Put me off please!

[peckarollover]

Im getting mega broody

remind me how horrible pregnancy is

also all your maternity clothes are stil in my wardrobe....

And remember your obsession with finding a routine...

im seriously suffering from rose tinted memory

i cant remember the growth spurts being too bad kitty?!

yes, but i found one that worked? could do it again couldnt i

kitty you have same age kids as me - am i mad?

Completely, utterly and totally and how the hell do you manage to get me time ?

Once a week I pay a nursery 27 pounds for them to take the youngest whilst the eldest is in school

bliss!

and have fairly regular nights out with friends when i fancy and leave kids in with daddy

ooooh I shouldn't have opened this thread. I've got three and am planning on having a fourth, so NO WAY should I be posting on here.....!!!

BUT pecka I was in your position - really didn't know if I wanted to have a third. Dh was really keen, it took me years to decide to have another. Fortunately he never put me under any pressure; I knew how he felt but the final decision was all mine. Gradually I realised I was thinking about it more and more, until I was obsessing about it - then it clicked that this feeling wasn't going to go away until I had another child! By this point dd1 was 7 and dd2 was 6 - so a big age gap - but it felt right to us.

ive got a pic that will put you off

Miaou - annnnnnnnnnd............? how is having 3 suiting you?

Better you than me. Nothing's set up for 3. There are only 2 windows in the backseat. Hotel rooms - 2 or 4. Holiday packages - 2 or 4. Rollercoasters in amusement parks - 2 seats. 'Family' tickets for a lot of things - 2 kids, two adults. Tables in restaurants - 2 or 4.

I admire the over 35s who have kids. B/c I know at 34 how s*ite I already feel, I can't imagine - me, personally - having more after this. No way.

Just don't have the energy.

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I had DD at 18 so Im still quite young. I am now 24 until a week tomorrow!

OK constructive response now - at 8 and 7 my dds are not hard work at all. They dress themselves, feed themselves (even make their own breakfast), help bath the baby,amuse him, amuse themselves when necessary ... their needs are so different now, it's much more emotional input than practical. Add to that, they are at school all day so I get 1 to 1 with ds all day. He is also usually asleep when they get in from school so I get quality time with them. Dh is also very hands on - he doesn't start work until 9.30am so I often get to lie in if I've had a heavy night.

ok just looked at the pic again and have to say I WANT ANOTHER [stamping my foot]

[stamping foot too]

i want one

i supose if i want another i should start having sex again lol(dd is 7 months)

Headaches, Rib pain, no alcohol (or fun), awkward sex, fatness, and partners are most likely to cheat when a woman is pregnant! bad thot!

peckarollover - I know exactly how you feel. I have 2 girls 7yrs and 19months but would love another. one of my best friends has just had one, my other friend is due 22nd dec and sil is due 30th dec. If I can hold off til they are all born perhaps I won't want one after all.

you will be forever skint. 18 more years of skintness - and thats if your lucky and they move out at 18 - which isn't likley. how old are you now? add 18 years - that will be when you get your life back - if your lucky.

you will have to wait for another 14 years before you can go out without a babysitter and get shitfaced. -presuming you can get a babysitter.

piles
tearing
stitching
bleeding
giving birth and not having or wanting sex for weeks.
stinging when you wee
having a sore punani for weeks
not being able to poo
sickness
backache
always wanting the goodbaby stuff you cant afford - this will run on for the next 18 years - you will forever want things for your kids you can't afford.

then thees a biggee

try praying that at least one of your children will not be bright enough to go to university.

can you live with that one? cos you wont be able to afford to pay 3 of them through !

I've got sinusitis, which I did not realise could be a side effect of pregnancy. Try no sleep. Or waking up gasping for breath. Or trying to sleep in an armchair, rasping for breath. Yeah, it causes a lot on anxiety.

I'm thinking of having my tubes tied in addition to my husband having the snip (his choice) just to make sure I never, ever conceive again.

Er...what goes in must come out. Wild horses wouldn't drag me back to that delivery suite!! Crowning...ouch...that burning pain...like you're being split in half... don't go there...

You are really young too pecka. We all get broody but if you have another baby each time you feel broody you will end up with loads of kids!
They don't stay babies for long, remind yourself of that, doesn't childminding babies make you feel less broody??? It does me, I love it, but it also makes me apreciate my time as my children are getting easier (slightly) now.

You could always have another one (or two) when your two are older. That's what I plan to do, that way you get the best of both worlds really, as do the children imo

perhaps you would have difficulty ttc this time and thats a lot worse than pregnancy. I got pregnant instantly first time but I may not be able to have another one. If you can avoid the heartache of that I would.

I am 25 today! So still very young but I dont fancy the idea of starting all over again when these two are younger. If I had another one now I would be 43 when it was 18.