Jon and Kate plus 8. I'll get there, someday..
With 2 pregnancies back to back, I’ve been pregnant for so long I can’t remember what it feels like not to be pregnant. To wear regular clothes and dye my hair and bend over to cut my toenails without passing out. And I’ve been telling everyone who will listen that I NEED A BREAK. My body is screaming out for some respite and I have this nagging suspicion that it will go on strike if I have a third kid. Like completely break down and refuse to work.
Just the other day my mom (who adores kids) told me flat out that if I had another kid, Grandma won’t be coming to the rescue. There’s no way she’s watching 3 kids while I head out for my weekly movie breaks.
And I ended up having this totally weirdish conversation with her in the kitchen. Cos it’s always awkward talking to your mom about the details of your very active sex life.
Mom: You should consider some contraceptive methods after you give birth.
Me: *mumbles* Yeah, we’ll look into it.
Mom: It’s important to do some family planning, like see what options are available.
Me: *mumbles some more* Uh, yeah, I know.
She probably had a lot more to say, but I had to make a hasty getaway before the conversation ended up something like “Mommy’s favorite contraceptive was…” Ok, TOO. MUCH. INFORMATION.
That being said, I am definitely going to have some serious contraceptive plan after I pop (which will be reserved for another post) because I cannot handle having a third kid, at least not in the next 3 years. I need my life back. But the totally freaky thing is that I’ve been having this recurrent dream that almost immediately after Kirsten in born, I’m preggers again.
So in my dream I’m holding the pregnancy test strip and there’s that plus sign which means positive and I’m freaking out at the husband (it will be all his fault if it happens) and screaming “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO” at the top of my lungs.
And you’d think the dream ends there, but then it continues and suffice to say, at the end of the dream, I look like a cross between a hobo and Helena Bonham Carter, except with crazier hair and bloodshot eyes.
Repeat after me. Not going to happen.
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I can totally understand. I just had twins 9 mnths ago, just got bits of my life back and I freaked out when…my friend was preggers after her twins just after 1 year. I CANNOT imagine myself like her. And I was in total shudders when I was spotting for 1 whole week before my previous period…which arrived after 1 whole week. Cold sweat!
With Kirsten on the way I have been trying to master the “one-look-is-all-it-takes” glare. The ideal is that with one fiery look, Tru will stop whatever nonsense he is doing and await my next command (i.e. eat your food, pick up the toys, etc). It doesn’t seem to be working too well so far, it may have something to do with me bursting out in laughter after he starts poking my nose to see if I’m as stoic as I look.
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