April 25, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Mommy Extras
I used to think that the people most frightened of accidental pregnancy were unmarried teenagers. Now, I know that there are even scarier scenarios. Like an unplanned pregnancy in the months after a woman has given birth, before she’s had time to recover from having one baby.
[...] You might recall my confession about post-pregnancy fear of sex. In particular, I am frightened of getting pregnant again while I have such a little baby. My granny had ten children and ever dince my second was born, I think of the chaos of my life and wondered how on earth she managed. [...]
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Anything you’d like to tell us, Kate?
I believe I ovulated within a month after giving birth (I had learned to track fertility signs while trying to conceive). That in spite of breastfeeding exclusively.
I cannot imagine having babies 10 months apart. I met a woman in that very predicament.
No! But I do have a problem letting my husband within ten feet of me these days. My brother and I are 13 months apart (my sister got the benefit of a longer spacing) and my granny had 10 kids, I think 2 pairs of them were 10 or 11 months apart. I don’t have very good fertility awareness, but my greatest physical fear is having two kids who are the same age for part of the year!
My sister and I are 6 days short of a year apart. And you know what? I think I might have been able to accept that when S was around a year old but now that I’ve gotten used to a semi-independent child, it seems even harder to bring the chaos of a new baby back home.
I have a 4 month old and an 18 month old. And guess what? baby #2 is colicky. i never dreamed that our second baby wouldn’t be as easy as the first. so now i am petrified with getting preggers again! not to mention exhausted. i tried taking the pill but kept forgetting to take it. so for now abstinence is our b.c., much to hubby’s dismay.
I had a taste of freedom between kids and I do think it makes life more difficult now. I love my second and wouldn’t change anything, but there is always something else calling me while I take care of her. My brother and I are 13 months apart, but my mother was ten years younger then than I am now.
Tammie, maybe our husbands should take up a sport togehter.
You’re all wimps. We had ours 16 minutes apart.
Sorry. A little twin humor there.
Thanks Mike.