Has anyone thought about another baby so soon after giving birth?

[carli91]

Dont know wether this is the right place to post it but I gave birth to my beautiful son 2 weeks ago today and I miss everything about being pregnant and already talking about getting pregnant again! My OH has told me he wants us to wait 18 months but I really cant wait that long for another baby I just don't understand why im feeling like this

 

[SunnySue]

I have lost count of the amount of posts i have read saying this lol
Its perfectly normal, apparently something to do with your hormones? Give it some time and enjoy your newborn. These are precious times x

 

[SaraLouise]

I still feel like this now, and h is 14 weeks. I keep flipping between wanting to give h all the love & attention I can and really really moarning the loss of my bump, and all things pregnant related. I'm still bfing so have had no period so no chance of getting preggers again yet! But I don't know if I will be able to last as long as OH wants me to (he wants til wait til h is 2!) X

 

[redbear]

I did I wanted another straight away and coaught on when LO was 5 months, love a small gap but if I had my time again I would have waited a few more months x

 

[Becky1]

It's perfectly normal! I can say my desire has subsided but not gone away. I now realise it's not practical for another quite so soon.

I do miss my bump still and at first I found it really hard to share lo as when he was my bump he was all mine!! x

 

[carli91]

Thanks girls good to know im noy alone hopefully it will ease cause right now as much as I love my little boy all I can think about is my missing bump. I even lay awake of a night rubbing my belly :/ Becky im the same as you I hate others holding my lil one I just feel over protective of him and get really jealous of people holding him xx

 

[Becky1]

Carli - wish I could say the jealously goes... My friend and I have said we're in the crazy mum club as we're so protective, hate leaving them, don't want others feeding etc... Her little one is now 8mths!!x

 

[mummywanabe]

Oh I really miss being pregnant but its all rosey looking back I forget about the back ache, hip ache, nausea, vomiting, acne etc lol but id so do it agajn and sooner rather than later but id like to enjoy some time with this little one first

 

[kat1988]

it's the hormones! I hated being pregnant, it was horrible! but as soon as I held my daughter I wanted another one, and still do! I got contraception sorted asap (I know we realistically can't afford another one right now) if you really want another child have a good think about it, how would you cope being pregnant with a young toddler? would u be able to carry around a baby that cant walk properly/far while heavily pregnant, what if he's still waking at night when the 2nd lo arrives? can u afford it financially? if its really what u want go for it, if your oh is intent on waiting that's not such a bad thing as u get to spend lots of time with your 1st little angel before having another!

 

[mummywanabe]

Yeh im going to wait at least until ive my credit cards paid off, and ryan is toilet trained hooing maybe 2 years or so maybe 3, akthough age is also a factor ill be 34/35 by then so will c what happens

 

[CARNAT22]

It's perfectly natural to feel this way. We are pregnant for so long it takes a while to adjust to baby being outside and not in your tummy.

I had an amazing pregnancy so that made it even harder iykwim? I missed my wriggly bump so much. Fast forward a few months though and I couldn't even remember being pregnant lol. I knew I loved it and I blossomed and felt at peace but I couldn't actually remember?

I didn't feel broody as such, we actually had a broken condom when James was 2 months and I decided to take morning after pill (just in case) as I could not have coped with being pregnant again so soon.

We initially wanted a 2 year gap and I've now decided to make that 3 years lol. I love my boy so much and I want to enjoy his as long as possible and I want him to have my undivided attention. When and if we have another baby James will be older and I can give new baby a lot more time and attention.

Although dealing with a climbing, crawling, cruising, teething, non sleeping 11 month old is enough to make me consider James being an only child

xxxxxx