[Admin-pattyandthemoos]

Every so often I get a little nervous about having another. Four kids is hard to manage but five kinda scares me. I am kind of glad that it has taken us a while in a way because all the kids are out of diapers and there will be a decent amount of space between baby and the rest of the kids.

[AmandaHugNKiss]

Yup, for sure. SOmetimes my brain takes over and I think 'What are you doing, WHY do you want to start again?!' here's gonna be a huge gap between my first two an any possible baby...

But if I look down at my stomach and imagine I'm pregnant - well, there's no greater feeling than that of a life growing within - everything else will work itself out; it always does.

[tchelle]

Absolutely. I had a very convincing evap 2 cycles ago. From the time I took that one to when I took another and got a BFN (and realized the first was just and evap), I was flip flopping back & forth between excited and scared to death.

Oh yes. I am at times petrified and wondering what the heck we are thinking! Seven. Seven kids. Holy cow! Wow, it sounds like a lot, and I wonder if I can actually manage SEVEN kids. EEK!

This time, too, becuse my last pregnancy went along fine, until the last week, when my bp went UP. I was put on bedrest and had antenatal nurses come into my home, etc, and a week later they induced because I was only getting worse. He was unexpectedly born feet first (we literally found out at 10cm dialated when my water broke, until then we assumed he was head down). I am absolutely terrified of c/sections, and thank the lucky stars above that it turned out the way it did and I was able to birth him vaginally, because that could have so easily been a c/s if my water broke any sooner, or if the doctors discovered he wasn't head down, or any number of things. It was still a very scary experience, and the baby needed resucitation from the short time his cord was compressed.

THEN instead of getting better, my bp got worse. I was in the hospital for 8 days after he was born, and went home on blood pressure meds. Plus, the baby was a preemie and had huge problems with feeding, jaundice, NOT GROWING (didn't even get back to his birth weight until he was 3 weeks old, then he stayed there for a while, so I had a 7.5 pound one month old) and we were going to the doctors 2 or 3 times EVERY WEEK, plus they sent us to the hospital twice for this, had us waking him (he couldn't stay awake..)..

Let's just say it was NOT fun. i have talked to my dr and they said that it may or may not happen again, but if it does they will just induce early again, which kind of scares me becasue of what the baby went through. And the bp thing was incredibly scary.. and this was just over 4 months ago, so it's pretty fresh in my mind! lol

I just need to have faith that it will all work out...

[LadyFlyAway]

Sometimes I get a little scared, and other times, I don't. But, that's normal. With all of my pregnancies I was scared at times...but, it all worked out..and that's what I try to focus on.

[Arya]

I am not scared yet, but hey, I'm not even pregnant yet! I'm pretty sure I'll be scared out of my mind after the initial excitement passes. I'll probably worry my head off!

[Blue Eyes 409]

I am a little worried about how Paige will act. She is my baby and if I hold another baby she gets upset so I am worried about how she will take it. When I had Paige it was like I was a 1st time Mom because Jessie was 10 and there were so many things that I had forgot. I know my life will be busier with a new baby then it is now But I am sure that I will be fine and so happy having 2 kids here ALL the time. Paige gets so bored when her sister spends the summer with her Dad. I will be so excited to add a member to the family.

[Coley]

I have wanted to get pregnant for so long that I've predicted that I will thoroughly enjoy every moment up until about 7-8 months. That's about the time that it will dawn on me that this giant thing has to come out of me and I will tell DH that I've changed my mind and don't want to do this anymore. He has preemptively told me "Tough! It's too late!" LOL!!

[alicenwonderland]

It's funny. I only get nervous when I think I might actually ahve a chance at being pregnant lol.

[Admin-pattyandthemoos]

Originally Posted by morebluethanpink

Oh yes. I am at times petrified and wondering what the heck we are thinking! Seven. Seven kids. Holy cow! Wow, it sounds like a lot, and I wonder if I can actually manage SEVEN kids. EEK!

This time, too, becuse my last pregnancy went along fine, until the last week, when my bp went UP. I was put on bedrest and had antenatal nurses come into my home, etc, and a week later they induced because I was only getting worse. He was unexpectedly born feet first (we literally found out at 10cm dialated when my water broke, until then we assumed he was head down). I am absolutely terrified of c/sections, and thank the lucky stars above that it turned out the way it did and I was able to birth him vaginally, because that could have so easily been a c/s if my water broke any sooner, or if the doctors discovered he wasn't head down, or any number of things. It was still a very scary experience, and the baby needed resucitation from the short time his cord was compressed.

THEN instead of getting better, my bp got worse. I was in the hospital for 8 days after he was born, and went home on blood pressure meds. Plus, the baby was a preemie and had huge problems with feeding, jaundice, NOT GROWING (didn't even get back to his birth weight until he was 3 weeks old, then he stayed there for a while, so I had a 7.5 pound one month old) and we were going to the doctors 2 or 3 times EVERY WEEK, plus they sent us to the hospital twice for this, had us waking him (he couldn't stay awake..)..

