Another bub or is this one your last?

[babynumberone]

:wave: July, August & September Mummies!

Just wondering if your latest bub will be your last one or if you plan to have another?
If you are planning another one, how old will this bub be?

Zaydn is our first and we are planning to try for #2 when he is around 15 months old.

What about you???

[fire~fly]

well we had planned for ethan to be our last because we only wanted 2 kids, but he is such a cruisy baby, the birth was great, the b/f is going great, i want another one now!!! or if i could just freeze ethan for a while i'd be happy. just not ready for him to grow up yet.
dh still really only wants 2, so not sure what will happen down the track. if we were to have another on i would try when ethan is about 18months.
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[Misheycat]

DD wasn't planned though we had discussed having kids "when the time was right". We had only just set a date to get married & had been saving for a house, so when I fell pregnant it was a shock but funnily enough my DH took the news better than expected.

Now we have Chloe my DH is in love with her, however it freaks him out when family ask when we'll be having the next one, he keeps saying "let us deal with this one first" :(. He also gets really frustrated at times during her unsettled times, so he's not in a rush for another.

I would love a brother or sister for Chloe and before I'm 35 if possible (so that gives me 6 years :cool:), having 2 would be ideal, I guess time will tell (just as long as it doesn't take too long, it took him 6 years to propose to me :rolleyes:).

[Melmc]

Bridie is out first and last...we always only planned to have one...although I'm getting a lot of pressure from my family (esp. Mum) to have another. I didn't have a good pregnancy towards the end either, which jeopardised Bridie's health...I don't know that I trust my body to do it all again. We just plan to spoil her rotten! She's sure to turn into a total brat! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

[kali]

We're hoping for two. Leela is an IVF bub and I'm turning 40 next year so it may be she'll be our one and only. However we have 3 frozen embryos left from our last cycle so we might be lucky. My OB said its best to leave it 12 months between pregnancies when you've had a CS so we'd probably be looking at another IVF cycle around August next year.

I don't really want them that close together but with my age and all, we feel we can't afford to wait.

[jaydensmum]

When Ariana was first born my DH has definite that she was our last but i wasnt keen on that idea. :no: Four months on and now hes saying to others "we might have another one down the track"!! :D I know i definetly want another one or two would be nice!! :yes::D With when it will happen well it wont be til Ariana's at least 2 or 3yrs. I have 3 under 3 at the moment and i happy with that for now. :)

[Pax]

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[Pina Colada]

Addison is our last. Which sometimes makes me have a little sad feeling in my stomach, but mostly I am happy with that.

[Shazza]

hey :wave:

well we just had our second and im definately not finished! will prob go for our third in a couple of years and not sure about no.4! dont know that i could have anymore than that due to having c/s's :(

cheers shaz:D

[Pina Colada]

Shaz - my ob said he has performed up to 6 c-sections on some mums. So I guess it can be done! :D

[petalbum]

Josh is our first and I am hoping that he won't be our last - would love another one:D not to worried about age gap - but me being 37 and DH being 38 - I dare say we shouldn't wait too long:no:

It's the Best job in the world being a Mum!!! wouldn't change a thing.:thumbsup::smiliedance:

[Mahjong]

DS2 was our last. We're definately happy and content with our two boys. We love our little guys to bits.

[ellie13]

Well might I say.....I am in love:cloud9::valentine::goodvibes: with my 2 girls, and DH is really on love with his little girl, so we are not finished here.....so health permitting, we will be trying for no 3 when Bianca is 12 mnths or so, and than we will see......hope for no4 after that maybe???? In the stars.

[JJJ&D'sMum]

LOL what a question. Check out what's written next to my avatar and you'll see that Deon is my last.

After DD was born we had no intention of having any further babies but obviously we had an Oops bub. I wouldn't change it for the world though....he's just too cute.

[~mia&ryan~]

Ry is our second and more likely than not we will have another. We are waiting until his is about 3 though. :goodvibes::goodvibes:

[Aysha'sMummy]

Aysha is my first and probably my last for quite some time unless her dad decides to wake up to himself and change. then i will consider having another in maybe 2 years time

[lunawolfspirit]

Dh and i want more now that we have Elinore. we always said 2 but now we r thinking of a big family ... i guess we will just wait and see but becoming a parent is the best thing i have done in my life. i always used to say there has to be more then life then having kids ....well i think i was soooo wrong nothing beats it

[littleleos]

I love being mum and we a def not stopping at 1... not sure when we are stopping we have 4 spare seats in out car to fill... enough room for 2 sets of bunk beads and room to extend our house up but not our!

