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E is 10 months old, we are planning on trying again after he is a year old. We already have a 26 month old as well. We are letting my body recoup a little bit more this time.

I was pregnant when A was 10 months

@Danizaur:

Yeahhhh I'm going to have to agree with @Mae: on this one. Craziness!

@Danizaur: You're crazy, but I get it! I miss the chunky monkey baby stage so much, but then I have a day when my LO doesn't sleep (today) and I resolve to put it off for another couple of years. Go hang out with some cranky babies tomorrow

My second pregnancy has been a lot more physically exhausting. Like literally I sometimes have no choice but to let LO cry for 5 ish minutes when she wakes up because my body cannot move. Does that help discourage you at all? (i don't think it's actually 5 minutes but it feels like forever when I know she's just telling me she's ready to wake up!)

@Mrs. Sunshine: lol right?! I thought my LO was so chubby and cute when she was a newborn and now I'm like huh. You sort of looked like a shriveled alien compared to your vast cuteness and baby chub now!

@Mae: @Mrs. Sunshine: I think it's because my LO is turning one Sunday, and he looks like a little boy now and not a baby! It suddenly makes me miss the chunky baby he used to be...but then I remember how little he slept and interacted, and yeah, not a 2nd one anytime soon.

I'm no help - I got pregnant when lo was 10 months old! I'm now 14 weeks with a 12 month old.

@Mae: I'm 100% the same! I thought I'd get baby fever going to visit my sister's newborns and instead I got the opposite of baby fever - like thank god I'm never doing that again!!

I got pregnant when J was 13 months. I can tell you that pregnancy is much, much harder this time around (I'm 36 weeks). The first trimester morning sickness was so, so rough when he was toddling around. He is a very heavy toddler, too, and my back pain is awful these days.

However, I'm excited to have two close in age! I'm not super excited for the newborn stage, but I am very excited to get to know this new little person and add to our family. We want 3 or 4 kids, though, and I am taking a longer break between pregnancies next time. So make of that what you will

@Danizaur: I like it! I always said I wanted to time-share a kid. You know, I have baby the first week, then they have it during the newborn stage, then I get baby back at 5 months, then give baby back at terrible twos, and so on and so forth. I don't have any takers yet...

Yep! You are crazy

Not crazy! Then again I might be crazy. I'm so excited for my lil babes to be a year or so apart though. Do itttttttttt!

@Mamasig: Same here!

@Danizaur: I'm weird and like to have my children on even years so that would mean another in 2016. Plus my midwife said the recommendation is now 18 months between birth and getting pregnant. However! I am crazy and may want to try for a third for the end of 2015/early 2016 which would put my second and hypothetical third 19/20/21 months apart. My first two are 22 months apart and I love the gap.

But I love being pregnant and newborns so that is a factor.

@Mamasig: Possibly! We can be crazy together lol

@jetsa: haha i bet my DH wpuld choose that option if it was available too. I loved the newborn stage those...so im one of those crazy mums

Me too, me too!!!

We have been twoing and froing for months but what swung it for me was seeing E playing with another child at the hairdressers, while we were waiting. The girl was 3.5 and they played so nicely together, the older girl kind of shepherding E but also having loads of fun herself. I thought "what a nice age gap" and started working out when we would need to TTC to engineer that gap..... Umm, we would have needed a BFP LAST MONTH!!!

I hated the baby stage but I really, really want my children close together......