How did you know when...

[V8]

to have bubs number 2?? I have been thinking about this constantly and have been wanting to be pregnant since i had DS, but this feeling is now driving me nuts!! I keep telling myself, it's best to wait, but i am really anxious to start TTC and becoming pregnant again. I have set myself up TTC in April 2007, that was because i was going to be a bridesmaid, now my best friend isn't getting married, i have all the time i want to fall pregnant now. The only other thing is we are building a house and i'm not sure how stressful it would be to be pregnant, move house and then sort everything out and have a baby. My mind tells me it's best to wait till we move into our house etc, but i am just sooo darn clucky!

So basically, what made you decide to have bubs no 2 and if they were close together, how did you feel about that?

[Jaz&chloesmum]

Hi ,

I as an only child for 12 yrs till my brother came along then 15 when brother number 2 arrived. I had friends that had brothers and sister that were close in age and they got into mischief together, fought, shared clothes etc etc i decided i wanted to do that.... my girls are 15 months apart we renovated our unit and moved whilst i was pregnant. IT was hard, and it is hard with 2 little ones but i just think that in a couple of years they are going to be best friends :fingerscrossed: . 1 in nappies, bottles etc may as well have 2 LOL:smiliedance:

[Oscar's mum]

Fate actually decided it was time for bub no# 2. We were going to start trying the end of this year as that would have been a good time for us but looks like this bub wanted to be born then not conceived then!;)

[mum2ryan]

I got pregnant again just before Ryans first birthday in December. I'm due in 5 weeks!!:smiliedance:
I had only just stopped breastfeeding, but we knew we wanted another bub. DH and his sister were 20 months apart and grew up together and are still very close. I'm six years older than my sister and at times we find it hard to relate to one another with her still being a teenager and myself married with almost 2 kids.

I wanted my kids to grow up closer in age and hopefully they'll have a similar relationship that DH had with his Sister. :fingerscrossed:

[cheezelkat]

DF desperately wants to TTC right now :eek: but I'm on leaning towards "im not dealing with 2 under 2". Luckily Im still breastfeeding and no periods ter :fingerscrossed:

When it comes down to it, we will probably leave it down to fate.

[kymmy]

I wanted to have a baby soon after I had my girl but I was very unwell and couldn't hold a pregnancy. In the end I was happy with the 3 year gap.

[V8]

DF desperately wants to TTC right now :eek: but I'm on leaning towards "im not dealing with 2 under 2". Luckily Im still breastfeeding and no periods ter :fingerscrossed:

When it comes down to it, we will probably leave it down to fate.

I think that's great to think that too, i guess when it happens it will happen. I am also BF, but just got my first PPAF (and DS is nearly 9 months) so i guess i am 'ready' in that sense to have a baby. Would like to BF DS for 12 months though, so not too far off if we do decide, i wouldn't mind getting pregnant after DS is finished BF. :)

Thanks for the advice ladies.:)

[BlessedWithBlue]

Our boys are 16 months apart. We started ttc #2 when #1 was 4 months old and got pregnant when he was 7 months old. We talked about having another one shortly after the birth of ds#1 and df said it was my call. We wanted them close together and if i thought we could handle it df was happy to go along with the decision i made. #3 was an entirely different story though.

[mich71]

my sil went into labour day after moving house it was extermly stressfull for her but her other half did have house set up when she got home day after giving birth only up side to it she reconds

[chubbybubby]

We ideally wanted a 3 year age gap. I wanted to spend as much time with Harry as I could before having an "intruder"! Even now that we have decided to TTC at the end of the year, I feel a bit guilty, and even sad, that I will lose my one-on-one time with Harry. If we get pregnant at the end of the year, there will be a 3 year and 8 month age gap. Hopefully the third will be about a two - two and half year gap. :)

[mmm7]

DH and I said straight after DS was born when do we have #2.
We are TTC now and if this is the month it will be about a 22 month age gap.
DH and his brother were 5 years apart and get along brilliantly. There is 6 years between me and my oldest sister and we get along ok, but our middle sister (about 30 months older than me) I have never gotten along with. I think it depends on how the parents bring the children up too. I feel that my parents encouraged too much competitiveness between me and my sisters. DH and his brother didn't really go to school together much therefore no competition.:rolleyes: