[Solved] Men - Broody ?

I'm not sure if this is broody or not but being a stay at home dad and having my daughter at school all day I've grown into wanting to add to our family. I don't get cooey over other peoples kids or anything like that and its not an excuse not to return back to work (unlike a group of girls my missus overheard yesterday).

However, we've taken a sensible approach to this, we've both decided that she is too close to finishing her course and that a baby now would be too much of a set back so we're looking at trying for child #2 once she's been in employment long enough to qualify for full maternity leave. Admittedly by this time our daughter will be 7 and will be almost 8 when the baby is born but an 8 year gap between my brother and I (and 10 years between me and my older sister) never got in the way of a good relationship between us.

I do sometimes look at little babys and think are there cute,but im happy with my little tearaway 2yr old and that's that,I don't get broody as I always remember all those sleepless nights and stuff,now being a stay at home dad aswell I know how hard it is to look after a toddler.. 🙂 ) 😉 😉

Hmm, can honestly say i always wanted kids even before i met my wife..... was this broodiness?

Not sure what i would have done if we'd not had them, i suppose i can understand the idea of broodiness. Not sure i would have ever admitted it thou, which is probably a sad indictment....

Ron

same as Ronaldo, I always wanted kids before I met my mrs,

I get broody - its mad that when he was a "baby-baby" I was wishing the time away so we could chat or play football - go on a bike ride etc - now we do all those things I really miss having a "baby-baby" around.

there is a recent development though!, we have decided within the last month or so that come October this year we will start trying for our second, so there may be more little feet on theeir way!

Danny

We've talked about something similar as I said above, although we need to find out if she is able to or not as she had some difficulties in labour with our daughter (she had an Atrium Lip or something, which resulted in a c-section and it all depends on whether they think that will return and how the Doctor performed the c-section as if its a vertical cut its unlikely that they'll do another c-section, if its horizontal then it should be fine).

Hi all you broody dads

I for one am happy with my lot - two great boys who I really enjoy their company (most of the time).

Remember the nappies, sleep deprivation and constantly watching them. That memory stops me being broody!!!

Regards

Mario

We have our daughter who's nearly one. It's been a real journey for all of us - amazing and fantastic and sometimes stressful and above all else completely knackering. I couldn't get my head around another one at the moment! We definitely would have to find other jobs, move to be closer to relatives and wait for our girl to go into nursery...so in about 2 years maybe!?! I'm a SAHD four days a week and it can be lonely, isolating and really hard work but I wouldn't change anything. It completely changed me and how I look at the world. I look at families I know where they have more than one and my hat goes off to them...they deserve an award!

I think a lot of us go through that stage of not being able to imagine having more than one child but then you may start to think that you don't want your son/daughter to be an only one and then you start thinking, well we've got all the gear, pushchair, cot, toys, clothes car seat etc etc, it won't be as expensive second time around and before you know it you've got your second child on the way!

I think thats very true. We've still got most of the stuff from our first in the loft, yes there'll be a bigger gap between the two kids than most people have but that means our daughter can get involved in pretty much every aspect of a second childs life, so rather than there being potential "replacement" style problems, she'll see that she's just as important in new babies life as we are.

Hooray!!
I am sooo pleased that I'm not the only broody one.
could go on having kids all the time. Nappies and waking at night doesn't really bother me - the rewards are massive: gurgles, smiles and watching the early years development chug along.

I guess on the flip side little ones grow into teenagers 😉 and that is a sobering thought - for me at least.
I know my skills with teenagers are very weak. I seem to flip from either being a friend to them or being incredibly strict - and I found that really stressful.
So my broodiness keeps in check.

As for things in the loft, we've got loads - and we're waiting for our grandchildren to use them now.

In the mean time I will keep cooing at little ones I see at todder group etc
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