Really want a second child but more responsible to wait?

[delilah89]

That's it really. My baby is 1 and I'd love to TTC. I'm a professional in a job I've worked hard to get and am currently moving between posts/looking for a new job. We have decided to wait until I have safely moved to the next long-term job but I'm not sure I want to wait that long. If we do, it will be 6 months minimum until I TTC.

Has anyone else been in this kind of situation, where it is more practical to wait but you really want to get cracking and have the kids close together?

[minipie]

ah oscar if only I could guarantee my dc2 would be easy! (where do you get these easy babies by the way? )

[oscarwilde]

No idea - the luck of the draw. Plus I earned an easy baby with DD1, several times over. Maybe I did something differently - definitely didn't rush to pick her up at every squeak, but I think it is just luck.

It seems to be a common theme - those with easy first babies, have little horrors the second time around and vice versa. But then there are the less lucky folk who are still co-sleeping 4 to a bed when their kids are school age....

[minipie]

Oh I hope you're right oscar. I think I've earned an easy one too! (and I must admit I slightly want friends who've been smug about their easy pfbs to have more difficult dc2s and realise it's not down to their superior parenting skills...)