I just found out I'm pregnant again!
Which normally would be amazing news!
However I have a 6 month old baby and a 3 year old.
I'm freaking out a bit about my youngest two being so close!
Also have guilt that my sister has been trying for years and no success and this baby is a complete surprise for us! Literally the one time we've had unprotected sex since bubba was born and I'm pregnant... My last two took the best part of 15 months to fall.
I'm terrified - abortion is not an option.
I think I just need reassuring that in strong enough to do this!
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Of course you can do this. My mum did exactly those gaps, with my sisters and I and she had to do it with old fashioned cloth nappies, no daycare and no family for support. She was 23 and my dad worked shift work.
She didn't have a car and couldn't drive do she used to have to walk to the shops to get food etc with the three of us.
Thankyou!
I'm currently a stay at home mum studying a degree so Im feeling overwhelmed at the moment.
Hubby works most days and shift work, and my children aren't in any daycare so it's usually just me with them all day.
My sister had Irish triplets. 3 under 1 year old (singleton then twins 2 months before the firsts, first birthday. They were 2 months early).
She went on to have two more kids, so it's certainly doable.
Enlist all the help you can get.
Realise that it will most definitely be chaos, and that the cleaning will not be a high priority.
Your youngest will be around 15 months old, so will have some independence and be able to play on their own.
If you have the 6 month old in your room, I would put them in their own room so they get used to it before Bub arrives.
Car seats.. Does your car fit 3?
If not, start looking now for better options.
Ohh mumma! My two are 53 weeks apart!! Tried for 2 years with first one, fell pregnant first time with second and we now have a third. They are 5,4 and 2. You can so do this! Expect the first year to be hard, they are bff now.
Oh and I will add that we get no family help. My house is a mess but we are all safe healthy and happy. It's chaos but I wouldn't change it.
I have 4 kids and the 4th I had to have a c section for because she was breech. I then found out I was pregnant when she was like 4 months which was a complete surprise as I have PCOS and had to take fertility drugs to get pregnant. They were going to be 12m and 3 weeks apart. I was so freaked out as my kids at the time were 8, 7, 3 and 4 months and I felt done. I did think of termination but their was no way I could go ahead with it. I ended up with depression as my husband started working away a week after I found out. I was worried about my csection scar also as your ment to wait a yr. after my dating scan and I saw my baby at 8 weeks I started getting my happy about being pregnant and could vision having 5 kids. But unfortunately when I went for my 12w scan at the end of September my baby had no heartbeat and only measured 11w. Now all I want is to be pregnant again, I am over my depression and off my meds.. I think you will be fine and you have a lot of time to prepare yourself for it. Also accept whatever help you can get ?
Also my house is full on at times lol and it's not spotless. We get no family help and I am a stay at home mum with my husband working away on a 10/4 shift.