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jessicaem

The crazy things sleep deprivation does to you

Aug 16, 2007 11:41

Last night, I fell asleep thinking about my old friend, Contraception Guilt. I had a nice couple of years free from him while we left ourselves open to conceiving Penelope, and then while I was pregnant. And now, the time has come to work on the child we have for some period of time without shattering my breast milk supply with a pregnancy and ( Read more... )

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kitchenwitch August 16 2007, 16:35:57 UTC

That is WILD.

I'm thinking about the contraception issue, too. No hormones for me, that's for sure. I don't get along with them. My midwife thought that was a good decision, since our bodies still have so many hormones coursing around in them and it may not be a good idea to mess with the chemistry again. So, barrier methods it is. Blech.

schneckerock August 17 2007, 00:34:39 UTC

two pregnancies in a row isn't that bad!

(psst.. fam_breastfeed!)

tate_lover August 17 2007, 20:53:39 UTC

Wow.

litchick August 23 2007, 13:41:40 UTC

I don't know if I'm missing the mark here, but I've been off hormonal birth control for a few years now. I just hate it so much. Condoms have been working very well for us. That's all I have to say about that.

freaky... vampircat August 25 2007, 03:45:54 UTC

Maybe it's a common fear of new mothers--as much as we love our little ones, having one baby is so exhausting our worst nightmare seems to be having another one immediately. I, too, had this terrible dream that I was pregnant again about a month after Myda was born. I felt a little weak the next day and my mom asked me if I was pregnant again. I even started to feel pregnant, too. I don't know how to explain it. It was all so much that I spent about three days going over the possibilities--could I have been impregnated by a dirty nurse or doctor at the hospital? Was I drugged and molested? Could Irfan have impregnated me? (We hadn't had sex yet, at least, not that I could remember, but those first weeks were such a fog.) I probably would have driven myself crazy, I mean, I still haven't had a period, so in theory I could be pregnant.... Fortunately, I was packing to move to Augusta and ran across the second in a 2-pack of home pregnancy tests (the first one told me I was pregnant with Myda). So I took it. I was so happy ( ... )

Re: freaky... jessicaem August 25 2007, 06:23:34 UTC

Hey, there! Yeah, I bet that was a relief. I need to hear more about little Myda; write us an entry, with pics!