I was just having a conversations with my hubby last night about how many kids he was going to let me have....

this is the rule...
2 ... if we have a girl next
4 ... if we have 3 boys he let me get pregnant for a girl....
he doesnt wanna have 3 as the middle one will get middle child syndrome....:laughing:

gee I am happy to have 4 boys...

hard to know what age gap.... would be easy to plan if u could just fall pregnant without practicing to much:laughing:

[Terrible2+1cutie]

I would be happy to have 4 kids but had trouble convincing DP for number 3 (3 being our girl try) so don' t like my chances. We have a big enough house for 4 kids but would need a bigger car i guess.

I have until DP books into have the snip to convince him otherwise, i keep thinking a girl would be nice but i am so happy with 3 boys at the moment.

[ellie13]

warning- please no one take this comment in a negative way, just an observation I made to my hubby the other day, when we were chatting how many kids we want...... isn't it funny how the size of our car is one of the common comments when talking how many kids.....I hear so many people saying....can't have more or we would have to get a bigger car......or bigger house etc......just funny how a THING seems to be determining in many ppeople's lifes how many kids they will have.....or at least it seems to me like that.....you don't hear too many people say...we are stopping at 2 cause that's all we can handle (physically and psychologically) but so many people to say we can't afford more, or the car commment or house size comment.....juat an observation, not a judgement....don't want to offend anyone at all.....was guilty of that myself

[OurLittleBlessing]

warning- please no one take this comment in a negative way, just an observation I made to my hubby the other day, when we were chatting how many kids we want...... isn't it funny how the size of our car is one of the common comments when talking how many kids.....I hear so many people saying....can't have more or we would have to get a bigger car......or bigger house etc......just funny how a THING seems to be determining in many ppeople's lifes how many kids they will have.....or at least it seems to me like that.....you don't hear too many people say...we are stopping at 2 cause that's all we can handle (physically and psychologically) but so many people to say we can't afford more, or the car commment or house size comment.....juat an observation, not a judgement....don't want to offend anyone at all.....was guilty of that myself

I know what you mean Ellie, we were guilty of that too! And yeah it is a funny thing to say when you stop and think about it lol.

As you probably read in the other thread, we are both loving being parents and are already looking forward to adding to our family. As far as when... maybe in about another 6 months or so as we would like to have our kids fairly close in age. Although like Alina said, you can't really plan it tooooo much! We'll just have to keep practising :p

[stellarella]

Ginger is definitely not our last baby :)
I can't wait to homebirth again. It was that amazing.

Maybe in 4 or 5 years though, when both Oscar and Ginger are at school/about to start school.

[Lyglc]

Well, I think that Chloe will be our last.

we would have to buy a bigger car and have kids share a room if we were to have more :laughing::laughing::laughing: (Ellie - that was just for you!!!!)

Seriously, at the moment we really would find it very difficult financially to have anymore and for many years I have been thinking that 3 kids would be lovely.

I'm not concerned so much about the middle child as our middle child is of the opposite sex to the oldest and youngest so hopefully he'll feel special being our only boy. We will be careful though regarding the middle child syndrome. Although I know of kids in families of any size who have felt left out, so there's no guarantee with the no. of kids that it will solve that issue.

Dh and I have talked about him going for the snip. Although in some ways it seems sad to have the pregnancy/birth part of my life over, I just don't think that I want to go through that all again. I've felt alot more tired and finding it harder to get things done since #3 has arrived (not that I would swap her for a tidy house and organised life).I also had a difficult pregnancy and don't really want to go through all that again.

We have so many reasons to stop now.

Also, dh and I have trouble having time for ourselves and each other.

And if one of us were to die (I know that's a but morbid) then it would be hard for the other person to raise the kids by themselves.
And worse case if we were both to die, I wouldn't want our kids to be seperated and it would be alot for one person to take on more than 3 kids.

If dh goes and has a vasectomy then I'll be okay with that (just a little sad as I love babies!!!).

However, if another one was to come along as a surprise, then we would still count her/him as a blessing and I'm sure we could overcome nearly all the reasons I've given above!