I saw one of the women from my baby yoga class today at the indoor play thingy. She'd never been especially nice to me, being a bit of an expat-wife-mafia-type. Thankfully she didn't seem to recognise me, or if she did, she chose to smile politely but ignore me too.
Anyway, she was heavily pregnant again.
Fuck. That was fast.
How did that happen?
4 years ago
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I agree, and I think it is a rather extreme way to prove you are are getting some
She won't be getting any soon. Or any sleep. Just a whole load of Mummy angst about how the eldest/youngest is being short changed.... Age gap less than 18 months - that's going to be tough. Unless she has a whole lot of help, which I imagine would make life a lot easier.
FM - thanks for the boost. Much needed as, yesterday, I found out that two of my mother and baby group mummies are also pregnant again.
I found myself a bit sad (I would like another child and the maternal urge, so absent for my first, is kicking in now), but after 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night and the realisation I am now as fit as I was before I was pregnant (and the same weight) made me glad I chose to wait a bit.
Mummy - I have 2 boys, 19 months apart now 2 and 3. The second didn't give us 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep until he was 20 months. We'd love another but the thought of all those nights, the whole very tired and grumpy thing - during pregnancy as well as after - and just general how bloody hard it is is putting me off. I know exactly where you are coming from! It's alright for those expat wives with loads of staff which still allow them to live a relatively normal life (I know someone in HK who has 3 kids and FOUR staff including driver). The rest of us who live in the real world with jobs and such find it a bit more difficult. Think you are wise to wait for a bit. I cried almost every day during the early days of my second. Someone told me it would get better after the first year, I could tell you how many weeks I had to go. They were right it did get better and now it is a lot of fun, but it was hard hard hard work. Enjoy Eve - I can envisage the Rothko moment so well. What fun! PS - not only is mean expat wife not getting any, she is probably not that pregnant but has no stomach muscles to speak of.
oof, I am now doing my kegals....
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