Did you get broody for your second?

[Fourleaf]

I have heard a couple of people say that they didn't get broody for their second, it was more of a logical choice to do with providing a sibling, ideal age gap etc. Just wondering how widespread this is - did you get broody for your second DC? I have one DS (15 months) and am not broody at all, although both I and DH always wanted another one at some point, in theory. I know it's early days but I am wondering if I'll ever feel that overwhelming desire for a baby that I felt before DS...or is a lack of broodiness a sign that I may never really want a DC2?

yes. got completely, irrationally, desperately broody. But not when DC1 was 15 months old, not by a long chalk :)

No, I knew I wanted a second but had bad PND, hated the baby stage and had a bad pregnancy with DC1. So, we started TTCing DC2, aiming for an 18 month age gap to get the horror out of the way as quickly as possible. I knew` I couln't ever face starting again once DD was out of the baby phase.

DC2 - DS - is now 20 months, it was hard, but I'm glad we did it that way.

I have a 3.8yr old. I think I should have another baby, but am not broody for one. I don't think I will be in the same way ever again.

Yes, I was definitely broody for my second when DD1 was 18 months ish. I had the same longing for a baby as I had first time round. I also really longed for a sibling for my first.

It's funny though, before DD1, I wanted a baby for ages but with DD2 the feeling came on really suddenly. It was like all of a sudden I 'needed' another.

I have an eight month old daughter and am very very broody for a second. I am only putting it off because I know how awful I felt when I was pregnant, and I know my daughter wouldn't get the best of me for a long time due to that and then a newborn. She deserves to come first for a while longer I think.

But it is hard, it is on my mind every day.

To be honest, I didn't really feel "broody" for DD in the way that I read here that women feel, although she was definitely planned and wanted. DH on the other hand describes himself as madly broody for DD.

With DC2 (currently pregnant), again I didn't feel crazy broody, but it just felt like the right time (again planned and much wanted). DH: crazy broody for the new baby!

I think I just don't "do" broody.

I got broody.

I was adamant that I wanted a 3y age gap, and up til DD was 18mo I was obsessed with super-safe contraception as DID NOT want to get pg AT ALL.

Then all of a sudden it was like a switch went on and I was suddenly desperate for another baby! Ended up with a 2.5y gap cos I couldn't wait!

I didn't really get broody for my second, as such, although I did get pregnant when my first was about 15 months.

What I wanted from the outset was 2 children, and by the time my first was about a year old, I knew that I wanted to crack on. I wouldn't call it broody, though!

I am always broody tbh but I would say for my 2nd less so because pregnancy came as a suprise, but had that not have happened I think i would have became v strongly broody before too long. For my 3rd i was extremely broody probably more than my 1st even

I didn't. Was desperately broody for no. 1 and then, after DS was born, spent quite a bit of time thinking "never again" even though i'd always wanted two. Got slightly broody when he was about 7 months but put it down to hormones, which, indeed, perhaps it was as the feelings subsided. When DS was 15 months old I made a considered decision to TTC (DH would have started sooner had it been up to him) primarily to give him a sibling - and got pregnant straight away .

My lovely DD is now 10 months old and I am desperately broody for the no. 3 I never planned to have. DH, however, is not so fingers crossed it is a hormonal blip / grief at my last baby growing up that I will get over.