around 18months after birth and for pregnant fairly quickly after that I think.

Oh also my 3yr old still wakes and comes to my bed and it is a bit of a nightmare because I am so worried he rolls onto the baby or even if he falls off my bed (it's high!) I have bed bumpers so that takes space away from the mattress and if baby and the 3yo are in the bed I am sleeping vertically along the bottom and I wake all the bloody time to check they are ok. The sleep quality I get is incredibly poor and it's not even the babies fault as he is a fairly decent sleeper.

It might be tricky for you emotionally as if you fall pregnant quickly you may feel a pressure to get your baby into own bed and stop breast feeding in time for new babies arrival. Might be nicer to enjoy the little one you have and let her be the youngest for a while and then think about it again when she's a year or so.

But that's not the same. Op wants another in quick succession after the Third.

@Hungrycaterpillarsmummy ooops I didn't read that properly 🙈
Sorry about that