Has anyone else got broody once their youngest has started school?

Mics_chick

My youngest is 5.5 so he started school last year but I have been feeling broody for a few months now.
Is it normal coz he's "grown up" and not a baby anymore?

We only planned 2 kids and we've got 2 beautiful kids but the feeling I want another is really strong...
I think it's not helped that my 7yo DD said she'd like a baby brother or sister and my DB and SIL had their second just a couple of weeks ago.

I just wondered if anyone else had these feelings?

Spendless

I think it's very common. I've lost count of the mums I've seen becoming pregnant once their youngest goes to nursery/reception.

My 7yo DD also wants another sibling (I think it'd due to how many of her classmates are having baby brothers or sisters). She even went as far as filling out a nursery application for the little sister she wanted me to have, for entrance into nursery in 2016! Complete with child's name and my details and born in 2013 to give me plenty of time to 'get on with it'.

Be prepared for your DD to ask for a puppy instead if you answer no though. :rotfl:

Becles

Same here. My youngest has just started nursery and the urge to have another is very strong.

JC9297

As somebody else said recently on another thread, do you want another child or just another baby? The women that you read about that have loads of kids usually keep having them because they like to have a baby, not really the best reason. I think a lot of people miss having a small child, but actually each phase in your children's life is something to enjoy. Having another baby means you have to focus on the baby and not so much on where the older children are at. Now your children are a bit older there are many new things that the family can do together, but another baby would affect that.

ailuro2

Of course, it's perfectly normal to react with a bit of broodiness.

Remind yourself if you still feel this way in a year, that you can still do something about it.

Write down a list of what you like to do as a family, and ask yourself if you could do that with a baby or small child in tow, if car arrangements, finances etc. would allow it, how would the family dynamics change, would younger child play up as he's not the youngest anymore and so on and on and on....

Just think, in about 8 years from now you could be off to dinner as a couple without needing a babysitter!

If you don't spend another x years worth of nursery fees then you could overpay the mortgage ( see my sig to see why I'd suggest that!;))

Mics_chick

Spendless wrote: »

I think it's very common. I've lost count of the mums I've seen becoming pregnant once their youngest goes to nursery/reception.

My 7yo DD also wants another sibling (I think it'd due to how many of her classmates are having baby brothers or sisters). She even went as far as filling out a nursery application for the little sister she wanted me to have, for entrance into nursery in 2016! Complete with child's name and my details and born in 2013 to give me plenty of time to 'get on with it'.

Be prepared for your DD to ask for a puppy instead if you answer no though. :rotfl:

Wow Spendless your DD sounds just like mine but more so :eek: LOL

alys_fowler

i have 2 children aged almost 10 and 7 i am 24/7 broody but hubby only wants the 2 which are perfect in everyway, i dont think the feeling ever goes away but yes i would love another

jellymid

Yes - very broody, but looking after a friend's twin babies for one day a week soon curbed it! My OH reckons it saved us a fortune, but part of me feels like I never quite got over it.

Mumto5

Very Broody. I knew I would feel like this as I've done it twice before when DS1 was starting school and when DS2 started school. Now DD2 has just started reception and the broodiness is overwhelming:o. I knew this would happen and made DH take it out of my hands.

bylromarha

Not for me OP.

Youngest has just started Reception. I'm rejoicing! So much more time. Completed family growing up. I love it now and don't want to be back in nappies/toddling/weaning/no sleep/learning the naughty step/forming boundaries/seperation anxiety/baby sick everywhere...shall I carry on?

I love my kids now. I loved their baby phase. But that's now passed and I, nor OH, want another.

A friend at school loves having babies in her life. When the baby turns into a toddler, she has another. She is currently pregnant with number 9...

****kara****

number 9 :eek: wow that's just crazy lol. When does she have time to sleep or sit down for 5 minutes?