Thinking About Having Another One...#4

Hi Maria! I personally only have 2, but one of my closest friends has 7. The range from 16-4. She has said that after the 3rd it was never any harder to lose the weight. She, although, is about 100 pounds soak and wet. I have another who is pregnant with her 4th right now, and she never lost the weight of the 3rd one, and if she did, it was a very small amount. Every woman is different. If that is the only thing stopping you, I'd just stick myself to a strict diet while preggers, and do what I could to continue exercising during the pregnancy. Hope this helps!
S.

I have four kids (ages 5, 6, 7 and just turned 10 last week) and if I had more money I'd have more kids. I think the physical effects on your body are so not important if you want another kid. Good luck!

Hi Marci,
I am a mom of 4 boys, today they are 15,14,12 and 9 and let me say the time passes os quickly. Working out after the 4th one really helped me today i weigh in at around 115 give or take a few every day:) and chalk it up to keeping up with those boys. We are a vvery active family from soccer and footbal in the fall to basketball and wrestling in the winter back to soccer in the spring. If there was one thing I would have done differently it would be to have the fourth one close to the third, the first 3 are all two years apart in school ( not so much on the calnadar) but the 3rd and 4th are three years almost to the day~ the 4th one kind of gets drug along from one event to the other for his brothers and does not get a whole lot of his own time. I know a taime will come cause he will be home with me the longest but I say to you GO FOR IT GIRLFRIEND!

Marci,
I am in the same boat as u. I sooooooooo want another baby. I have 2 girls who are 9 and goin on 8 from my ex. And then i have my Andyman who is 20 months old. I feel that my andyman needs a companion plus another child with my husband would be wonderful since he is a great father/ stepdad. The only thing that is stopping us is that we need a bigger house. i talked my husband into it by sayin after we get the house lol Anyways about the whole body thing when after having babies. I think someone else said it.... every woman is different. It comes down to how active u are about losing weight and gettin back into shape. I personally think nobody can go back really to before ur first. Some women have it lucky cause they are tooth pick but think about it, now u really have hips or other things that attached themselfs lol
No matter how skinny or big u are lol Anyways After my two girls it took me a good 2 years before i lost the total weight of both girls. I was never back down to the beginning shape and weight. After my andyman I gained alot back lol darn DQ banana split bizzards... my husbands fault lol Anyways if i would of stuck with a good diet and not craved so bad with DQ 2 blocks down the street, I would probably be back down to were i was after my girls but to tell u the truth i am not all that active to lose the weight because of wanting another baby. So what it comes down toooo is HOW active can u be?????? GOOD LUCK

I have 4 beautiful blessings. They are 13, 10, 9 and 7 months and I feel very blessed. I never worried about the physical appearance of how I looked before/after the kids so I can't really say how long it takes. I truly feel that each child we are given is a gift from God and I feel very blessed. You have to feel good about yourself no matter what your size is because life is too short to worry about that. If you feel in your heart that you'd like to be blessed with another child, go for it!!! God has the ultimate decision anyway.

Good luck with your decision and if you want #4, you should!!! I love doing taebo...the billy bands are my favorite!

Hi Marci,

I can only tell you my experience, the ultimate choice is yours and your husbands. We have 4 daughters rather close in age. 6, 4, 2 and 6 months old. Having the 4th really put a strain on our finances, not to mention our stress levels and being soooooo busy now! She's the sweetest baby, and I wouldn't trade her for the world, but it is harder than with 3. My body is having a really hard time bouncing back. I'm going to try really hard to get on an exercise routine, that's the only thing that will probably work right now! It will be nice when the girls get a bit older, they'll always have playmates. They do enjoy playing together, and it's neat to see all of their different personalities. I guess I could go on and on, if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them!! Good luck.

D.

i have 2 friends with 5 children each, one of them is thinking about a 6th!! she could probably help you out in the advice deparetment...her myspace email is...http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.view.... i will tell her about you and send your message to her so she will be expecting your message.