Does part of you want more babies - even though the majority of your mind says 'no bloody way!' Is there still a niggly voice whispering 'go on...one more'

[kitsandbits]

Is it mother nature you think? Your body just wanting to do what a woman does?

Even though you are exhausted, fed up and sometime wish you never had the other 2 in the first place ? lol (thats a joke btw_

[handlemecarefully]

No, I don't get this - thank God

[BabyMadandBIGbump]

Don't even get me started LOL, I have a 2 week old DD and I have the broodiness already, I could have 10 of her she's just so yummy. I feel lost without my bump and I miss everything about being PG, even though I hated every god dam min when I was PG . I think when DD was born it hit me that this was my last PG/DC (3DC) and I'm only just 26 years old, so glad DH is going for the snip soon, before we end up at log aheads over having another, (if this feeling gets any stronger that is) I think I'm also very hormonal at the moment, you/I have all these "baby mummy feelings" rushing round and not wanting anymore goes ageist them, IYSWIM, so I have conflicting feeling going on, all I know is I only wanted 3 and 3 is all I'm having, it's now time to enjoy the children I have!
Babymadxx

[harrisey]

NO

I hate being pregnant, it makes me very ill.
I have had pregressively worse kidney problems in 3 pregnancies, adn progressively more severe PND after each birth.

And whispers I dont think little babies are very interesting. I have 2 school age and a preschooler now and it is huge fun. You can do stuff, you can leave the house without any gear at all, etc .... I have a couple of friends with youngest current dc starting school this year and pg with no3, and one friend with teenagers having a 3rd, and I just think I'm very very glad its not me!

[hermykne]

Oh yes i would love a 3rd, just absolutely love another boy or girl.
yummy baby clothes all packed waiting to get out of those ikea boxes.....

my b/friend is having her 3rd in 4 wks so i'm be just drolling over her baby

its just an instinct in some of us i think.
had i had my 1st earlier with my dh then definitley i'd have no 3 by now.
but we jst had a nice time for 8 years before embarking on babies,....

one more...

[WideWebWitch]

I don't really want any more, I have a boy and a girl (diff husbands), they are lovely and love each other and we will stop payng silly childcare costs when dd goes to school next year and we don't have buggies or nappies or sleepless nights any more.

But I'm 40 and maybe because I know I'm in the last chance saloon I do wonder about a last little one. I'd do it IF I didn't have to do pregnancy and childbirth again since it was so awful with dd. But we can't afford it either so that's that. We won't. And dh says he doesn't want the children to outnumber us. And they're both healthy and we're all happy, a third at 40 might feel like tempting fate too.

[bobsmum]

See that niggly voice?

I listened to it on holiday last night and made dh listen too and guess what I found out yesterday?

[bobsmum]

last month

[littlerach]

Yes, I still think oh.....
dds are 3 and 6, and as time goes on, I htink this less.
And I have a nice supply of babies lined up to be bornover the next 6 months, so I get to cuddle plenty!
The pregnancy and brith are fine, it's the frist 6 months that puts me off. And the constant worry that I had in the secionfd thatsomehting would go wrong.

[Roseylea]

You're not, are you?

[Roseylea]

THat was meant for Bobsmum btw!

[bobsmum]

I'll say yes after I've told my mum

[PTA]

I know it sounds silly, but ds2 was 10weeks premature and, while I neither loved nor loathed being pregnant, I feel I was cheated out of the best bits of being pregnant!

However at may age, 40, and ds2 having Downs it would not really be sensible, but still....................

[Tigana]

Other way round for me...majority says "wantonewantonewantone" then a vocal minority pipes ups saying "are you maaaaad woman?"

[Heartmum2Jamie]

I am rofl at this topic!

Right after I gave birth to ds2, dh asked when we should have the next one, I could have swung for him but had to settle for an evil glare. Then, because ds2 was a nightmare baby (not his own fault bless him, I wish I had known how ill he was much sooner)I SWORE that I would NEVER, EVER have anymore and really wanted ds2 adopted out (no word of a lie and I am terribly ashamed).

Now that ds2 is older, happy and stable health wise, my resolve has crumbled and i REALLY want another one. I suppose part of it is due to the fact that I feel I was cheated out of enjoying the tiny baby time with ds2, but I have given it alot of thought, I don't just want another baby, I want another child. God help me, lol!!

However, I made the mistake of discussing it with dh and although he hasn't said no, he wants to wait 3 years . I absolutely do not want to wait that long. I will just have to find a way to talk him around

[Nymphadora]

at bobsmum!

I was incredibly broody until about 2 weeks ago.I was at the stage where I was wanting to pinch babies and was having to avoid them cos it hurtso much.As I am in a new relationship I am not really in aposition to do anything about it! About 2-3 weeks ago I took the MAPand whatever it did to my hormones it seems to have subdued the little voice and I am free to enjoy my bf and wait for him to adapt to the idea

[Tigana]

heartmum..i too am biding my time with dh

[clapton]

I have DS nearly 8 and DD narly 3. We're at the cannot decide stage. Its sooo hard, I'm feeling very broody, then I'll change my mind then I will want one again.

[nutcracker]

I have 3 and would have another one tommorow.

There is just the teeny tiny problem of having no man to provde the essential ingredients

[MrsFish]

I have 5 weeks left till I have my second, and he is most definitely going to be my last, I HATE being pregnant, although I do LOVE the outcome

[Roseylea]

Hee hee Bobsmum! Congratulations!!! Wonderful stuff.

[LadyTophamHatt]

Yes.

But that voice in my head isn't a niggley little voice. it shouts at me.

[NAB3]

I'd love to have been able to have more.

[LadyTophamHatt]

Bobsmum, that possibly the best PG annoucemnet I've ever read on MN

Congratulations!

[bobsmum]

Roseylea - shhhhhhhhh -

Will tell the mums tonight but then I guess we have to wait out a few more weeks before it's public knowledge. But MN's not really the public is it?

Dh spent today online simultaneously researching vasectomies and how to fit a 3rd car seat in the back