If your childbearing years are over do you look at your brood and think.......

[LadyTophamHatt]

"blardy hell....I ever thought I'd have this many"

becasue I do.

Never in 70 biliion zillion years did I ever think I;d have 4 children.
I still acn't believe it now TBH and DS4 is 4months old.

No I thought I'd have one more than I do

Yes - constantly.
Have two and would love another two more but DH dead against it.

yes!

dinasaur that is fabulous!

at what age do you think your child bearing age is over?

I look at my 2,love them dearly and never ever want to go through pregnancy and tiny babies ever again.

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dino

i get excited thinking about what kind of people they're going to be, think of my sistesr, and hope that they will all have lovely relationships with each toehr too

(barf)

but serious !

winegum, i just know they are because although I'd alway want anither baby, the thought of being PG again does not appeal.

I'd have another if dh ever asked but there won't be any more planned tophamhatt children.

ds2 only 6 wks and I already want another one, though I agree with dino, the thought of my 2 bruisers as teens is frightening....

I did look at the 3 of them in the bath the other day and thought "bl**dy hell, they're all mine!"

There was a pile of children on my lawn yesterday and they were all mine. I was astounded. Dh also gets quite surprised about the three small people that ruin his sleep and make him laugh. It was my anniversary too so I was thinking back to pre-child days and sighing deeply.

I'm having my 6th but can't help looking wistfully art my bump and thinking,' this will in all probability be my last....'( I'm 44 so can't see it happening again..)

It really only hits me when i have to think of one of the middle childrens D.O.B's....and when under pressure to i'm like......ummmmmm..people must think i'm terrible not knowing my child's date of birth off the top of my head....i have to start at the oldest one and work my way down until i get to the required D.O.B!!

Filling in forms too.....when there isn't nearly enough boxes for all the names..lol

I can't believe I had one, let along three (and I'll secretly admit to already having longings for no. 4). I was not exactly what you would call homely in my youth (am now 33), I think I'll be surprising a lot of people at my 20 year school reunion.

I adore my brood and am loving being a mum third time round.

I think DH will find another wife if I get pregnant again though .

that would be on account of the fact that I was the worlds GREATEST BEEEEATCH when I was pregnant with DD.

LadyTop, still really wanting no4 myself, but cant quite get my head around it - seem to forget the pregnancy and not so easy births, just always wanted 4. 41.5 now tho, hence the worry. how do you like it with 4?

so tired tho - love the kids so much and just want to round it up to 4. am i crackers? others are 1,3 and 4 - got married quite late in life!!! too busy working, not now and dont intend to, love being at home with them all. tho do get exhausted and worn down by them when they answer back or fight with each other!!! usually happy all together tho.

winegum, I cannot tell you how lovely it is having 4.
Honestly, hand on my heart its been the easiest increase in offspring by a long long way. I'm not sure if its because DS4 is a particulary easy baby or if its because I've kind of done it all before so nothing is a shock to the system or too much hard work/stress....maybe its a combination of both.

I love the reactaion I get when I tell people I have 4, I love taking them all out together, especially if its just me taking them, I always feel like superwoman.
I think its unusual nowadays to have so many...is it still 2.4 children thats the norm??
Well who wants to be normal??

Ds4 is the cutest and loveliest (and most expensive) mistake we've made.

No because I knew once I had 2 that that was my limit. I do get broody now and again but also love my freedom I now have. I also love the fact that now mine are older I can have more 1 to 1 time.