And by number 3........ I totally mean adding another kiddo to the family. I can't believe I just put it out there like that. As always, I am conflicted. Here are the thoughts running through my head, in no particular order
My kiddos are getting so big. Kait will be 4 and LJ will 2 be in April. They are walking and talking and Kaitlyn acts like she Will be a legal adult soon.
I miss snugly baby time.
I miss being pregnant
I miss feeling a baby kick
3 kids would mean buying a bigger vehicle....even...dare I say, a minivan *gasp!*
3 kids would mean 5 more years of daycare
I love the delivery. Granted I never had a real delivery just c-sections but I do LOVE L.O.V.E those first few days..even if it was terribly stressful with a heart baby. There is just something about that newness...that feeling of brand new.
I loved my ob and midwife.
I would have to find a new OB and midwife since my insurance has changed.
I have to worry about having enough paid leave. Geez, grad school was great in that respect.
What if it is another heart baby.
How will my family/friends feel who have been trying like crazy to have JUST one and here I am trying to have a third?
Do I really want to give up sleeping at night?
How will we arrange the kids in their rooms? one would have to share with the baby and from experience, kid + baby in the same room was not always easy.
Traveling with three, especially a baby, makes it hard.
We want to start vacationing with the kids.
But LJ is my baby.......I look at him and see my little baby and I am not sure I am ready to give that title away. How can I take that from him?
Kait is an amazing sister and LJ LOVES babies.
Some days I feel like two kids are enough and I feel soooo complete.
Some days I feel like I have so much more love to give...I know it's there.
We did give away A LOT of our baby items.
we have to travel to see our parents and I feel like a big enough burden having parents bored the four of us....
Who doesn't love a baby?
Back and forth, back and forth. we haven't settled which way to go. I just keep feeling that if I didn't want another it would be a sure thing...that I would just definitely know and this thought of baby #3 wouldn't' keep creeping up...but so many reservations....
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