When for baby #2?

Question

When did you know you were ready to have another baby after a C-section? My daughter just turned 2 this month and my husband had the baby talk with me today. I’m so scared. I love my daughter with every single cell in my body. When I look at her my stomach muscles clench from it. She is literally the most amazing thing to ever happen to me. 
I had in 2020 after years of infertility. My pregnancy was AMAZING  and completely textbook but her birth was not. The recovery was isolating and awful. I feel like I have PTSD from all of it. No one was around to help and I got a ton of “if you need help just ask!” but no one ever came. I also lost my older brother suddenly and traumatically when I was 21 weeks pregnant. 
The year the was the best a of life with the birth of my daughter was LITERALLY at the same time the most TRAUMATIC and earth-shatteringly WORST year of my entire life. 
But I don’t want it to keep me from having anymore children. 🙁 My husband says that if I waited any longer at 35 I’m only going to make everything harder on myself. 😞 I know you’re never truly ready for another one but I don’t know what to do.

Answer

I didn’t have a c-section, but I did experience a very similar thing..I was 14 weeks pregnant when my husbands cousin was murdered. It shattered the both of us.. our wedding was a week after his funeral and he was supposed to be the best man. I had my son and my labor and postpartum was awful. I was hemorrhaging and they couldn’t stop the bleeding. I had to have two transfusions and a ton of stitches. My dad didn’t come to see me, until my son was almost 3 wells old. I was basically bed ridden..it was so hard. I lost 5 more family members within the following 8 months after he was born. 
For the past two years, I told myself that I couldn’t have another. That I wasn’t going to be able to handle it, but then I looked back and I saw how I made it through. That if I was strong enough then, I’m strong enough now if not stronger. I know I want my son to have siblings. I know I want them to be close. I want to feel the euphoria again seeing and meeting my child for the first time. Feeling that love…my husband and I decided that the time was now and we are now on our second cycle trying for our second. 
I wish you peace, and pray that whatever choice you make is the right one for you and your mentality 💛

Answer

My son just turned 2 on the 16th and I am having my 2nd baby this Monday coming. So it’s pretty much 24 months between my csections. I will also be 38 next month so I am older and wanted to have another and knew it had to be sooner than later. This will be our last also.

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I got pregnant 5 months post a C-section after our twins! Miscarried got preyagain 9 months PP and gave birth via Vbac 15 months pp

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