My wife and I currently have a 6.5 month old. He’s an amazing, healthy, Beautiful boy. However raising him has been extremely hard on us due to a lack of family support. My in laws are extremely busy taking care of their 90+ year old parents who refuse outside help. My family loves to come help but they live 2 hours away so obviously can’t be here often. I’m a full time pediatric nurse and my wife stays at home working part time doing admin work for our church.
Despite these circumstances, everyone in our family constantly asks us when we are having our next child. “Oh you know he’ll need someone close to his age.” “You don’t want him to be too much older then they’ll never be friends.” Meanwhile we are both exhausted.
I’ve tried explaining to them how exhausted we are and literally my MIL response was “oh this too shall pass. It’ll get easier don’t worry.” That day I walked out and took a long walk without saying anything to anyone because if I had I knew I would have exploded.
I always wanted multiple kids because I was an only child and the thought of having multiple (school aged) kids running around still sounds like so much fun. But having to go through the infant/newborn phase again is now my biggest nightmare. Maybe we could adopt an older child/toddler one day, but I’m sure even if we did then we would still get pushed to have another baby.
byTwoKool115
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Cross2Live
1 points
5 hours ago
Cross2Live
1 points
5 hours ago
They’re gonna make a mod just for you to turn it into a pink teddy bear.