Oops I Ovulated Again
I had made up my mind that we were finished having babies, while driving and enjoying the sweet, sweet deliciousness known as being ALONE. Something about the first warm day of the spring, an open sunroof, and thumping music made me certain that we were out of the business of making babies. Of course, twenty minutes prior, I had been trying on baby girl names for possible future daughters like Avery, or Leah, and Emeline, remembering only the good parts of pregnancy, childbirth, and life with a newborn…ahhh, the joys of selective memory.
But anyway, right at this moment, I was sure. No more kids. I felt the freedom that only comes as your children are old enough to be left for more than 2 hour segments.
“I’m almost free,” I thought to myself. “In just a few short months, I’ll have my body back all to myself! I’ll finally get to throw those nursing bras away! I won’t have to carry the enormous diaper bag, I’ll actually be able to carry a purse!” The decision, for the time being, was made.
I got to my destination, Tar-zhay, and began my much anticipated solo quest for nothing. I was simply going to wander around the store, with no need to worry about the possibility of having to change a diaper or rushing to get home to save the precious nap. Not two minutes into my aimless stroll, I saw the first baby, a newborn baby, being held by her very exhausted looking mother. This baby had to be fresh out of the womb, she was impossibly tiny, with wrinkled feet and ankles.
“Look away. Just look away,” I told myself. “We’re DONE, remember??? Done!”
A good three minutes passed before I saw the next one. Another newborn baby, that also looked to have come straight to Target from it’s birth at the hospital. The parents were fussing over the baby, who was so tiny and completely enveloped by it’s carseat. The baby had that unfixed stare and googly eyes that only newborns have and appeared to be drifting off to sleep.
I realized I had been staring with my head cocked to the side and my mouth slightly open in the shape of “aaah.” But I couldn’t help myself. I closed my eyes and shook my head, getting the image of that darling baby out of my head. “Keep walking. You’ve seen plenty of newborn babies, including TWO of your own. Now skedaddle,” I silently thought to myself.
Luckily I got a good twenty minutes of browsing in before I spotted the last newborn. During those glorious twenty minutes, I had purposely browsed in the lingerie section at pretty, non-nursing bras and dreamed of that day when I could where them again.
“Yes, I’m certain. No more children.” I smiled contently as I left the lingerie section.
Of course, though, as I left the lingerie section, I saw the baby. Her daddy was cradling her in his arms as she slept. He gazed upon her face and appeared to study her every feature. His free hand gently touched his daughter’s wee fingers as he bent over to kiss her tiny face. After the kiss, he paused and sniffed her wee newborn smell.
Right then and there, I ovulated. I simply cannot resist a daddy sniffing his baby.
As I finished my shopping trip, I imagined a future baby boy and tried on a few names for him…Keegan? Chase? Sean? Ryan?
Then I arrived home to this face. Ella, my eleven month old daughter, who charms me with nothing more than her soft cheeks and her gummy, slobbery grin.
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It’s no wonder I can’t help but fantasize about all of my unborn children.
Damn - you made me ovulate. And I had just decided last night that we were done.
I’m so with you on the nursing bras and the countdown to no big huge diaper bags. And leaving the house for more than two hours.
And I’m so with you on the dreaming about all my unborn babies.
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It’s so sweet when you know that you can finally get rid of all those damn squeaky, soft, chewy toys that you keep around for the first 14 months..and all the bins of clothes you do not have to keep. It’s just wonderful to sell,swap, or donate all those things and know that your finally done.
Dh would love to have two more but we are done because having another little boy in my life might send me over the edge but seeing those sweet little toddler/baby girls in Target make me ovulate too…but only the girls.
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HA HA!!
I love the straight to target from the birth canal. I go there too, with the baby when we’re short of things to do before/after the nap, when I have to get out of the house or lose my mind.
Did I scare that egg back in?
xo
ps. Ella? AAAAHDORABLE.
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How sweet…what a beautiful picture…a daddy and his newborn. It’s no WONDER you ovulated!! I’d ovulate…and you know how possible THAT is
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I am a guilty party…I have had my newborn out in Target…and I have heard the crashung of the eggs as we wandered through…
I know one day it will be my turn but right now I am in that “One works for me” stage!
….However I still want to smooooosh your baby…she is so cute!
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That face alone could make me want another one. She’s adorable!
