Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[lindz8504]

Awww! Yea definitely not helping MC! Hubby already thinks I'm crazy for thinking about having my tubes undone! Shhh... dont tell anyone though.

 

[savannahm0m]

Awww! Yea definitely not helping MC! Hubby already thinks I'm crazy for thinking about having my tubes undone! Shhh... dont tell anyone though.

Baby fever here too. DH and I have a 9yo, and thought we were done. Then oops, we got pregnant, got excited, but miscarried. Now we are actually planning on having another. Sleepless nights and dirty diapers... does that make me crazy? Maybe so, but there's a lot of awesome that goes with it!

 

[BullChick]

 

[BullChick]

Remember that feeling when you hold your new baby for the first time.
The smell of their breath as they lay on your shoulder sleeping. Their tiny body fitting almost in the palm of your hand. The indescribable love that just overwhelms you as you look at your miracle. Watching them grow. Watching them learn. That first smile. The first laugh. "Mommy"

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Watching them take their first Harley ride.

 

[mortie]

No baby fever here. I am immune to your cute pictures and talk of holding newborns.

Stick a fork in me.

 

[lazy gardener]

Then, before you know it... they're teen agers!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Yes! I have two. And soon to become the shortest person in the house.

 

[lindz8504]

Lol...I already have 4... but still.....
My oldest is 8 and the youngest will be 3 in May. I am definitely missing the baby stage! I think I could change diapers forever if they stayed little!

 

[mortie]

For me, part of it was it being time to move on from caring for babies and turning my focus to raising my young men/lady. If I am constantly bringing in new babies, I won't be able to put the kind of care and attention I want to guiding my older ones into the whole tween/teen stage and then into young adulthood. Now I am NOT a helicopter parent whatsoever but their needs are different and I like that I can be really focused on what is going on with them. Just because they don't need me to spoon feed them strained peas anymore doesn't mean that I don't need to mother them, it's just a different way. That's just MY take and doesn't mean any other take is wrong or right, it's a deeply personal decision. I know that I COULD do it and many people DO do it, but for me, I like that my whole parenting paradigm has shifted over and I'm not having to constantly switch back and forth. Again, that's just me and everyone is different. No one is wrong for wanting to have another baby, these is just why I don't

Also, my last pregnancy was extremely traumatic and I have no desire whatsoever to ever go through that again.

I went through a little spot of "baby fever" when my youngest was 2-3 when typically we would have been having another one if we were to follow our previous pattern but I in my rational mind I knew that we were doing the right thing by moving on. It's hard to make the shift from "mom of little kids" to "mom of bigger kids" because a lot of it is how you see yourself...but that was very short lived and now my youngest is almost 8 (they're 7.9. and 11) and I'm totally fine.

All of our snow is pretty much gone. The yard is very, VERY squishy. And muddy. And gross. The chicken run is astonishingly dry. I'm alitlte shocked about that. I expected it to be a filthy mud hole. File that under pleasant surprises.

Got a new mattress today. We went to an all latex one. It's nice, I hope sleeps as good as it feels when I laid down on it for a little while this afternoon.

I need to put more straw in the boxes. The favorite one has gotten a little thin and someone's egg cracked when they laid it. I hate it when eggs get wasted!

Later taters!