Feeling broody after 12 weeks PP

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I have a 10 year old dd soon be 11 and an 11 week old ds. I dont know what has happened to me. I waited 10 years for a 2nd baby and now all I can think of is baby no 3. (I don't want anymore after 3) is this normal? Is it hormones? I'm asking because I never got broody after my DD hence why I waited 10 years I wasn't interested at all. Is this a normal feeling? It sounds awful but I feel like I've only got 1 child because dd looks after herself for the most part now I only need to actively look after my baby boy. I feel like he will be like an only child as she will be in high school and uninterested in playing with him. So having 3 kids isn't like usual where people have 3 young children it'll be more like having 2. She will be a teenager if I decide on baby no 3 as I would wait until ds is at least 2. Anyone else felt like this? Especially so soon after having a baby

I did! I came home from hospital after having DC2 and said to DH that I didn't think he'd be our last baby. DH was horrified, we had a new baby and DC1 was only 16 months old I was right though, we had DC3 about two and a half years later. I've never felt broody since, I knew I was done then.

Hormones. My second is a year old now. I'm now obsessed with the snip / tube tieing. 6 months ago I was determined to have a third.

@DramaAlpaca really? 🤣🤣 that's how I feel I feel I'm not done. Defo not after have birth with baby boy I said never again it was traumatic but since about 6 week old I've felt like this. But considering there's a 10 year gap between DD and DB I never expected this just wondering if it was hormones that I'd never experienced before lol

It’s hormones and be warned, your little girl may feel low maintenance now , but ime puberty is probably the the most challenging period of parenting. Teens need you in a far more emotionally demanding way than a baby.

@Franca123 ahh maybe I will change my mind when he hits 1 its really weird I never thought I'd feel this way when I was pregnant I had my mind set he is my last baby I feel its more I want him to have a play mate my daughter never had one and now she's very shy and sometimes socialist awkward

@Badnightguaranteed oh she is low maintenance in the looking after area but she is already going through moody spells puberty etc but overall not too bad... yet. She is very shy and reserved and I feel bad that I think its because she didn't have a sibling when she was young doesn't even have any cousins as I'm an only child and hated it

Hormones.
I was never sure I wanted kids, and then after my DS was born, I was like "I want a second one! And a third!"
6 months later I started thinking "I might just stick to one, actually".

I was warned about this by my GP, she said a lot of women get really broody around 3-4 months PP but it's just hormones!

It's definitely a thing. I know loads of women who talked incessantly about another baby around 3 - 7 months in.

Definitely hormones! I was the same, by 12 months the feeling disappeared. However i was going to have another I think I might have preferred to do it quickly, especially as I’m 39. Although you’re meant to leave it 12 months ideally for health reasons