I’m still VERY torn on if I want one more child or not. I think we’ll wait until Cordy is in kindergarten before we even approach that, because the thought of 3 kids home most of the day every day might just make me sign up for sterilization.
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My kids are 11 and 9 and I am STILL going back and forth about “being done” and then thinking of names! Then, I think about the fact that I would have a child in college and one in elementary school and those eggs fly right back up! Of course, then I see the newborns….
It’s hard, isn’t it? I’d say go for it. I’m sure that makes all the difference in the world to you. LOL.
My DH is done. done. done. Yet, when we were out on a date Saturday night, he pointed out every baby, everywhere. Seriously. I don’t think he realizes how that makes me long…
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oh i know what you mean! I don’t think I’m done yet. . . how can you want to stop when you see your sweet little ones!
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She’s so cute!! Thank goodness I can’t ovulate right now.
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And this is precisely why I am pregnant right now.
And precisely why I am going back on birth control immediately after squirting this kid out. (well, as immediately as I can)
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So cute!
I’m not done…we definitely want more, just not right now. Although this post didn’t help the “just not right now” case!
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I don’t know how you do it…but you got be laughing and crying and falling out of my chair with laughter all in the same post!
And I feel the same way. Every single month. After month, after month, after month.
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I’m glad we stopped. My wife and I would have loved another baby and a brother for my daughter, but 4 is just a lot to have to care for financially. My wife had a hysterectomy and I got a v-job so I was shocked just before my wife’s procedure the doctor said, “Even if you want more you still can; it’s more difficult but we can reverse you and find an incubator for your wife’s eggs.”
Hmmm .. .the miracle of modern medicine.
~Jef
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You’re so cute.
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That was, by far, my favorite post that you have written. I give it a gold star!
Oh, and I hate when I ovulate in Target. It just seems much better suited as a mall activity.
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It’s kind of addicting isn’t it? I know I want more babies. I fear some day I’ll be in this situation though when my husband is ready to stop and I’m not.
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I am totally there, fo’ sho.’ I think I’m about to win the war, too.
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you’re making ME ovulate, and that? is impossible.
maybe i can make my son’s girlfriend ovulate instead…
holy crap! did i just say that???? somebody slap me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yum you can just smell her gooey baby goodness right from that picture. How adorable.
There should be some kind of rent-a-baby program for those moments, just to get you through.
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I think about this alllllll the time. Like if I did go ahead and have another (#3), would I, 2-3 years down the road, go all crazy for YET ANOTHER? And if that’s the case, do I even really want that #3, or is it just a fantasy? It’s like lust vs. love. Hard to tell the difference.
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My youngest just turned three in March, and my oldest will be five in June, yet I’m itching for another, LOL. Husband is emphatically saying “Oh hell no”, ROFL.
Honestly, I know another is not a smart idea, both with the rising costs of things, and the fact that we just gave away all of our baby stuff, both boy and girl, ROFL. Plus, then we’d be outnumbered, and that’s not a fun perspective
Thankfully, when I get the itch, Hubs is understanding, and let’s me spoil our friend’s newest baby. Helps, some, but now I’m begging more friends to have babies so I remember how much work they are, and not just how cute they can be
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That was so sweet. And Hilarious. It’s hard to hit that combination, but you did it.
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Aw!
That’s so like me these days.
We decided that we were done last year ~ donating all the good baby stuff to Goodwill. Crib, strollers, clothes, toys, you name it. We got rid of it.
Just so as not to be tempted. We used so much of it the second time around just because it was THERE.
Just this past weekend at church we saw like a bazillion newborns all around us. My husband kept catching me giving them that “look” that you speak of, and would adamantly shake his head NO at me - knowing full well that I was on the verge of ovulating right then and there. Tarzhay (or mall-tee hee!) activity, maybe. Church activity, not so much.
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I loved this post!
Whenever I’m tempted to have another baby (and older babies like Ella and Arlo will do that to a girl - once mine turned 6 months he was all cuddly and sweet and now he’s giving hugs and kisses and clapping and is so cute I can barely stand it!) I focus on the hell of the first couple of months. I think about never sleeping through the night. About nursing 24 hours a day. About scheduling outings around napping and feeding schedules and then having to pack a truckload of supplies for said outings. About never having 5 minutes to myself. About having to be uncomfortably pregnant and then having to push another human being out of my hoo-ha. About the fat rolls expanding yet again. This usually cures me - be strong, my friend!
