@detachablehoof staying in with Erin is not an option, she HATES being home all day! She goes into childcare 3 times a week. I figure the park is one of the safest places to be, plenty of fresh air, as long as they’re not running around touching everyone! Swimming is meant to be good too as chlorine kills the virus.
I cannot imagine having another one, mainly due to the awful birth and the PND and she was a terrible sleeper with reflux/colic. My next door neighbour has just had her 2nd and her other one is about 18 months. It is soooo tiny. My mum would have been pregnant with me already as there’s 20 months between me and my sister. It doesn’t look like my DSis will have any (36, no partner) so it’s weird thinking she wouldn’t have close family, although DH’s half brother might have some (4 years younger than me). I’ve got a huge extended family so she’s got tonnes of relatives her age but no one I’m close as my mum is irish and they all live there.
I never really expected I’d have one so the idea of two is weird. I can’t really imagine it. And as I had an emergency c section I guess I’d have to have another and I was absolutely terrified and the pain after was horrendous. I fought a lot with my sister and don’t always get on now so I don’t have an amazing relationship to be nostalgic about, but it was good having each other at boring events etc.
I’ve actually very briefly looked into adoption, because I don’t really want to go through the birth and the sleepless nights again as it made my depression so bad, and I like the idea of providing a loving stable home to someone that really needs it. I’ll definitely wait until she 2 to see how I feel, but by then the gap will be massive anyway.
TBH even thinking about the logistics of two children stresses me out. My parents had their own business and we lived in a flat over it so they had a lot of flexibility when we were sick etc so it would be a very different ball game commuting in London!