[MamaAnna]

I'm already thinking about baby number 5 and hoping that we can avoid MA again. I know it'd be best to wait awhile so I have more time to mend and recovery my sanity, but at the same time part of me is hoping to have another before my PCOS has a chance to take over again. Even though MA helped in the past it feels like because it is progressive that maybe it'll come back badly enough that this time we won't be so fortunate. Especially since DH won't do an SA or anything so the help we could get is very limited.

[Jacobbbsmommy]

wanting babies is not crazy! if you can handle that many that is lol

[SavaAngel]

I don't think you are crazy per say. I think you are a little crazy wanting another ALREADY! LOL!

My DH doesn't want to avoid at all since it too us over 2 years to get pregnant this time, but I feel like I need at least 6 months.

[MamaAnna]

I don't want the next like now now, but I can't help thinking about how long it took us to get DD2 and how lucky we were to get DD3 so easily. It's like if we wait and then it doesn't just happen I'll be wondering what if we hadn't waited, but if we don't wait and it does happen I'll wonder what if we'd waited. My brain hurts.

[SavaAngel]

I get that, and I feel that way too. My other fear is taking care of one "baby" still with a new infant at home too. Part of the reason I am hoping to make it at least 6 months before we TTC again.

[MountainMomma]

I don't think you are crazy at all. When I had DS we had been NTNP for over 2 years. I really didn't think there was a problem..... just assumed that timing really sucked, but I started thinking about the next one right away. In fact, I think if either of us is crazy it would be me. DS wasn't even 48 hours done when my ex and I DTD for the first time! lol

I hope that you are pleasantly surprised when you do decide it is time for #5.

[MamaAnna]

Wow, I won't even let DH near me. You must've been feeling pretty good!

[MountainMomma]

After the first it was nearly 7 months! lol But yeah..... I was feeling pretty good after #2. Which is weird in one way because he was so much bigger than my daughter. She was only 6lb4oz. Will was 7lb11oz. The difference was that with Sierra they induced my labor, rushed it along and didn't give my body time to do it's own thing. With Will I labored at home for 4 days (granted, I didn't know I was in labor!) and then my nurses allowed me to labor at my own pace at the hospital too. 24 hours and 40 minutes more at the hospital gave my body time to do the things that it needed to do so that recovery was a breeze!

[~InHisHands~]

Yep, you're crazy! You know I'm j/king, Anna! I completely understand & agree... go for it!

[MamaAnna]

JM ate my post!

Christina ~ I'm kind of hoping that since we're EBF that it'll hold things off so we get a break and maybe still get a boost when we stop. Who knows?

Stephanie ~ I definitely agree that laboring on your own makes for a much easier recovery. Sarah was my first unassisted labor since my oldest and I feel really great aside from a sore hip. DH will probably have to wait until I can see a chiropractor, but I guess that'll be incentive for him to let me go.

[SavaAngel]

I hope it works out for you. I got my first AF mere days after my PP bleeding stopped with AJ and then they came approx 30ish days like clockwork. I was EBF at that point too! I didn't even pump till after I got my first AF.

[wishfulgal]

I don't think you are crazy at all!!! I was ready for another baby almost as soon as my son was born. We never prevented after his birth, but I didn't get AF until 10 months PP b/c of BFing so we didn't really have a chance until then.

[MamaAnna]

Good to know I'm not a total nut. We've talked about having 5 for so long now that I think it'd be hard if my body and DH's stubbornness stopped us at four. I'm pretty sure he would be open to another immediate pregnancy, but I really need a physical and mental break. I just don't want it to kill our chances.

[Misty_X]

I'm just lurking, but I don't think you are crazy at all. I have endo amongst other issues and we have always known we were on borrowed time so we started TTC very quickly after our girls. Angelica was about 9 months old when we found out we were having Natasha. Things took longer this time but we started TTC again as soon as my fertility returned. Now I am halfway through my pregnancy we've had a talk about the future and decided to NTNP from the word go. We would ideally like a fourth child but we have no way of knowing if we will be blessed quickly or if it will be a long journey as we have experienced both.

So I totally understand where you are coming from - you're not crazy!