Oh for heavens sake, please remind me that two Inferiorettes is enough!

[motherinferior]

I am very, very bad at pregnancy - hate it from start to finish, not including the SPD. I am also appalling at dealing with small babies. They reduce me to a snivelling wreck on the constant brink of ringing Social Services. I find parenting a constant struggle which is only negotiated by dint of constant whingeing on-line and in person to everyone I know. Now that my younger daughter has turned two - and I indeed have turned 42 - I am finally reclaiming some sense of my life As It Was Known Before.

Please remind me that I don't want another baby and that my current broodiness is just a pre-menopausal blip of insanity!

MI - You pregnant yet?

cluck cluckety cluck cluck

(dh won't hear of it )

Havent read the whole thread but babies interfere with MN time...you couldnt possibily

Not read the whole thread but hugely sympathise MI, but, scary thought, what if the broodiness goes on forever? No matter how many you have you still want more. i have had those fears...

Number 3 has to be a boy, MI. Think about your journalistic integerity - atm your articles are going to be skewed by the girlyness of the MI household, you need a little bit of miniDP testoterone running about...........

0-1 scarey, life changing stuff
1-2 not as a bad as I thought
2-3 hardly noticed the difference (although I really noticed the lack of sleep)
3-4 never going to know unless I win the lottery, but I can dream

I'm a third child. Don't do it.

ooh that sounded gloomy! I'm not gloomy! but my brother and sister sure were because my parents had zero energy to be strict any more so I got ice cream at 10 pm, watched all the telly I liked etc. All I remember of my bruv and sis when younger was frowns of disapproval and chorus of 'when I was your age...'

Don't think MI will dare come back to this thread - will she, won't she?

I have been working, thank you very much.

Today I am mostly feeling not broody. Tomorrow, my dear, is another day

I've been to the park today and seen around 300 pregnant ladies. Last week when I saw them I thought, 'Poor things'. Today, thoughts of 'Ahhhh. Lookat'er.Mmmmm' began to return. Uh oh!

(ds4 is 6 months old)

Hi MI - when dd2 turned 2 I knew it was more or less make my mind up time. so I did nothing. I occassionally lingered longingly in the baby bit of John Lewis (exciting venue of that first pram purchase) and listened happily to the unique noise the automatic door to the baby feeding room maked; I sometimes glanced at the wonderful array of sippy cups and weaning spoons in the local chemists; and I sneaked the odd look at the bottom drawer in my bedroom stuffed with the baby clothes that were just too good for friends or the charity shop. But the thing that kept me sane was the sure knowledge that I could NEVER farm 3 children off all at once. Maybe the fact I knew I would want to was what did it. If you are anything like me you know it really is madness. Although I did find it incedibly irritating when I thought of a REALLY good name.

Ah, but I can't farm out even two! Or one, come to that!

you could always get a dog

You can farm out three! All my three are currently ensconced chez MIL, while dh and I enjoy the silence, and I get my tax return done (the excitement!).

Mind you, when the children are away is the only time I catch up with the laundry or the tidying. Or complete a train of thought. I'm staggered by how much it's possible to get done if you're not constantly interrupted, which is a pretty good indication of the state of my usual life.

Oh MI, just do what your instincts tell you. Close your eyes and pretend a little blue line has just appeared on the stick. How do you feel?

ROFL at hatstand

But it's true, you can farm out 3, though not necessarily all in the same place - when my kids were smaller I used to have some wonderful friends (all moved away now, gnash gnash) who would occasionally offer to relieve me of my remaining child/ren when the other/s had gone out for tea or something.

(Easier to farm out kids than a dog I think!)

but I thought perhaps the dog could baby-sit

Ohhh, you mean like Nana?

Great idea

I am thinking seriously of getting pregnant

I meant I have no MIL or suchlike out to which to farm them. It makes a massive difference.

I never manage to get rid of all 3 at the same time. I always get left with one, usually Ds.

MI - I know what you mean there - my parents are 300 miles away, so babysitting just isn't an option. I am SO jealous of people who can just drop their kids off for an hour or so while they go to the supermarket etc. How are you feeling about another baby now?

Less keen

LOL