Anyone else sure this is her last baby? - Page 2

[merrick]

This will most likely be our last. I'd like to have at least one more, but dh doesn't, and I don't think I can go through another pregnancy. This one was really rough at first. I'm not ruling out adoption or fostering in the long distance future though. But for now, two is fine, and we'll have our boy and our girl.

[luckylady]

YES!!! Especially after today with my DD. *sigh* Really I just know myself and 2 is gonna be pushing it - my patience level that is.

[flowmom]

This is our second and last baby. I am gettin' on in age (38 in May), I like the idea of the kids and parents being equally balanced, and I don't have unlimited resources for parenting (emotional and financial) and neither does Mother Earth. I do feel a bit sad about it and kinda envy mothers in bigger families who can really evolve with each new baby. But I also like the idea of seeing my kids grow up and not feeling like I'm constantly "regressing" back to earlier stages. My mom had her last baby when I was 17 years old - it was pretty wild for the whole family and challenging in many ways. I think that she ultimately devoted more years to intensive parenting that she would have liked to. Kudos to big family mamas though!

[Nanners]

I think part of my sadness stems from the fact that this was a COMPLETELY unplanned pregnancy. We weren't planning on another till ds was at least 3 or 4. He won't even be quite 2 yet! I just expected to have this 2nd pg ahead of me a while longer, I guess.

[vintagegreen]

This is our second and last child. For many of the same reasons already stated, a family of 4 just seems to be the right fit for us, we're not well off financially, and honestly I don't know if I could go through it all again.

I don't love being pregnant, although I do treasure certain things like feeling the baby move around.

We're both in agreement that this is it for us, but I still do get saddened over it some days.

[newmainer]

This is about 95% our last... some days 100% our last!! I have always wanted 3, but now that i have one and am facing another on the way, i honestly wonder if i could handle 3. When i think about doing the whole pregnancy and intense toddler years for a 3rd time? whoa. But then i think about growing up with just me and my sister and how desperately i wished we had more siblings, or even cousins our age. Our dc's will most likely not have any cousins. That makes me so sad. Family is so important...

That being said, dh is going to get a vasectomy, but he wants to wait at least 3 years. We have talked about adopting a 3rd, as impact on the Earth is very important to us. But then, since our siblings won't have kids and neither did his aunt and uncle, we kinda feel like if we ever decide to have a 3rd, we'd just take one of their slots

i dunno. too much to think about right now!

[RImomma]

This will be our last baby. Two boys will be good for us.

[UCmamaToMany]

Possibly it is the last but would really like a couple more after this one. Depends on if I can convince DH, he's still on the fence.

[~*max*~]

This is our 4th baby/5th child (we are aso raising my nephew) and I am 36, so I am 99.9% sure this is our last. Mainly bc I do not feel my body can handle another pregnancy. With each pregnancy, especially this & the last, it has gotten more difficult for me physically - migraines, vomitting, varicose veins, bladder problems, overall discomfort & exhaustion. My problem is, I'm not comfortable w/any unnatural/hormonal forms of birth control and a tubal is pretty scary to me too. So, that leaves NFP & condoms. We will need to be especially careful, bc I get pregnant very easily.