Broody?

[Beka]

So- we don't seem to have many active TTCers here at present (I know we have a couple of long termers and some with plans to get started soon or on breaks) what about those of us who are just plain broody but can't/won't be trying anytime soon?

Do you find the feeling fluctuates or is it a constant desire?

[Jenny]

I have been "broody" for a long time now but am in no shape way or form going to actually have a baby. Josh would have to get a reversal first off and after having a few baby photo shoots recently, I am comfortable with it.

I just think its my age, where my natural bio clock is going off, all of my close friends are having babies and I want ot fit in...:giggle

[Beka]

I thought you'd be on this list Jenny ;) How is the photography going by the way? I shall have to take a look at your site again.

I am at major broody stage again right now... you'd hear David screaming (and probably running for the hills LOL) at the mention of another pregnancy... we definately have no more room, we *just* starting to see some headway financially, we've just reached that state where travelling is going to get easier but I am also at the horrid brooding state of knowing we said 6 when we started and we still only have 4... I know in my rational side 4 is amazing, 4 is perfect, 4 is 3 more than we thought we could have but maybe that is it? Stopping here is admitting defeat for me? I don't know... making it worse all of my larger family mommy friends are either presently pregnant or actively trying and I am having a tough time dealing- as practical as I know David is being hormones aren't practical are they? :giggle

[Jenny]

Hey Bek, I don't want to take this thread over, but I am doing well. Don't look at my photog site, as I messed it up big time LOL I deleted a bunch of files in my web class (web III mind you, where I should know what I was doing LOL)

[Beka]

LOL - ok, let me know when it's back up and I'll be sure to take a look

[Jbird]

Yep. Waiting until Delaney is 3 or out of diapers.

[Intuition]

My bloody husband is broody. His sister is expecting in September, and his stepsister just had a baby girl a few weeks ago. He is a huge baby lover, and now that Dylan is a toddler, Mike is desperate for a third. I am trying to convince him to have a vasectomy, he is trying to convince me to go for another when James is seven. I could kill him. LOL

[Jenny]

Hey Tegan!! are you on MSN?

[Beka]

LOL Tegan- if only he and David would swap ways of thinking we'd both be happy :lmao

I am a sucker for punishment- I had 2 in diapers for around 2 years... actually though the closer gap was probably my favourite.

[Maggie]

I am. Now is not a good time because we we're having the wedding ceremony we never had (just a quick jeans and tshirt wedding originally) in August. I'll be honest, I want to have a couple drinks at my wedding. LOL

[Jo]

Not I! I have reached the point where crying babies thoroughly annoy me rather than tug at my heart. So it is safe to say that I am finally comfortable with never ever seeing another baby(that is ours) enter this house.

I am having fun enjoying everyone else building their families and being done with ours.

[Danielle]

Not I! I have reached the point where crying babies thoroughly annoy me rather than tug at my heart. So it is safe to say that I am finally comfortable with never ever seeing another baby(that is ours) enter this house.

I am having fun enjoying everyone else building their families and being done with ours.

Ditt-O!!!!

[Erika]

Not really.

But....

we are back on the TTC road LOL Why, you may ask? Logically, it makes sense to have our second baby now. I don't want to go back to a career job only to take maternity leave a year or 2 down the line. And we will probably stop at 2. Or at least, leave baby nr 3 for a few years.

I do want this baby but I don't have the mad urge that I did with Sasha. Which is deinfately nicer as it could take me a while to get pregnant.

[kcmomma]

I'd have another in a heart beat...but DH is fixed so it would take a miracle/act of God for it to happen.

[Faith]

I think I will always be broody for another baby. I just can't imagine myself NEVER having another baby...even though it probably WILL NOT happen. :(

[Beka]

I think I will always be broody for another baby. I just can't imagine myself NEVER having another baby...even though it probably WILL NOT happen. :(

:squeeze Faith. Have you looked at any further treatments or is it not an experience you want to go through? I know I have read recently about bloodwork you'd had done, I did wonder but didn't get around to asking (sorry)

[Kate]

I think we all know I belong on this list...

