If you've decided you're one and done

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Does the longing for another get any easier?

Just wondering as struggling a bit today, thanks.

I have zero longings! I like having my DC all to myself 🤗

@Newmummy2225 hahaha this is what I need but I don't know that many people with 2 young DCs. I don't have any siblings so think that is making this harder as we're a small family anyway so no cousins for LO 😔

I understand 😔
Our wee one has 3 young cousins (one just a few months older), so that eases my guilt about her not growing up with a sibling x

This. DD is 8 and only for about 10 minutes during COVID lockdown did I wish she had a sibling to play with but this year I've been getting broody/wistful. I'm mid 40 so I'm not sure if I've got a peri "last chance saloon" thing going on but you've summed it up that I really miss her as a baby. I was in a cafe yesterday and looking at the babies and toddlers and thinking "could I?" but I really don't think I could.

I was 1 and done. Never had a longing for another and 30 years on, still no regrets. I do miss the 2-6 year old her though....everyday was an adventure and I just loved her weird imagination.

Nope. I am one and done with every fibre of my being!!

I've always been one and done. DD was born flyer a not great pregnancy (preeclampsia) which led to a filed induction and EMCs due to signs of distress. When she was born she had a life threatening birth defect that required surgery at two days old.
I remember being in hospital, alone, the day after giving birth and the midwife saying to me I would get much more monitoring in my next pregnancy. I remember thinking 'if you think I'm doing this again you're on something' and it's never changed.