would love another baby but can't face another pregnancy

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And before you ask, no no adoption just won't do once you know that you are able to bake your own...

DS2 is 3 months old, DH is dying for another, and I would be happy to oblige but the last two pregs were such hell. No other word for it.

Vomiting all 9 months, bad pelvic pain, and now gestational diabetes. Fortunately that appeared late in the last pregnancy, so didn't have to be annoyed by it for too long.
But they say once you've had gest diab you get it everytime.
Now how do you on the one hand have sickness that can only be helped by eating big helpings of carbs (enormous rice or potato salads with things in it for breakfast) while not being allowed to eat sugars most of the time because of the diabetes (fortunately no insulin was needed)?

Has anyone heard of a miracle doctor, oseopath, acupuncturist, don't care which speciality that can cure/prevent all these problems? I live in South London.

My husband hated the pregnancies because they changed me so much (constantly sick, exhausted, and walking painfully). Life together became pretty hard, to say the least because no other pregnant woman he's ever met seemed troubled by their pregnancies.

Fortunately we're back to honeymoon mood now and a big relief it is!

Thanks all

on my second (worse this time) HG pregnancy and in your shoes I wouldn't do it. You say DH really keen, what about you? He doesn't have to go thru pg so I don't think it's fair for him to pressure you. 3 months is also quite soon to be thinking of another.

The memory does fade. I detest being pregnant, had a horrible pregnancy with DD1 vomitted from conception until the hour she was born, depressed, miserable, foul wife

The decision to have a second wasn't too difficult as I didn't want DD to be an only child if possible, but the pregnancy with DD2 was no easier and I vowed no more.

DD2 is now almost 3, and DH would have another tomorrow, I'm just about in a position where I'm beginning to think that possibly I could handle it once more.

Give it some time?

Hi I wanted to say on my first I spent 5 months of my pg in hospital and the rest to ill to leave my bed and was scared to have a second DC. I spoke to my gp and we went through my pg and looked at each problem and he offered a way to minimise my risk of the problems I had. Also we worked on miimising the symtoms.

EG I am anemic normally so while pg by 8 weeks I was admitted because I was stood in the queue at the doctors when without warning I feinted hit the groud damaging my knee and was unconscious for about 10 minutes. I was admitted for this and given weekly transfusions and was unable to leave the bed unaided, until I had safe iron levels which was when after I had my second scan. So we built my iron levels up before I got pg on my second and I didnt have to have transfusions on my second but took iron tablets from before I was pg until I gave birth.

I did something similar with my other problems and my pg was much better can you ask your GP if there is anything you can do to minimise the symtoms before you get pg or your risk of getting some of these problems.

Gosh crawling, you went through some serious hell you poor thing. I wouldn't do any harm to talk to my GP I suppose but when I told her about going through all this during the pregnancy she wasn't that inspired.

Pipoca and breeze, I am 37 and feel that the longer I wait the more complicated the pregnancy is likely to be. Late pregnancy makes me nervous!