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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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any mamas thinking of another?
i mean i will now have a 5 bedroom house i better start getting busy.
no really i am excited about thinking about trying to get KU sometime after milo's first birthday-summer
Re: any mamas thinking of another?
i have a 10-8 year age gap with my brothers sometimes it is annoying other times it is no big deal. right now our kids our around the same age so that is fun.
I will believe it when I see it. ;-)
I think there is something wrong with me. I remember bringing Danica home from the hospital and just thinking, "this experience was so awesome. I'd love to have another one rightthissecond!" I had such a different appreciation this time around. The first time around I was 19 and everything was just so weird and awkward. This time around it was like it was OK to be pregnant and I could actually enjoy it all (minus the mad swelling). We're super lucky and she's such an easy baby. She sleeps 11-12 hours a night and I can say that I've never had to get up with her during the night. I know there will be nights like that in the future here and there but I guess her being so good doesn't make me scared for another.
I hate you.
Dude. I brag about this ALL THE TIME. Hunter NEVER slept through the night. Never, ever, ever, NEVER slept through the night. He didn't sleep through the night until he was way over a year and a half old. I'm enjoying ever minute of this.
Emma is a really good sleeper too. Slept through the night since about 3-4 months. She naps good, she sleeps in on the weekends, perfect. This all makes me feel exactly the opposite of you. I feel like her being so good means I am destined to have a devil child if we have another.
Even in the early days of bulging hemis, sore nipples, and sleepless nights I knew Id want another one.... at some point (sorry, tmi?!). I think this summer I finally hit that point where I feel ready to proceed with #2 but Im a little hesitant about the finances of 2 in daycare, so theres an emotional vs logical fight going on in my subconscious at the moment.
However, the subconsious fight is totally trumped by DHs disinterest in #2. Im patiently waiting for him to come around and hoping for an "accident" in the meantime, but the planets are aligned against me. This week alone he had one coworker tell him that having 2 kids is way worse than he ever imagined it would be and we walked into a little girl at daycare today having a total meltdown because her brother was born yesterday and she was not adjusting well to a morning without mommy. Seriously cosmos, could you throw me a bone!!!!
We are thinking about #3. Part of me has a slight case of baby fever now, while the more practical part of me thinks we should shoot for a March baby again, which would delay TTC until next June.
I will say that having them close together is awesome. Charlie and Sam totally play together all the time now. Seriously the best thing I did for Charlie was have Sam.
I should also mention that I was blessed with amazingly great sleepers
DS 3.12.08
DD 7.11.09
DD 8.01.13
Some days I think about trying when she is a year or so because timing-wise it would work out well to potentially move home. It is really hard not having family here to babysit every once and awhile or help out when Claire gets sick and can't go to daycare (which was last Thurs/Fri already ugh). Plus, I hate that they are missing so much.
So.. maybe start trying next June (I can't believe I'm typing this).
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14
Jonathan Dean 4.5.08
Anna Capri 5.4.11
This is one of the major reasons we moved back to where I grew up in Central Pa. I still miss philly every single day but it is soooo nice to have my family here. I call them up to meet me at the park, my mom stayed home with dd when she was sick a couple weeks ago, and the best is that dd gets excited when I tell her we're going to their house for dinner and she sang some broken english version of "happy birthday pa-pa" for a week after my dad's birthday.Its worth it, but I certainly wish they already lived in philly so I didnt have to move to be around them more often ;(
nope. we are just having one for a million reasons, not the least of which is fear of another tour of sobriety.
I will make a confession, thiugh - as much as I stated before being preg, and during, and just after that I would NEVER want another and that this is crazystuff, I can now understand why people would want another. Watching babies grow is really something special, and my cold heart has changed (not enough to have another ...but now I "get it").