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Six gorgeous children but baby growing up too fast and I'm broody...help!!

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minipinkscottish · 14/04/2009 16:11

Hi, I have 6 children, 4 ds's and 2 dd's ranging in age from 16 years to 10 months. I am 40 and work part time as a teacher. I know it's time to stop having babies but could cry every time I think of never giving birth again...am I mad? And at 10 months how many months do I have left to bf? I can't think about never bf again....I am mad!!
Part of me looks forward to sleeping, nights out and me time but those things are nothing compared to my dc's.
Anyone else feel the same?

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minipinkscottish · 04/05/2009 08:09

Well said Barnum
I am just back from a weekend away watching ds3 playing ice hockey for Scotland Under 13's. It was fantastic and I was so proud of him Other weekends are spent on the sidelines at rugby watching ds2 or in a swimming pool watching ds1 It is a very busy life with a big family but so so rewarding!!!

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Barnum · 29/04/2009 17:12

Yeah,minips I don't know what makes people think they can comment in that way on someone else's private life!? I also think it's a sad fact that nowadays people think you're strange if you have more than 2 kids! I love having a bigger family and would have been happy to have had more if possible. There are advantages/disadvantages to everything and of course we can't always do what smaller families do but family life compensates us in other ways - we're very blessed

minipinkscottish · 29/04/2009 08:22

Hi Barnum I know what you mean about rude people

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SuziSeis · 26/04/2009 22:29

well done on the girl fifth time!!

with any luck one of your lovely boys will make that happen soon!

Barnum · 26/04/2009 22:16

I've got 5 - from age 21 down to 3 tomorrow! People are sooooooo rude - asking if we haven't got TV etc and sometimes I get really fed up with it - it's been our choice to have a big family, altho I did want them closer together - nature took its time on that one! Our first 4 are boys and our daughter was a lovely surprise - I'd love for her to have a sister, but I'm 40 now & dh has had a vasectomy so no chance of that now . I still can't escape the hard fact that every time I see a newborn/small baby I think I want one of those! Nevermind, I'll just have to look forward to the grandchildren!!

SuziSeis · 26/04/2009 21:50

aww hope she is OK

N has been total love bug today - LOVED Ikea ( good job!)

I look 195 though so not sure if more babies would be cruel to them!

minipinkscottish · 26/04/2009 21:22

Abbie has been really unwell this weekend with sick bug.......poor wee darling....hard work though....)minipink rolls eyes to ceiling...sighs and thinks)....nope still broody

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SuziSeis · 26/04/2009 21:11

been broody today

Cadmum · 24/04/2009 22:40

Hmmm... I am NOT going to get broody.

I was just thinking that the way things work for us that it would be trying for #6 that lead to a twin pregnancy and then I would have to go for 8.

I am DONE! Right?

Too bad my DH is like SK's. He is always working on the idea.

He does not have to puke for 7 weeks (or more) and then carry the baby for a further 28 worrisome weeks though, does he? To say nothing of establishing breastfeeding...

For some strange reason, dd2 (db4) was the absolute worst feeder and is still a horrible sleeper so she is good birth-control for sure!

As for names, there are so many that have gone unused...

This thread is NOT helpful. I should try and find the hide feature!

minipinkscottish · 24/04/2009 22:39

poledra I think it's because our 08 babies were so gorgeous we all want to do it again[frin]

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minipinkscottish · 24/04/2009 22:37

Me too chatkins and no sk you are NOT helping ...but I love it!!!!

Nightxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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SuziSeis · 24/04/2009 22:37

maybe 9 months is a good age poledra

when they turn three we will have the thread wiped !

Poledra · 24/04/2009 22:36

I'm loving the naming of imaginary siblings - I wanted to call each of the DDs (I have 3, for those who don't know me) Maeve, but DH said it was an old lady's name .

I won't be having any more babies (too old, DD3 was ill with a condition which will be likely to recur with all subsequent pgs) but am sad that I won't bfeed again once DD3 stops.

How come there are so many of us from the July 08 postnatal thread on here??

sweetkitty · 24/04/2009 22:35

DD3 was asleep on me today and I love when they cuddle into you shoulder and side of your head with their little warm heads, DD3 is just about getting too big for it now.

I am not helping anyone's broodiness am I?

Chatkins · 24/04/2009 22:35

This has been fun ladies, but I must go to bed ! Night night all x

SuziSeis · 24/04/2009 22:35

give me a nine month old i would be ecstatic

sweetkitty · 24/04/2009 22:33

If someone would just give me a just born baby all floppy headed with the wee cross eyed look etc etc I would definitely be happy but cannot face being pregnant again.

Anyway I'm having one of Dizzy's twins

minipinkscottish · 24/04/2009 22:32

oh and dizzy I also have to have twins....that would be fantasitic

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Chatkins · 24/04/2009 22:32

Jarvis ? I used to have a bit of a crush on jarvis cocker, i do like a skinny nerdy man!

SuziSeis · 24/04/2009 22:32

my girls name list is yards long

sweetkitty · 24/04/2009 22:32

chatkins - I agree the idea of a boy one and a pink one side by side well aww, the reality would probably be different, I was looking at someone on here's pics of her BG twins today and I must admit I was a bit although it would probably happen to me if I was brave enough to squeeze another little one in, twins.

minipinkscottish · 24/04/2009 22:31

Hee Hee I love this....I would love to use the name Jarvis for a ds and Levi for a dd.......this is not helping guys

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SuziSeis · 24/04/2009 22:27

lucky you sk!!

Chatkins · 24/04/2009 22:24

Ooh I would love it if my dh was like that sweetkitty! He just isn't. He loves our kids, and they were all planned and totally agreed on, but he freely admits he would have been just as happy if we had stopped at one, or two. He just doesn't have that broody urge at all. I think I'll win him around eventually though. Might take a few years,m but I've got time!

We've got twins on both sides Cadmum - my oldest sister has twins. So far me and my other sister have aavoided them, I think tbh I would find the pg terrifying, as there is so much more that can go wrong! But the thought of a little blue and pink bundle side by side, is very lovely!

sweetkitty · 24/04/2009 22:16

That's the thing it's me that needs convincing not DP, he keeps looking at DD3 (who is exceptionally gorgeous ) and saying "aww she might be our last one, she cannot be our last one"

Not him that gets the sickness, SPD, labour, piles, engorged boobs, BFing every 2 hours and is at home all day breaking up the fighting.

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