Hey everyone, I just thought I'd join the thread.
We have a daughter who turns 1 this Thursday and it looks like we're going to officially start trying for #2 this cycle (currently, AF is in town).
The only thing that concerns me is that my un-married BARELY older than a teenager brother-in-law's girlfriend/fiance/baby mama is preggo with number 2 right now and is due the end of May...
Now for my little rant, when we first got married, we decided to wait 6 months before trying for a baby. We waited 6 months and before I took my last BC pill that month, the little brother's girlfriend announced she was knocked up. They were teenagers at the time and had just graduated from high school. I felt like the wind had been taken right out of my sails and I took a couple more packages of birth control pills before we tried for our first baby... the brother's girlfriend was horribly mad at me when we announced our pregnancy because of the reaction we got -- people were happy for us. To be fair though, we were married, we had done the college thing, we both had jobs in our fields. They were teenagers barely out of high school, no college, no jobs, and they were living with my in-laws.
Being pregnant at the same time was a nightmare. Little brother's girlfriend was mad at me (and is STILL mad at me) because she thought I was trying to upstage her or something. She was mad that we got a good reaction when we told people we were pregnant. She told me she thought I was trying to steal her attention. She constantly tries to compare our children and will make fun of my daughter for not doing things her son is doing. Currently her son is walking and my daughter isn't -- they're 5 months apart mind you, but somehow the fact that he's been walking for a month and she's "still not walking" is something she thinks she can hold over my head and use to prove that I'm a bad mother.
Long story short, the girl is just a complete nightmare to be around and I'd rather not share something as special as bringing a child into this world with her. We live near one another (though our OB's use different hospitals, thankfully...) and will obviously be around each other for birthdays, family gatherings, etc.