Has anyone ever been surprised to feel broody?

[Bucketsofdynomite]

Can't stop thinking about having another child, it's just so not me though!
I had a traumatic birth for my eldest and got pg by accident just under a year later with DS. He'll be 2 next week and I finally feel like I'm out of the babyzone and am really looking forward to this summer because of that. I love all the benefits of only having two but now I'm thinking how nice it would be to have 3 when they're older.
Have had baby envy since about November when friend had her 2nd but it's been getting worse and I actually admitted it to DH today. He was quite shocked and laughed at me (well, with me really) and we've not talked about it since. Last year I was pushing him to get a vasectomy and in tears one time I thought I might have been pg so I've got no idea what he's feeling. I told him it's partly because I was so not ready for DS but now I feel strong enough to handle it if I did get pg again.
I'm so confused, I don't know if it's just a little obsession I'm going through or whether I really do want another one (not that it would be up to me anyway.) I've got the same jittery 'revelation' feeling I had when I realised I could be a SAHM which I now know was the right decision.

Maybe you are ready for another. Would it be so bad?

me=same boat

if you work out what to do let me know!

I sometimes think how nice it would be to have a baby with my children now getting to a much more independent age - DS has just turned 6 and DD about to turn 4 - they would be wonderful with a baby !!! BUT I'm 43 and DH 51 so feel that we're too old SO.....we've picking up a puppy at the weekend !!

I think I feel guilty about DS because it's taken us this long to really accept him iyswim, we loved him and everything but we've really hated the past 2 yrs 9m and kind of blamed it on him and his babyness. We loved having just the one and it was like he was uninvited and seemed like a burden or a pennance. Having another one because I feel in control again, to do it the way I always meant to iyswim - seems like I'd be writing him off somehow? Do you think that's a bad reason? Esp as there's no guarantees that everything would go right anyway and we might get an incredibly high maintenance baby LOL.