i didn't know i felt this way...

[natty529]

i have been lurking on this board a little bit lately... i have been feeling lilke i would like another child. i figured if we start ttc in a few months it would still be quite a long while before the new babe arrived, but close enough to be excited about i guess.
today i saw a friend of mine and she told me she is pregnant. of course i am happy for her, but when she told me, i felt sad and kind of wanted to cry! jealous i guess this was a surprise to me! i had no idea i had such strong feelings about when we would have another child. other friends have turned up pregnant recently too, but thiis is the first time i have felt like this.
i feel like i want to ttc right away now...mature of me, i know!

[kismetbaby]

Hugs mama, I know just what you mean. I recently had a friend with a babe the same age as mine tell me she was preggo with #2. Even though I know realistically I'd rather wait another 6 months to start TTC, I felt so, so jealous and just wanted to go cry about it-- I wasn't expecting to feel that way. So, I too have been lurking around here and getting some serious TTC cravings. . .

My DH doesn't get it (he wants more kids mind you, but he doesn't get the obsessing about it). Nice to know that other mamas do!

[Eliza12]

I feel this way about TTC my first! I always felt ambivalent about having a baby (or so I thought), and now I have a hard time... almost feel like a failure... when I hear about friends, family, even celebrities getting pregnant!

[Sourire]

I felt this way when I found out my SIL was pregnant, even though I knew I wasn't going to start TTC for at least a year.

[natty529]

i think it is also particularly difficult because dh and i are not quite on the same page about it yet. he does want more children but wants to wait until our situation is more ideal. after ds was born we fell on some really hard times and are just coming out of it. i have just started working again and things are on the up-swing i think. he is just so afraid of thngs being bad again, i sort of don't know how to help him see that things would be different the second time around... in the mean time what do i do with all these feelings?