Let's just say it was NOT fun. i have talked to my dr and they said that it may or may not happen again, but if it does they will just induce early again, which kind of scares me becasue of what the baby went through. And the bp thing was incredibly scary.. and this was just over 4 months ago, so it's pretty fresh in my mind! lol

I just need to have faith that it will all work out...

I can relate. Brandon had failure to thrive as a baby and we had a lot of feeding issues as well. He is still a pretty little guy. Lyndsey was born early too but not as early. If I get pregnant again I want to make it to at least 37 weeks.

Originally Posted by Coley

I have wanted to get pregnant for so long that I've predicted that I will thoroughly enjoy every moment up until about 7-8 months. That's about the time that it will dawn on me that this giant thing has to come out of me and I will tell DH that I've changed my mind and don't want to do this anymore. He has preemptively told me "Tough! It's too late!" LOL!!

I think you will be fine. At 7-8 months the get this baby out of me feeling starts happening with a lot of gals. LOL. That is when everything starts getting exciting.

When you get pregnant I am going to come track you down at 8 months and see how you are feeling.

[dapgal]

I am a little nervous about going from 1 to 2 just because now I am the primary caregiver for Collin. DH helps but basically I do most of it. And we never get house work done now as it is I wonder how much worse it will be with 2. But I want Collin to have a sibling more than I am nervous and I know that I will love that feeling of a baby moving inside of me.

Collin was a sleepy eater too and lost over a pound from birth weight. He took a long time to gain it back to, I think it wasn't until he was a month old before he was a little over birth weight. He is still a skinny guy but is really starting to eat a little better than before. It was a little worrisome at times but nothing that I am scared we won't be able to get through again. And every baby is different so I may not have that problem again.

[Tammyms]

We are TTC our first, so really, I'm petrified! I have IBS so I worry about the pregnancy and the labour, as it is I have constant pains in my side that range anywhere from a dull pain to a stabbing pain that will drop me to my knees and make me scream. I wonder if it will get worse having a baby inside me, and of course, delivering!!!

Then I worry I won't be a good mom and sometimes talk myself out of thinking I even deserve a baby. We got a puppy a few months ago and that was an eye opener! Then all the other questions, how will I know what to do? Will I be good? Do I have the patience? Will he/she be healthy? Will he/she be good and choose the right paths in life? I could sit here for hours and list all my questions...

But, in the end, my one question will it all be worth it makes all those nervous questions and fears not matter

[Kris2you]

I'm definitely a little freaked out. It's been the three of us for so long, I wonder how it's possible to love another as much as Joey (I know I will but you guys know what I mean). I also feel guilty. It's weird lol.

[Tammyms]

Originally Posted by Kris2you

I'm definitely a little freaked out. It's been the three of us for so long, I wonder how it's possible to love another as much as Joey (I know I will but you guys know what I mean). I also feel guilty. It's weird lol.

I kind of think sometimes that's why I only really want one... I mean if future DH didn't have 3 already, I'm sure once I had one I'd want two, but I'd worry about myself having a favourite!

The only part that scares me is the actual pregnancy. Not the giving birth, or raising the baby. But just being aware of all the things that can go wrong. I've been there, I've done that, and it's the most horrible feeling in the world to think that in 9 months you're going to be holding a baby, and then a 10 minute U/S destroys everything......now THAT scares the crap out of me

[AmandaHugNKiss]

Originally Posted by Kris2you

I'm definitely a little freaked out. It's been the three of us for so long, I wonder how it's possible to love another as much as Joey (I know I will but you guys know what I mean). I also feel guilty. It's weird lol.

I know exactly what you mean - when I was pregnant with ds, I used to lay down with dd to nap and would cry because I felt such overwhelming love for her that I couldn't imagine possibly having 'enough love' for two.

Needless to say, there was enough

You'll have enough too *hugs*

[Coley]

Originally Posted by pattyandthemoos

When you get pregnant I am going to come track you down at 8 months and see how you are feeling.

You Better!!!

[Effervescence]

Sometimes I get a little nervous, wondering if we really do want kids so close in age. I think I'm having problems picturing Jonah ten months from now, as a toddler rather than a baby, and then I think about all of the wonderful times Jonah and I have when it's just the two of us- he's my little buddy. He is with me every second of every day. But then I remember that he's almost one year, and he's already becoming SO independent from me, and taking care of him plus another baby wouldn't be what I'm thinking. I also start to think about what great times he will have with his sibling because (hopefully) they'll only be two years apart. We actually wanted them closer, but we're still trying. That's out of our hands. Everytime I get nervous, I just think about all of the great reasons that DH and I decided to have a big family with siblings close in age. And then all the reasons that I'm scared about it, which really isn't any. Then I get upset that it's taken so long to concieve our second (Jonah just sort of came into being- there were no charts, no thermometers, no trying.... we had been told that it's a slim chance that we could conceive together. Now I'm wondering if Jonah was just that slim chance and we're not meant to have any more )