I keep trying to tell myself that I’m going to enjoy the kids’ (and therefore, my) greater independence. That I’ll like cuddling other people’s babies and being able to give them back when they cry. I still will miss my kids’ baby selves, though (well, some things about them, anyway). Sometimes I feel like at the end of the day I am saying goodbye to the person Arlo is and that tomorrow he’ll wake up all grown and I’ll miss that boy I used to know.
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Get a puppy. If, after a year with the puppy, you still want a baby, ovulate again.
That said, I had Olivia 6 years after my Amelia. We ALL loved have a newborn in the house - even if it did mean buying everything all over again. She’s just now 3 and we’re to the point (again) where I can say, “let’s go!” and we’re in the car in under 2 minutes and all I’m carrying is a purse. A small purse.
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Oh dear. I hear another little on in your future!
When I see a little one with their daddy (good daddies that is…) my ovaries ring a bell and say “Hello!”
I couldn’t see the picture here, but from other pictures of Ella, I can imagine that it would make my ovaries say “Hi there! Lets play a game.”
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I can’t remember what you comment was when I posted about Angelina Jolie trying to convince me to have a third baby, but I don’t remember you ovulating at the time.
I fell you, sister. What the hell is wrong with us???
I’m not kidding. The exhaustion! The homicidal tendencies! The no showers for days. Really, weeks.
No more babies!
But if we did, you know, have just one more, oh my God, you know it would be the most beautiful, right? Right. Okay, so maybe one more. Just one.
Maybe two.
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We change our mind EVERY day.
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Awwww. such a cutey. How could you not want another?
We’re trying for number two. I know I must be nuts since number one is only one (today, as a matter of fact — pop on over to the pumproom and see his cute pics). But then I’m done. I swear!
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After two I was done… To this day I am still glad I made that decision. I just can’t handle not being able to sleep regularly. Plus I had massive problems both times I was pregnant.
Your daughter is just adorable. I love her eyes.
I’ve just given up on trying to control my urges. I’m at the “more the merrier” stage!’
Great post!
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I go through the same thing. I am ready to have number 2 but I am already toying with the idea of a number 3 because I can’t face the idea that the next baby might be my last. The baby I am not even pregnant with yet.
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oh so totally had that trip to target this weekend - sun and loud music and a cart full of nothing!! soooo wonderful!!!
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I go through the same thing.. i had always wanted two children.. but with two pregnancies… instead i got a two for 1… now i go through the debate in my head all the time… but then.. i could end up with 4! YIKES!!!
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The third one is a charm. I promise you.
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Um, I have dibs on Leah, next time.
I always feel that way right around the one year mark. Sometimes it lasts longer than others. I have seriously convinced myself that I could have four kids and survive. It’s bad.
But no, we’re done. I just don’t need to be kept away from babies for a while.
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Hi! I’m a lurker. I have three boys and it is great. 5, 3 and 7weeks. I went back a forth a long time. Good Luck
I like keegan but i have a keegan. (3)
As someone who is uncontrollably excited about the possibility of a first child, I feel your pain/longing… umm, ovulation? Too far maybe. I don’t even have the child birth, sleepless nights and nursing bras to deter my thoughts. Why do newborns have this magical power?
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Friggin’ baby fever!!
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damn the baby fever! AND Target.
Ella is adorable!
I have a Chase who is 2
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I am totally going through th same thoughts…however, I’m getting OLD! I’m 36, and wouldn’t be ready to work on #3 for another year, so I’d probably be 38 before I had the baby….Is that too old????
Oh, lovely. After looking at that picture I’VE just ovulated. Thankfully Cleatus has been fixed so there’s no worry. Or do I mean theres no hope? *sigh* I can’t help but go back and forth on whether or not I’m done.
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I to think of what could be the “4th oopsie how in the world did we concieve with my tubes tied?” thoughts. Oh to have a little girl to do little girlie things with. It could happen maybe…
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We are for real done. As in the hubs has been snipped. Yet I still ovulate too. I think I’ll always be unsure. Then I remind myself how very short that newborn period lasts. Especially when they are born the size of three month olds like mine. Ha!
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We’ve wanted another baby for such a long time. I go weak in the knees at the sight of a newborn.
You’re daughter is so precious!