[Kristen]

I'm not...I feel like Jo and Danielle! LOL I truly, truly have no desire for another baby, and I especially do not want to have to be pregnant again.

I'm very happy to be moving on to a baby-free stage of life here...I feel like whole new vistas are opening up to me!

[freebiemom]

We've talked about having a fifth and there are times I so want another and then there are times, like now, that I feel four are enough and our family is complete.

But . . . I am three days late so the decision may have been made for us. I will let you all know when I find out myself.

[Faith]

I've been wanting to post about what's going on with me but just haven't had a chance yet.....hopefully I will get around to it soon. :)

[Beka]

Faith I'll look forwards to an update when you get the chance to share.

[Jenny]

me too faith :hugs

[SarahJ]

Hmmm, I'm on the fence.
We haven't been using any form of contraception since Marcus was born 10 months ago, but I only got AF back last month.
I accept he is my miracle child, and I'm happy with my little family, but can't help but think "what if..."
I don't want to do anything permanent like a vasectomy just yet, I do fluctuate back and forth wondering whether there is meant to be another little baby for us?
I think I'll leave it in someone's elses hands for now, and revisit the issue if I'm not pregnant in a couple of years. I didn't really see myself having children in my 30's, as dh and I got together and had Tara relatively young, I like the idea of a bit of freedom as a couple as we get into our 40's.

So you can put me on the list of "not trying, but not preventing" lol.

[Mary]

I am not broody; I just wish I could keep Eliza the age she is for a while longer. :) I have no desire to go through pregnancy and the newborn stage again, but I'd like to keep the baby I have right now!

[Tracy]

I've been broody lately. Rich and I haven't really decided if we are done.
When we took Kaela's crib down and put her in the toddler bed, I asked him what he wanted me to do with the crib. He said "sell it or get rid of it...what ever" So I asked him if we are done with it. His answer?? "For now" Well DUH!!! :shakehead Of course we are done with it for now since Kaela isn't using it.
We really need to sit down and figure it out. I'm tired of the changing table sitting in Kaela's room and the crib in pieces in my hallway!

[Heather]

I've actually gotten a Lot better with this recently. Of course, Delilah isn't even 6 months old, but even right after she was born I was wanting another. Good thing I had the tubal lol because she was a HUUUUGE surprise(I was going in last Aug. to talk surgery and found out I was pregnant the end of June). I had really felt "done" after Virgie was born, but there was always that little voice in the back of my head.

Now, the "I need another baby" attack doesn't strike unless I read birth stories or see new babies. Beyond that, I am sooooo done with the baby stage and my pregnancies have.. well.. sucked booty.. and I have zero desire to go through all of it again. I feel incredibly(INCREDIBLY) lucky to have the children that I have and I feel just as lucky to have not had trouble in conceiving after talking with my doc this last time around after my c-section. I'm truly grateful for the children that I have, and I'm happy that I was able to have all of them.

But I don't want anymore lol.

Adoption, however, is something I've thought about a lot. We're in no way able to do something like that, but I haven't closed the door on it for maybe considering it in the future when we'd be more capable.

There will be no rugrats popped from these loins ever again though.

[Jejune]

I don't feel broody, per se, but I've been missing having a baby around the house. However, my period was three days late this month, and I flipped out. I've had low levels of nausea all day for a few weeks now, but they started just before my period didn't arrive. I was dead certain I was pregnant, and I was not happy. I took a test on the third day, and when it was negative (I truly hadn't believed it would be) I felt pure, unadulterated happiness. And of course, having taken a test, my period arrived.

So I'm missing the babies, but there's no part of me that wants to actually have another baby right now. Maybe in the future, but really, really not now. We're starting to talk vasectomy, actually. The thought being that if we can afford to have it reversed to try for another one, we're likely in a decent financial position. If we can't afford that, then we really shouldn't try for another kid anyway.