oh help....am i addicted to child bearing?

[ButterflyMcQueen]

Its such such early days but.....

dont feel like it is over yet and have just had dc 6 !!

It makes me blue as i want to feel like i am done.....but i dont

please say you have felt the same..did it resolve or????

I have four,and won't have more.
Had horrendous near death experience at no 4's birth,so that has kind of decided it for me.
I never felt 'finished' after no3,but I do now,plus am 41.
I think you kind of get swallowed up in baby things and want it to continue for ever,then when it ends and they become independant life improves and the baby nostalgia thing wears off.
Then they become teenagers and you realise how lovely babies are,and how that stage doesn't last long!

after ds1 and 2 I knew I wasn't done. After dd I knew I was.
Along came babytwit, and guess what? I'm feeling like maybe, just maybe.....

I try to make sense of it by telling myself that biologically we are programmed to want to procreate, and that actually 4 is enough [for us].

We have 5, 3ds and 2 dd. DD2 is 9 months old and will probably be my last but I would never say definitely and would really love another if I could persuade dh.

As for the stigma - I felt "different" from other families since we have had 4 but the children love having a large family and life's too short to worry about what strangers think!!

thanks for all the comments

hurryup i know you are right!

I feel the same, have 6 and although I know another would be wrong for so many reasons, I feel such a yearning. I really hope it will pass.

I felt broody after my fourth but I felt certain it was my hormones or something and sure enough it faded gradually. Now that he is 16 months I am no longer broody, just looking forward to the advantages of being past that stage now.

This fascinates me. I felt unbelievably broody for many years and have three children. However, after my third, that feeling just went away, and I definately feel "done" now. I guess some women just never get the "done" feeling, but I can totally sympathise, but I know it feels like to just have that desperate urge to want another baby. I'm glad it's gone for me now though.

I have 5 dc and my youngest is 2.5 and uo until a few days ago I was totally convinced my baby days were over but the broody feelings are creeping back in and I keep imagining a lovely new snuggly baby but for our family situation it would be very very selfish for me to have another plus I seem to have a lot more time for the dc I have now rather then always having a bump or new baby around .

I think I wont ever have another newborn again and it makes me sad .

I love giving birth and I love breast feeding so I would have definitely had more if I could have done.

Congratulations on number 6

I have 5 and want one more! I felt the same as you from the time ds2 was born (15 weeks ago!)

I know it would be more sensible to stop though, and dh is saying no, so who knows? Dh says that I am addicted to babies too

My personal feeling is that I will have to make myself stop now or after the next one, even if I don't want to. This is for lots of reasons, my body, my age, money, space, my career and giving them all the attention they need etc etc.
What does your dh say?

pollyanna he is not pleased......

i wish i did not feel like this

kittiwise i will watch this space!

hi BM did you see my post asking the same thing?

Just cannot now imagine this is my last newborn

Nope, no resolution

Had no. 7 a week ago, 6 years after no 6 and aged 41.

Had to add to this post, I have four children, 9, 4, 2 and 10 months, after my youngest was born really thought that was it, we are short of space anyway (rented house) and money!! But then last month my period was late, convinced myself I was pregnant, when I did the test it was negative, I felt disappointed, now I can't stop thinking about getting pregnant again, had unprotected sex last night and I know its around the time I am ovulating. I am addicted I am sure, if I am pregnant again will have to be sterilised just so decision is taken away, otherwise I think I would carry on.