2nd guessing trying to get pregnant with #2
We have a 14 month old boy who is totally our life. We love him more than anything and he’s just a hilarious, amazing creature. However, it’s also been a rough road so far. He’s challenging in many ways and some days I wonder how we will make it through the toddler phase. Because the first year especially was so hard, I had decided I couldn’t handle more than one (ever). But then really recently I got this sudden urge to get pregnant soon. I’m missing pregnancy (really only the 2nd trimester though! The rest was hard for me), having a newborn/young baby to fall asleep on me, and I really want to have one soon so our LO has a sibling close in age.
Here’s the confusing part...when I start to think about labor and delivery (our LO was over ten pounds at birth and I tore pretty badly. It was traumatic for me), the postpartum period emotions and physical pain, the total exhaustion, breastfeeding pain (I had a lot), and all the other tough stuff I think, “No, you are NOT ready!” But I can’t stop thinking about getting pregnant and having another one soon.
Has anyone experienced this and had another anyway? Did you regret it? Any feedback to let me know if this is normal or if you think it means I’m definitely not ready would be appreciated!
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