OK to try and cure my broodiness I've been reminding myself of all the bad things about pregnancy and a newborn. So far I've got

1) sickness for pretty much the whole time
2) endless worry from bleeding, baby not moving, etc
3) SPD
4) Really bad fluid retention so everything was really swollen
5) Heartburn
6) A 30 hour labour and c-section
7) A baby that slept three hours in 24 if I was lucky
8 - A baby that was permanently attached to me and fed every couple of hours


So far its not working though. What other awful things can you think of?

the rib kicks!
x

farting
constipation
mood swings/crying/rowing with people - maybe that was just me ;-)
not being able to eat certain things
not being able to have a drink at weddings/parties etc
pins and needles/cramps in legs
forgetting things erm like your 20 week scan lol & crying for hrs after!
waking in the night to pee 14 times
discharge
weeing yourself slightly, drip drip lol
not being able to nap as you have a toddler
changing toddlers nappy when they kick and you have a bump
trying to carry a screaming toddler with a bump
the smell of toddlers fish fingers or brocolli cooking when you feel sick
feeling incredibly guilty that you have ruined your toddlers life by getting pregnant & choosing to be restricted for a good few months in things you can do.


Newborn, have to say Joshua is pretty good so I havent been reminded of too many horrors! Few poo incidents mind you!

This post has been quite good for me as I was NEARLY getting broody. If you remember I friggin hated being pg, apart from a few weeks nearer the end... and then I became a moan again!

Lol okummm worse for me was not being able to do anything for or with tyler and watching him get closer and closer to oh and not be so interested in boring mummy.
The heart burn, sickness, tiredness peeing all night.umm sleepless nights the hectic life, (it is manic at first) trying not to snap at your toddler because he dared to make a sound while baby was sleeping, ummm you get even less time to yourself... Ummm despite all.that I'd have another

Thanks Jade - not sure that's helpful

It has reminded me how much I hated pregnancy and I swore I would never do it again

Mine was just heartburn, getting up in the night constantly for a wee, hubby still wanting sex me not feeling like it, thats it. It's only for 9 months of ur life I am not much help have another lol

I didn't mind pregnancy or newborn stage. I find it harder now just having two. I love them so much but I do struggle. Just getting out the house is harder when you have two and cut off with what we can do.

Soft play is good but with two you need to go somewhere where oldest is ok to be alone while you sit with newborn, I've been to some where Immi is too small to get around herself and needs me to come in and its a nightmare with Joshua as well. Swimming you can only go with another person as its difficult looking after two that can't swim - also a lot of pools require child under 3 or 5 to be with adult so not allowed to take two under a certain age. Just going shopping is a lot harder cause without double buggy (which are pretty much all massive lol) you'll have a toddler running around and be trying to push pushchair.

Also remember terrible twos are coming too. Imogen used to be an angel and i thought this is easy i can have another fine. Hmmm not so easy when Joshua is crying for food/attention and i'm trying to feed him and Imogen is throwing a tantrum or climbing in the cupboards or drawing on the walls etc


Just things to think about. I love my children but I'm not going to lie and say it's easy. Sometimes I do wonder if a bigger age gap would have been better.

i hate to say this chick, but i have NO downsides to pregnancy...i'm not up weeing all the time(can go hours without going lol) i was only sick a few weeks...no really bad preggy problems and decent labours

newborn...the constant screaming in the day was my only downside, but that changed once he went onto soya milk



not much help am i!?!

kenty wrote:

i hate to say this chick, but i have NO downsides to pregnancy...i'm not up weeing all the time(can go hours without going lol) i was only sick a few weeks...no really bad preggy problems and decent labours

newborn...the constant screaming in the day was my only downside, but that changed once he went onto soya milk



not much help am i!?!

LOL not really.

Shell that's part of the reason we're looking at a bigger age gap. That and financial reasons. Seems to have passed a bit for the time being. Looked in a mirror, saw how fat I was and realised I need to lose about 5 stone before I get pregnant again so that's going to take some time

Argh this post is what is going through my head right now

- SPD
- Heartburn
- Wanting to eat everything and putting on loads of weight
- Not being able to drink
- Becoming a hermit
- Not wanting sex
- The expense
- The awful labour
- A baby who wouldnt sleep night or day until he was 12 weeks old
- The awful newborn cry (argh i still hear it in my nightmares!!)
- Up and down in the night
- Lack of money
- Unable to get out anyway cos I had a baby permanantly attached to my boob
- VConstant worrying all the time
- Post pregnancy blues

Apart from that I still want another! x

let me see...


both my down sides of preg

heartburnn
spd
varicos veins
flubitus
feeling horrid for paige as i was house bound n sat down all day towards the end of preg with trent
sickness
no sleep
lots of wee
not waning food
teeth going brittle
no drinky poos
no medium cooked steak

new borns..

night feeds
clinyness
sick
going out to a shopping centre whoch would norm take 2-3 hours but ur out the whole day due to nappy changes n feeds..