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Pregnant again! Is this safe????
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Anonymous
| My DS is 8 months and I think I might be pregnant again (NOT NOT NOT PLANNED). Is this safe!? I am panicking, I've always heard you should give your body at least a year to recover. I'm too afraid to call my OB. |
Anonymous
| While it's not exactly ideal physically, you will almost definitely be fine! Try not to worry, women have given their bodies a lot less rest and had perfectly healthy pregnancies since the dawn of time (and you have the comfort of modern medicine!). Best wishes. |
Anonymous
| I am in the same boat and my doctor said that after 3-6 months your body is totally fine/ready for another one. Congratulations! |
Anonymous
Don't worry! My mom and her younger sister were 12 months apart (do the math :wink . My mom is one of six siblings and they were all born in a nine year span. I'm having my third child this winter and this will be my third c-section. My second and third child will be 17 months apart in age. You'll be fine. CONGRATULATIONS!
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Anonymous
| It's perfectly safe for you. My kids are 18 months apart. You will love it once they are old enough to play with each other. |
Anonymous
| I had a C section & my doctor said I should wait 6 months to get pregnant again. She herself got pregnant roughly 6 months after her C section. |
Anonymous
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I think the one concern is the calcium toll on your body. Be vigilant with your prenatals and even take some extra calcium supplements. Otherwise, sometimes things are just meant to be...
Good luck and Congrats! |
Anonymous
| Thanks for your responses and good wishes. I definitely feel better after reading your posts and knowing that my irresponsibility is not going to endager the baby. |
Anonymous
| DH and his older sister are 13 months apart. Our 1st 2 kids are 18 mos apart and then the 3rd is 22 mos later. We had our hands full for a while, but it's wonderful now. Good luck to you. |
Anonymous
| Totally safe for you and baby. It'll be great when they are 2 and 3 and can play together. First few months will be tough mentally though... |
Anonymous
| Totally safe. My sibling and I are 11 months apart. They tell you one year primarily b/c they want you to breast feed the first one of a year. |
Anonymous
| I go pregnant when my older was 6 months and now there are friends. 14 and 15 years |
Anonymous
OB here. That's not true. The ideal time, physically, between pregnancies is 16-17 months in order to get your reproductive system back into tip top shape, so to say. That being said, being pregnant earlier certainly isn't necessarily problematic (though if you had a c-section you should discuss further with your own doctor). I just wanted to clarify that standards have little to due with nursing. |
Anonymous
OB, I would like to clarify -- do you mean 16-17 from birth of first child to conception of second? Or birth of second? |
Anonymous
| Birth to conception. |