Originally Posted by crazybagfan

During my 1st pregnancy, my blood test came back that my baby was at high risk 1-5 for Down Syndrome. My gynae told me i'm the 2nd highest patient that he had ever met. I need to do further testing and waited about 3 weeks for the confirmed result. Oh, that was the killing part, i almost cried everyday. My son is 5 years old now and he is healthy :) That part i will not miss :-p I also miss my confinement period, eating all the confinement food (I'm Asian and thus have to deal with all sort of confinement food and rules :-p).

I loved every minute of my pregnancies! Even when I showed an elevated risk of having a child with Down's I embraced the experience as something I was chosen to go through and tried to remain positive. When my child was born with Down Syndrome I was emotional prepared. I am so thankful for him and all he's brought to our lives. So even with 5 children, 1 with Down's and not being the youngest girl in town, I still love the idea of having another baby.

I felt amazing during my pregnancy but had complications - pre-term labor and gestational diabetes. Nevertheless, I felt amazing. I felt free and relaxed and so great, in fact, that after I had DS, I went back to the doctor because I didn't feel as good.

Originally Posted by mammabyrdie

I loved every minute of my pregnancies! Even when I showed an elevated risk of having a child with Down's I embraced the experience as something I was chosen to go through and tried to remain positive. When my child was born with Down Syndrome I was emotional prepared. I am so thankful for him and all he's brought to our lives. So even with 5 children, 1 with Down's and not being the youngest girl in town, I still love the idea of having another baby.

I just love this post and this attitude. You have some really great posts aboout your kiddos!

Not really.. I was doing well the first few months, never had weird symptoms or anything, not even nausea or vomiting, but towards my last trimester, that's when I had other things going on. Had GDM and I was in alot of aches and pain. Legs/feet were a little swollen and what I hated the most was my numbness on both hands. It's going away now but I still feel the arthritic pain until now on hands, but it's getting less

Originally Posted by lv lover steph

I just love this post and this attitude. You have some really great posts aboout your kiddos!

Originally Posted by crazybagfan

I know, a lot of people always complained about how suffered they were during pregnancy, like morning sickness for the first few months, the backache and etc. Some ppl also have phobia for the labour process, how painful it was and etc. Also, some scared of taking care of new born baby, how many sleepless night they had. I had all the problem mentioned, however i still miss the time, and always think of having a baby again. Fyi, i already have 2 healthy sons and i'm not young. But in my mind, i still always feel that i want another baby, because i miss the time of being pregnant, i like to feel a baby is kicking inside me. I like to smell baby. I always envy my friends when they are pregnant. I miss all my times. Am i crazy?

Nope! You're not crazy, I'm feeling that at the moment. My son is 4 & daughter 1, exactly 3 years apart, and I'm sad that I cannot get pregnant anymore:( I got a tubal ligation...**sigh** So, at times I get really depressed thinking I will never get pregnant ever again.

My first pregnancy yes, I'd have 5 kids if I could have had that experience again, my 2nd never! I had too much go wrong, before -secondary IF/miscarriages, during- ended up on bed rest from spd and after- ppd and my child was dx with an unexpected disease, the accumulative effect of it all is not something I wish to repeat, my little is worth it but with no genetic testing for her disease I believe it would be selfish of me to bring a child into the world who maybe more severe than she is.

I guess I'm the opposite of mammabyrdie not zen about this whole thing
Plus it's not an option because knowing myself I removed the temptation of trying and hoping that this time our genes would work in our favor by having 2 procedures to end whatever fertility I had left, I took no chances

Nope, I do not miss being pregnant at all! My baby is 5 months old and I'm still a bit relieved that I'm no longer pregnant! There were moments that I enjoyed but overall I didn't like it even though I had a relatively easy pregnancy.

I miss the feeling of my baby inside of me... But I want to wait a little longer before I finally decide whether or not I want more children (I have two girls and I'm 26).

I miss having my baby all to myself while he was growing inside me. Then I think about the weight gain, nausea, food new likes/dislikes, back pain, bloating, swelling...........:)

I also don't miss being pregnant although it was an easy pregnancy. I only felt tired during my first trimester with no nausea or vomiting. Due to my age, I thought that I was starting menopause and accepted the fact that I would never be a mom. Now I look at my 7.5 week old little guy and cannot believe that I gave birth to a strong and healthy baby. He will be our one and only baby too as I took measures to make sure that I don't become pregnant again as it would be another high risk one and I cannot take any chances

I HATED the first trimester but after that was much better. I prob didnt know it then though ... now i look back and i really loved feeling her move (it was so special as it was just 'us') ... but the feeling of anticipation is prob what i miss the most. That feeling like 'anything' was possible. Having said all that i had an absolute **** first 3 months and i think that scares me about having another baby more than the pregnancy!

I'm pregnant w/ our first child at 14 weeks. I still have awhile to go but everything is good so far. I kept fairly active before pregnancy and hubby and I planned it out for a year (I have RA though it's been on remission, but my doc and I made sure that I was weaned off the meds, and made sure my asthma med was ok for pregnancy) and then kept up w/ my workouts and sports. The only problem I had was the low energy during the first trimester, but I made myself still hang out w/ friends after work, go to parties (no drinking obviously!) cuz I figured that socializing will be limited when baby is here! Hubby jokes that he now has a designated driver for the next few months...we went out to downtown Chicago for St Patrick's Day and that was an adventure driving through Wrigleyville :) My friends are great, they still invite me to things even though they know I can't drink, and make sure to pick out restaurants w/ food I can eat (if it's a sushi place, they make sure it also has great tempura or hibachi for me, etc). I dont feel excluded at all. I also like rubbing my belly even though it's more like a pooch right now and not much there to rub yet! lol

I don't miss being pregnant. Although my pregnancy was relatively alright despite having gestational diabetes, i was really very stressed throughout the whole nine months due to a previous miscarriage.

I still want another baby, and i will go through it all again to have another baby, but i just wish the whole process could be shorter! Nine months seem like such a long time! But i guess it's all a matter of attitude....and i need to be more patient!

Originally Posted by BreadnGem

I don't miss being pregnant. Although my pregnancy was relatively alright despite having gestational diabetes, i was really very stressed throughout the whole nine months due to a previous miscarriage. I still want another baby, and i will go through it all again to have another baby, but i just wish the whole process could be shorter! Nine months seem like such a long time! But i guess it's all a matter of attitude....and i need to be more patient!

yes! 9mos is faaaaaaaaaaar tooooooo LONG! boredom has started to kick in and Im not liking it....to think Im just 24-25 weeks along....... the waiting part is not easy.....