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Conception

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I want another baby (I think)

25 replies

Aragon · 01/08/2005 15:54

Hmmm! Am 3 days overdue at 31 days. However, can go up to 35 days and even longer thanks to PCOS. Why do I think and faintly hope I might be pregnant?
It would be an utter disaster financially and also I have (if I am truly honest) found DS hard work even though he is an excellent toddler and so loving and funny, and he sleeps well at night etc. I am just beginning to feel I have some life back so why am I secretly hoping that a pregnancy test will be positive? Hmmmm.

Won't test yet but if there's no sign of AF by the weekend then I might test.
Should say I've been here before and they've always been negative.

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jane313 · 01/08/2005 15:59

I think that the drive to reproduce is so bloomin intense that can overwhelm any more logics feelings. otherwise the human race would have died out years ago! My logical side was wiining till very recently but not its been totally defeated and have forgottn crying for much of the first few weeks of my sons life!

Good luck with getting the outcome you want

Janbo25 · 01/08/2005 16:00

i think us women always have a desire to be pregnant in back of our mind, yet in reality it would make life difficult

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Aragon · 03/08/2005 21:34

AF arrived today. And in keeping with my bizarre feelings about the concept of another baby ....

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jamiesam · 03/08/2005 21:40

Sorry about your af.

If it helps, ds1 was especially hard work around the time we were ttc ds2, but we went ahead and did the deed anyway. He did get better - they always grow out of one stage and into another just when you think that you can't handle it anymore.

When I think about how much money we spend on nursery fees at the moment I realise we were practically multi-millionaires pre-children! There's never a really great time financially to have children, something always has to give.

Good luck for the future.

wanna · 05/08/2005 13:15

We've been TTC #2 since December (no luck yet and sometimes I wonder why...like 3 days ago when we decided our 1 year old should no longer have his dummy at night! Took the daytime dummy off him at 10mths as he wasn't bothered but decided on his birthday last week that its time to take it away altogether before he gets any older and it gets harder. Only took 2 mins this afternoon before he went to sleep Now i'm thinking "yes another baby"!

fresco · 26/01/2006 22:52

hi there

i got a wee girl of nearly 2 and a 7 weeks old baby.i am now finding mysylf brooding for a 3rd baby.is this normal?

Mylilangel · 27/01/2006 13:15

Hi, i am strongly thinking about baby no2. I have dd whos 17 months.

I just cant make up my mind, i worry alot about being pregnant and having no energy for dd as i found myself so tired with dd1.

I also think about having morning sickness & not being able to care for dd properly and then theres the labour but thats just tough!

DD doesnt sleep through the night still, well maybe the odd night if im lucky!! So having another baby will drain me comlpetly, but i still want one!!! How on earth do all you mums manage.

Like said on here before by someone, i am just getting a little of my life back, and my figure lol but i still want another baby!

I could go on & on but wont bore you, im sure you get the idea lol any advise would be great!!

Mylilangel · 29/01/2006 18:53

bump!!!

fresco · 29/01/2006 19:58

what do you mean 'bump!'?

notasheep · 29/01/2006 19:58

Your feelings are perfectly normal!
I would love another one,but the one big thing for me is i am 42.

What will be,will be.If you really DIDNT want another one then you wouldnt have bumped surely!

Mums muddle through,and no one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
Lots of sobbing for me.

I would go with the flow,if it happens it was meant to be,and the age gap will be over 2 years

notasheep · 29/01/2006 20:00

fresco-it gets a thread up again in last hour!

expectingsummerihope · 29/01/2006 22:34

Well I totally understand. Found out I was pregant just before New Year (unplanned and had drunk loads due to xmas etc)and I was gutted and feeling guilty as hell due to alcohol consumption. Like Mylilangel ds (19mths)still doesn't sleep through so was feeling how will I cope. Anyway just as getting used to idea and happy, I miscarried. Now I am sooooo broody. Want to ttc in summer but scared. Ds is hard work. I never felt broody before I had ds but now I melt whenever I see other babies. Motherhood is just so weird and inexplicable. You can't rationalise it - just have to accept it's magic powers

JennyLee · 30/01/2006 14:32

I get baby madness every couple of manoths and I come off the pill and then go on it, most of last year I was off the pill and nothing happened. this attack of baby madness has been brought on by my friends 1 year old baby who looks like ds at the same age, and next door and theri one week old who I bought a little blue outfit on, and coincides with me running out of the pill and hate my doctor so I avoid getting more. Is not logical though am at 3rd year in uni and have 6year old already

JennyLee · 30/01/2006 14:32

every couple of months lol

EmmaLou2006 · 30/01/2006 21:07

JennyLee · 30/01/2006 22:44

Hi, anything to add?

Mylilangel · 31/01/2006 16:06

Well, i had decided that i want another baby even though id be dreading the labour and worrid all about having to blah blah blah....and asked dp to really think what he wants, then he comes home from work an says he doesnt want another one, definately doesnt want another

I am upset but theres nothing i can do wouldnt want to bring a baby into the world whos dad never wanted him/her but at the same time i still want one!! :'(

JennyLee · 31/01/2006 17:42

yes my dp is a bit lukewarm about it too yet when we had a scare/positive/test/early miscarriage last April he wanted it and even had a names ready and he changes his mind from week to week, so we are kind of 'leaving it with the gods' at the moment

JennyLee · 31/01/2006 17:49

but that is not as risky as it sounds I was off the pill most of last year and nothing happened and my ds took 3 years from age 18 (me) to conceive.

Mylilangel · 31/01/2006 20:39

hi thanks jenny maybe he'l change his mind but i know he has it straight in his mind that he wouldnt want a huge age gap if he were to have 2 children, so looks like im outa luck! Just so lucky to have my dd!! Boy, shes gona be so spoilt now hehe!!!

JennyLee · 31/01/2006 21:13

but a couple of years or 3 is not a huge age gap, my son is already going to be 7 in March eeesh!

JennyLee · 31/01/2006 21:13

7 sounds old

tegan · 01/02/2006 05:00

I have 6 yrs and 1 day between my girls and it is a hard gap, not having anything in common etc...
and I do think shall I have another now that dd2 is 21 months but I really don't know if i would cope.

JennyLee · 01/02/2006 22:17

thanks for the input

Mylilangel · 03/02/2006 06:45

Thankyou all for your help and advise, much appreciated!!

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