Anyone had to convince their husband?

[Babygirlquest]

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[XXforhubby]

Another boy joining the clan so totally going to save on recycling clothes. Its a shame its the last baby but doesn't mean the next would be a girl either [emoji23]

Mum to 4 Boys awaiting her Princess

That's how I feel Netti! Sure we could totally try for #4 but there would be no guarantees it would be a girl! We are leaning towards being done. After watching the AFC football championship game last weekend, my DH sees I'm a total boy mom! You should have seen me cheer when Brady threw an interception and Daniels ran it back for a touchdown putting the Broncos in the lead! I jumped up and down cheering with DS3 flopping about! My DH shook his head and said he never had any hope for a girl after all. I guess I am a total boy mom and my boys are lucky to have a mom who is totally into everything they are [emoji170]!


[emoji170]DS1[emoji125]🏼, DS2[emoji577], & DS3[emoji602] completes our family![emoji170]

[atomic sagebrush]

Atomic did you have to convince your husband too? Did it take much? I think if I can convince him I will do the same, do what I can do to help sway and then just hope for the best.

Haha yes repeatedly. We had our first two and they were in their teens and I was only 34 years old at the time, just felt kind of panicky about the idea of having NO children around. one night we got all mushy and he asked me if there was anything else I wanted out of life and I said I wanted another baby and shockingly he agreed, but we had to get some debts paid off first (I persnally believe this was a delaying tactic and I'm not sure he ever totally intended on going along with it to be honest) then I turned around and got a job and earned the money to pay them off myself. Then he had no choice LOL.

We decided to have one more if it was a girl, two more if they were boys (for personal reasons in my family experience, I'm not a fan of only children and especially with boys I feel they need siblings) and so we rolled the dice two more times, two more boys. I still didn't feel done at this point. He knew I wanted to try one more time, hoping for a girl, he was too worried about the potential for something bad happening due to my age (or that was the excuse he used, again this is something I don't entirely buy), and we settled into a sort of war of attrition where we were having unprotected sex at least some times of the month, but not actively trying. Periodically, he'd stop having unprotected sex and then he'd start doing it again, without any confrontation or explanation. It was all very mystical and befuddling to me.

If i had really, truly known that I would actually get successfully pregnant, I'd have been more proactive about sitting down, hashing it out, but acording to the data available to me from pretty much every source at that point in time (I know better now) the odds of conception at 41 are vanishingly slim so I really didn't think it would happen at all, I more felt like I was keeping the dream alive for a little while longer even though I knew it was over. I think that's really why I never did force the confrontation over "are we doing this or not" because I was scared he'd say "we're not" and then I couldn't even have the daydream any more. It wasn't intentionally that I was trying to manipulate or sneak one over on him, I just liked the daydream, the possibility being there, it kept me going through some times that weren't very nice otherwise. But then I ended up pregnant and while I expected every day to wake up and lose her she just stuck with me and came out healthy.

[netti02]

Hehe totally agree XX 😂 im sure if i had a girl she would be a tomboy 😂

Fx for you babygirlquest.


Mum to 4 Boys awaiting her Princess

[Little Lunasa]

This is how I know my husband would be too if we have another. He would never regret any child we have, i know he would just love them no matter what! How did you convince yours?

I pointed out to him that men have the luxury of changing their minds at any age in their lives but women do not, they have only a small fertility window in the grand scale of things. I was 41 and time was ticking. I also hinted that I'd be a nightmare to live with if I didn't get my way lol
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[1moregirl]

I'm trying to convince my DH to try one last time to give our beautiful little girl a sister, and our two beautiful boys of course. But our two boys do play so well together and our little girl gets a bit left out at times. Plus I have said to DH that we are not always going to be around for our children and I had 3 sisters and I want to give our girl a sister too. Not that it will happen that way of course. After my miscarriage I am more realistic than ever. But I need to at least give it one more try. I know my parents and some friends (though they won't tell me to my face) think I am plain MAD after the miscarriage I went through (sometimes I look back to that experience myself as well and think I must be mad) but I just want to try. I wish I had done it when I was 42 as I've learnt once you hit 40 your fertility really seems to take a big nose dive. I conceived our 3 yr old boy when I was 40 and had him two months shy of turning 41 and it was all smooth-sailing. I really crave holding a newborn baby girl in my arms again but I'm scared stiff of not getting that far again as well. I guess when trying to convince our DHs we just have to keep going over the positives of another baby.

[mummyoffour]

Another boy joining the clan so totally going to save on recycling clothes. Its a shame its the last baby but doesn't mean the next would be a girl either 😂

Mum to 4 Boys awaiting her Princess

Congratulations on another beautiful boy like you say you will save on clothes. How did you feel when you found out at the scan?

[netti02]

Congratulations on another beautiful boy like you say you will save on clothes. How did you feel when you found out at the scan?

Not surprised lol but i kind of entered a transition similar to birth lol. I just felt this calm acceptance that this was it and enjoyed watching him on the screen..he was such a stubborn baby bum squished down in a lotus position with legs crossed. All my other boys were legs wide open hello world 😂

Mum to 5 special princes

[Babygirlquest]

Netti you have such a great attitude. Your boys are so lucky to have you.