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Hi, my name is Heather, and I am obsessed with planning out my life and baby #2.
I'm not sure exactly when or why it started, but it's been recent and it's been vicious. Maybe with Grace's first birthday coming up? It makes me feel like she is getting SO old...and as she gets older, naturally, I've started trying to piece together where another little munchkin will fit in to our world.
First, let me be clear (Haha...doesn't that sound like an Obama speech?)...I'm obsessed with planning WHEN baby 2 will be making an appearance, not getting pregnant right now. You can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. ;) Another factor to complicate things and add to my obsessive behavior? D's schedule for the next couple of years is all over the place. Nothing past the next 9 months is set in stone and the probability of a deployment at some point in the next 2 years has me trying to control whatever I can about our lives.
- Do we have baby 2 prior to him leaving...which leaves me rolling solo with 2 kids and 2 dogs for 9ish months? (Did you know that deployments are going to no longer be a year?! We'll take it.)
- Do we wait till he gets back...which might put Grace around 3 which would mean she and baby 2 would be at least 3.5 - 4 years apart? That's a lot of space...
- Do I convince D to try and conceive baby 2 right before he deploys and play with the possibility that he could get home right before baby 2 is born?
- Does all this make you as crazy as me!?!?
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So till next March or April I'll just stare at the calendar I created with three distinct possibilities for TTC #2 and someone can hold me back whenever a chubby little bundle of baby passes me by...
xo,
H
Man I wish our deployments were going to be 9 months - MP' are "mission essential" and remain on the 12-month deployments. BLAH.
ReplyDeleteWe got pregnant on R&R ... hard to time but it happens! That way we knew Chris would be home for the birth and the first year. I will say my friend got pregnant right as her husband left and it was the most difficult 9 months of her life.
omgggggg have another baby!!!! im 2.5 years from each of my sisters and I love how close we were as kids and we even closer now!
ReplyDeleteDara- I think 2.5 years is ideal. D is pushing the bigger gap. Like he has to do most of the work...
ReplyDeletei love all the planning! and as the devil's advocate - i'm 5 years older than my brother and 7 years older than my sister. it's been awesome watching them grow up although i think it's always made me a bit more protective of them.
ReplyDeletethe two of them were close because they lived under the same roof for much longer than i did with them, but once you reach a certain age, age is irrelevant and you all become super close!
no matter what happens, your family will be perfect to us!
As beautiful as the chilren are that you produce, I would suggest waiting until D get's done his deployment or be stealth and try when he's home on leave like Madeline suggested. Although I have never carried a child (and I'm hoping you will be my surrogate and do it for me),the idea of either being pregnant or dealing w/ 2 kids... and 2 DOGS (ummm Major, need I say more), sounds like a nightmare. BUT no matter what ends up happening, it will all come together and will be perfect just the way it is... love you Momma H.
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