Wasnt sure where to post this so sorry if OT slightly but...

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Should I be wanting to TTC?
I am 24 so still a spring chicken, married with 3 beautiful children E(5) A (3.5) and K (21 months) and should be contented with what i have as i know i am soooo lucky to have 3 little miracles already, but something inside is "doing my head in!!!!" I am soooo broody its driving me mad and yet i keep putting off asking DH how he feels about ttc.
We do struggle sometimes financially, but we get by and always pay the bills even if we have to go without luxuries sometimes. We have a good size 3 bed house. The girls share a big room which E is in a single bed and K in a cotbed. If I had a girl E and K could go in bunk beds and bean in cotbed. A is in the large box room with a mid sleeper currently, but bunk beds would fit if i had a boy, although not sure where bean would go to start with (obviously in with me and dh for at least the first few months as i plan to breastfeed again)
we could afford to get all the baby stuff again even if second hand and alot of stuff we still have!
so should i be wanting to ttc again or am i being greedy?
Keep thinking abou age gaps etc and not sure if i should wait til all 3 are at school? arrrah just not sure...HELP!!

Why don't you just talk to your DH about it?

Personally I think you'd have to be crackers to want another one

I can completely understand your concerns, I was in a similar position last year, except I had 2 children - then aged 2 and 4. Boy and girl.

I desperately wanted another, dh didn't. So I was thinking 'well, whats if he's right...we can't have anything different, we don't need another child, it's just my body getting broody.

To cut a long story short, I left it a while to see if the broodinesswould go away - it didn't. I calculated our affordability to see whether it was realistic for me to consider making my children sacrifice things for another baby, it was fine (thankfully - don't know what I'd have done if it wasn't ) Sat dh down and had a many in-depth chats with him and we decided to try again. Got pregnant first month of trying in August but sadly miscarried at 6 weeks. Dh was devastated and said he didn't realise how much he actually wanted another baby until then.
Tried again immediately and am now currently 28wks pregnant with a little surprise.

So a slightly different story to yours but very similar being that I can relate 100% to your broodiness!! Just wanted to share my story of what I did with it. I'd definitely recommend speakng with your dh about it - see how he feels.

I hope it helps in some way

I'm 25 btw - was 24 when first started thinking about it all xx

No, I understand entirely.