Only broody when ovulating

[Baublesonthetree]

DC is a year old and I like the idea of having a small age gap and would like another baby soon. However, I know that we should ideally wait until mid 2020 to consider TTC again, due to employment issues/childcare costs etc. I also suffered badly with sickness in first pregnancy. I’m happy with this plan to wait a bit.

However, for a week of every month (when ovulating) I am wildly broody and completely irrational with it. I would do anything in that week to get pregnant! I never used to get PMS but since having DC my hormones seem to be wild every month, and I get really down the week before my period comes on.

I feel like a slave to these swings in hormones. My DP would quite happily start TTC now and I’m worried I will end up pregnant in one of these crazy broody weeks.

Has anyone else experienced this? How did you deal with it? And has anyone become pregnant due to this and regretted it?

Bump!

I wouldn't have thought hormones could make you broody. Horny maybe but not broody. Maybe stop thinking of it as something you don't have control over like that. Kids are a choice, not an impulse. Sex is an impulse. But luckily that's why condoms exist.

But you could say too hubby: 'Ive noticed my hormones seem to be influencing my ability to think rationally from time to time. So need you to take responsibility and make sure to use a condom no matter what. Because I don't want another kid yet'.

If he can't do that, I wouldn't be sleeping with him again until I wanted a kid. If at all tbh xD

Thanks for your reply. I know that logically it should be that simple and I think I’ll just have to avoid all sex during that week because I can’t be trusted.

And yes, there is the horny-ness but it’s completely dependent on whether a baby could be conceived through it. Maybe I’m alone in this! And it must be hormones, I never ever used to have such swings in mood?!

They probably influence your impulse control. There are probably certain times of the month for me that a bit of online shopping is harder to resist because I'm more 'me wants me takes' lol. Instead of thinking it through.

Maybe speak to a doc about the PMS. Seems a shame that your hormones are having more say in your life and happiness than you are.