HELP!! Just got a positive result and DD is only 4 months. I need some positives from anyone with experience.

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Well the above says it all.

I really can't believe it, have done a test this morning and DD is only just 4 months old. Aaaah!!

My head is spinning and I cannot think straight.

I need anyone with experience of this to help me make sense of what's going on and tell me that it will all be ok!!

DH is completely supportive and actually quite happy about it all. I, on the other hand, feel like I'm going into freefall.

Told my parents this morning. They were surprisingly calm and have a very que sera attitude.

Definitely helped.

DH has kindly taken DD out for the aft so Im lounging in bed! The sickness is starting to kick in already!

The other thing is that I don't really know how far along I am. Have only had 1 period since DD birth so no idea what my cycle is doing!

MrsTittleMouse, you should hear the comments I get about being the mother to 'only' boys, grrrr - obviously the only reason we kept on making babies was to 'get' a girl. NOT. .

Interesting to read that other 'early' 2nd time mothers felt The Guilt. Why oh why do we always find a stick to beat ourselves with??

Glad to be of assisstance, Ipredict .

Congratulations!

Benefits:
They will be too close in age for the older one to feel jealous when the younger one's born.
In around 18 months they'll be at the same stage and things will get very easy (my 2 are harder work separately)
They will be best friends, possibly all their lives. (DB and I are 12mo apart and very close.)

Congratulations!!!!

Be prepared for the ribbing (my first thought was he was a lucky bloke! Most of them aren't in the position of being able to father another child that quickly!! LOL). But as long as you take it in your stride and don't have a sense of humour bypass you'll be fine.

Anyone who says anything negative just needs a kick up the pants! Glad to oblige....

All age gaps have their pro's & con's - you'll get your 'con's' all out and done with in the first year or two then you'll be free to sit back and watch them get on really well!!

I'm so grateful for all the responses ladies

The thing is, people will always find something daft to say, whatever the age gap. There's almost six years between my two, and I get comments about that. People don't seem to realise that sometimes the timing is decided for you!
I would have liked mine to be closer in age but it's just the way it worked out. Lots of posters have come up with fab reasons why this will work out well. Many congratulations to you

sorry, meant to say CONGRATULATIONS! And you've told you're parents - you're my hero! I have no idea how pg I am either, just going on how long I've been feeling sick for.

Childcare fees will be over quicker.

Less likely to be sibling rivalry

Hopefully Clothes will be be similar seasons to when DC1 was born.

Good luck and congratualations.

Ps get a Babyjogger city mini double!

Good idea motherof.... Congrats to you too.

I think I've been feeling off it for about 2 weeks or so. But then with DD I didn't start to feel sick until I was about 8 weeks. I guess we'll just have to wait for the 1st scan to get an accurate due date.

However, by some of my very rough calculations DC2 will be due around the same time as DD's 1st b'day. Just another thing to make me feel guilty!

Ipreditct and motherof, that's what early dating scans are for...

When I told my mother, she did not believe me ; even thought the scan picture I showed her with a huge 16 week gestation CHILD waving at her was some kind of con!

Thanks for all the pushchair tips...going to start some research soon. May distract me from the other implications.

Drop the guilt thing RIGHT NOW!

I felt exactly the same but now tell myself that the best thing that could have happened to my children was to have a sibling so close.

I'm glad your parents were cool about it. I bet they are thrilled!

Oh, oh, birthdays : my DS4 was born on DS2's 6th birthday - another thing I felt a bit bad about but thankfully so far DS2 is delighted about his special birthday present .

You're right colourful, I need to focus on how lucky I am to have fallen pregnant again so easily.

Glad that DS2 is cool with it pacific. Long may that continue.

Dh's cousin has three girls under 1 (dd2 & dd3 are id twins) & all will eventually be in the same year at school. She says she can see people calculating when dh and she must have had sex and they look vaguely horrified - but she is of an evil bent and thoroughly relishes their attempt to mask their faces! She says something similar to Colourful which is she wanted them close together and is thrilled to bits. Her's is a mad-house but a very lovely one.

Congratulations

congratulations

Bigchris - your first comment did make me though - OP posts to say "OMG I'm pregnant with other DC still teeeny"

and your advice is about what pushchair to get

All advice gratefully received.

My friend has two DDs 15 months apart and although I think she did find the first few months with both hard work, they are 5 and nearly 4 now and have been brilliant friends since they were little.

aww congratulations. other posters are right, they will be close and older dd too young to be jealous. i would love to have had mine as close as that.

posters who are saying 5 months. do you mean your dc was 5 months old when you got pregnant or when the next baby was born (premature)?

booyhoo - 5 months at conception. What do you take me for??

Re calculating conception dates: you should see the faces when people become aware that all my boys (4) were born in the same month .

i am guessing september babies pacific? new year is such a magical time

Waaaaaaay off the mark !

And it only really happened because I had babies over 2 weeks late and one 10 weeks early so they all ended up in one calender month.

But yes, I do get asked by random aquaintances whether we only do it once a year....

Lol pacific, BTW, I am in awe of you, 4 boys!! Good on you.