SoupDragon
Mum of 1, LTWTT #2
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So I'm sat here with my 8 month old baby girl asleep in my lap...I WTT for aaaaages for her...3 years and a few months after we got married.
The pregnancy was lovely, if emotionally a bit scary and physically taxing towards the end. The labour was horrendous and ended in an emcs as she couldn't come out due to her size and position. Then an undiagnosed tongue-tie meant she couldn't latch to breastfeed so I've ended up doing a combination of expressed breastmilk and formula.
My DD is so worth it though. She's lively and cheeky and clever and determined, and I love motherhood a million times more than I expected to, even if it is at times the hardest, scariest, most exhausting thing I've ever done.
I am definitely getting broody again...for a long while after having DD I didn't think I'd be able to go through it all again, but I think I can now, and I want DD to have a sibling. I really miss being pregnant, and I want a do-over of the labour and breastfeeding, in a way. Hopefully a different story this time - a vbac and having the baby checked*properly* for tongue-tie at birth. Regardless of my feelings of wanting to 'try again' at those bits of it, I know we'd regret it if we didn't have another baby...if I think ahead to our life 10 years in the future, there's another child in our family.
But...we have to WTT for ages again. I have to work full time for financial reasons, and we can't afford two full-time childcare places. So we will have to wait until DD is at or near to starting school, or at the absolute earliest, when she starts to receive her 3-year-old childcare funding (assuming the govt doesn't take that away, of course). That means TTC in 2017, or more likely 2018-19. That seems SO far away I'm going to be 34 soon, so my next pregnancy will be what the medics term a 'geriatric pregnancy'. Awesome
Anyone else waiting this long? Wanna wait together?
The pregnancy was lovely, if emotionally a bit scary and physically taxing towards the end. The labour was horrendous and ended in an emcs as she couldn't come out due to her size and position. Then an undiagnosed tongue-tie meant she couldn't latch to breastfeed so I've ended up doing a combination of expressed breastmilk and formula.
My DD is so worth it though. She's lively and cheeky and clever and determined, and I love motherhood a million times more than I expected to, even if it is at times the hardest, scariest, most exhausting thing I've ever done.
I am definitely getting broody again...for a long while after having DD I didn't think I'd be able to go through it all again, but I think I can now, and I want DD to have a sibling. I really miss being pregnant, and I want a do-over of the labour and breastfeeding, in a way. Hopefully a different story this time - a vbac and having the baby checked*properly* for tongue-tie at birth. Regardless of my feelings of wanting to 'try again' at those bits of it, I know we'd regret it if we didn't have another baby...if I think ahead to our life 10 years in the future, there's another child in our family.
But...we have to WTT for ages again. I have to work full time for financial reasons, and we can't afford two full-time childcare places. So we will have to wait until DD is at or near to starting school, or at the absolute earliest, when she starts to receive her 3-year-old childcare funding (assuming the govt doesn't take that away, of course). That means TTC in 2017, or more likely 2018-19. That seems SO far away I'm going to be 34 soon, so my next pregnancy will be what the medics term a 'geriatric pregnancy'. Awesome
Anyone else waiting this long? Wanna wait together?