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These women are out to get you Jennifer. They are deliberately procreating to make you ovulate in public. You want one of my future unborn kids? I think we’re done after one.
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Ahhh, I can almost smell that newborn smell.
You captured the feeling so perfectly. I think I am done, I am ready to be done, I am ready to move on, but….
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A woman I work with is pregnant and due at the beginning of July. I told her today that I just knew when she had that baby and I came to visit her it was totally going to make me want number two like pronto. And I so don’t feel ready for number two.
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I’m blaming you when I start crying.
Oh, wait.
Damnit. It’s all your fault.
I did this at church on Sunday. A tiny little baby boy sleeping on his mother’s shoulder’s two rows up. I had to keep telling myself to stop staring at him.
Ella is just beautiful.
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Indeed. I was just blathering to everyone this week how happy I am that Eli is finally out of the little-baby stage and I feel some sanity returning. I borrowed a copy of Taking Charge of Your Fertility from my friend so that I could start back in with the FAM birth control method and everything when I get my period back. And then… I felt the baby fever. Why, Mother Nature, why?
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I must not be all female because there is almost NOTHING about a newborn that makes me ovulate. Give me a 3 month old baby who smiles, holds his own head and coos and takes a reasonable nap ANYDAY.
KEEP BELIEVING
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We’ve not completely ruled out a third yet, but since #2 still joins us in our bed a few nights a week, I’m not sure I could handle it.
Then again, since we’re already NOT sleeping all night, maybe this would be the time?
Nah…..
And one of my employees today told me she had a dream about me having a little girl…
Yours? ADORABLE
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I’m having sympathy ovulation just reading your post. I adore baby-watching. These biological urges are pesky little things, aren’t they?
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Um yeah, Target is probably the worst place to go if trying to avoid either pregnant women or babies.
I’m torn over wanting a 4th - my toddler drives me crazy, but in the few moments that she doesn’t, I remember her sweet little baby face and… Yep. Baby fever.
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Girl, you need to come to Utah with me. Everyone is pregnant and everyone has a newborn (YES! AT THE SAME TIME!). It’ll cure you right quick.
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man I LOVE my toddlergurl.
and I love looking at the bebes when Im out and about.
and I love watching friends bebes FOR them so they can nap.
but I guess Im an anomaly in my DONE AT ONEness.
one child.
one 160 pound dog
one NEVERSTOPSSNORING hubby
and.
scene.
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OH I KNOW!!! ME TOO!!!! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DOOOOOOOO???? SAVE US OH SAVE US!!!!
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Have more. Have a dozen. Listen to the voice of experience.
We have five. After each one we declared ourselves done only to discover we were already pregnant! I will no longer declare myself finished on the grounds that it will impregnate me.
We have a houseful, a loud, hugging, playing, joyously filled houseful. And, yes, I find that we still have room for more. With all these little people, I still can’t tell you which one was the extra, which one we could have done without. They have each brought something new and wonderful to our family. If we had a dozen (please, can we have a dozen? Do you see how far I’ve come?) I will still say the same.
I ovulate in Target, too, every time I see one of those sweet faces or sniff a little baby head. Somedays I say no way! and other times I call my husband for an afternoon rendezvous.
Have more babies, you will never regret it, but if you can’t….come to my house. I’ll let you get a generous sniff of the baby head.
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Aah, yes. This happens to me quite frequently. Especially now that my kids are almost 5 and about to enter kindergarten in the fall.
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You know this is what happened to me? I had just started to fantasize about new babies and forget all the work - and the ickiness of pregnancy - and look what happened. Boom - bun in the oven. I’m just sayin.
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this is exactly why daddy has a very nice store front but no longer carries inventory…I am not sure when I would stop!
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You can’t stop having children until a baby doesn’t do that to you. You will know when that is. I am sorry to have to break this to you.
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I ovulate every time I see a baby.Good thing we are not done!
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I just threw out all of my nursing tanks this afternoon and it felt so liberating.
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LMAO! You ovulated. Too funny. I do the same crap. I swear we are done and I am happy with one but then I HOLD a newbie.
It sucks so bad and I want another now.
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Hell girl, I ovulate every time I see your kids pics. And in Carters and Baby Gap, buying clothes for my nephew…that won’t be born until September.
It’s a viscious cycle. As bad as I am, I’ll end up with six kids one day.
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