You aren't an old lady! I'm the old one at 40  and I can surely say that I had MUCH more energy in my early 30's than I do now and that if I had a baby now and 40, I'd be dead tired. You just run out of steam in your late 30's I think. Wouldn't you agree Flipada? Plus, you are on your second marriage right? So that's not uncommon to be a little older having kids at your age when you remarried and want a child with your new hubby  I can tell you that my girlfriend remarried and she wanted a child with her new husband. She already had an 9 year old and ended up getting pregnant with TWINS   PLUS she got pregnant at 39! I don't know how she isn't having a nervous break down. She quit work and is now staying home. I'll tell ya, I feel for her everytime I see those twins who will be 3 next month. Now could you imagine being your age with twins? No thank you! I feel so bad for her because at our age, yes the norm was to start having kids in our late 20's and she's suffering cause all her friends including myself have kids that are 13 and she can't do anything with us like go shopping, go away for the weekend or just watch a her son's baseball game because having two 3 year olds is exhausting for her. Granted that's double the exhaustion but I know if she even had just one baby at 39, she's still be exhausted. What's gonna happen after the next generation? ARe they gonna want to have 2 or 3 kids by 50????? Weird how things change though.
Ginger, I agree though, if you are in baby mode, keep going. I do have to say though that having my kids 3 1/2 years apart I did cherish just having one by himself for those 3 years. When you have two right after each other it just gets a little more hectic and you kinda lose that special time with the first one. Just my opinion though. Others might disagree.
Oh and Angela, we waited till our second one was about 1 too before hubby got a vasectomy. I did have the same attitude as you. We only ever really wanted two children and when we were blessed with two healthy boys, I looked at it as, yeah I could try for a girl but #1 I'm sure it would be another boy since hubby comes from 4 boys  and #2 I didn't want to just try for another one to just try for the girl. I was happy with my boys
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