Pregnancy like getting a tattoo

So I had a very difficult pregnancy with the twins. It was my first pregnancy. The boys are 12months old and I find myself looking at old pregnancy photos and newborn baby pictures and all I can do is say "man I want another baby". It's like getting a tattoo for me, it's painful while you get it but afterwards you forget how bad it was and want another...that's the best analogy I can come up with.

Just curious if anyone else was/is like this...

 

i think we're built like that so that we reproduce more. :laughing: if we really remembered, i don't think anyone would have more than one (or two, if twins were your first).

 

So very true!

 

Well, I don't have a tatoo but your feelings make perfect sense I'm already thinking about what our family would be like with another little addition. Wonderful!

 

Well I haven't gotten to the practical thoughts of what another child would do to our family both with stress and the financial obligation to feeding another baby.

I'm more in that remembering only the good things like feeling the baby move, the joy of a newborn lack of sleep and all and how they just snuggle up in your arms and fall asleep so lovingly. Now that my boys are 1 they just want to move move move. I want my snuggly little sleepers back!

Not sure if I, or DH, is ready for a 3rd baby but I guess time will tell.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way!

 

Yes - thats what got me into this mess. I remembered all the excitement building up to the birth of the girls and the amazing experience of having them. I am not sure what was so amazing about a 40hr induction followed by a post-partum hemorrhage - maybe it was the blood loss. But I to remembered it all through rose colored glasses. Here I am about 38 wks pg with #3 and it has been one emotional roller coaster. Between the excitement, fear and guilt if I weren't pregnant I would have had my self committed by now! But now I just want him out. I am sure that by the time he is sleeping through the night it will all be one happy memory and I'll catch myself thinking of doing it again. Sheesh! Nature is pretty funny like that.

 

Your description of newborn sleep is only feeding the fire of my desire for another My kiddos have only been cuddly as small infants so those are memories I cherish. I mean, I'm not ready now (and DH definitely isn't either...far from it) but I still can't help thinking about it. **sigh**

 

Yep...I took the plunge again and I am so happy I did! I can't wait to see what "just one" is like!

 

That's how I felt until I actually got pregnant. The it was like "holy crap, what was I thinking???". That hasn't gone away yet...

Now I have to add a new name to my tattoo