[kakuehl]

Tara, (and everyone else) it's been a while (my youngest is 30 in July), but I got pregnant the month after I went off birth control each time with the two I raised. Getting pregnant has obviously NOT ever been a difficulty for me. (Unfortunately, my DH wanted to stop with 2 since we had one of each kind, or I'd probably have at least a dozen.) My mother warned me when I placed D that I might never be able to get pregnant again.

I must have driven DH crazy the first years of our marriage because I so badly wanted another child. My arms were so empty. I taught the whole time I was pregnant (It's fun teaching 6th grades circle dances at 8mo pregnant.) That pregnancy was probably the most difficult of the three, physically and maybe emotionally too.

I have had to answer the question of how many pregnancies/children evey year at my GYN appointment. Only it would be phrased, you have 3 children? and I would respond something like, I've had three live births and I'm raising two children. (Sigh... always awkward.) I did tell my dr when I began reunion with D.

I enjoyed my pregnancies and babies... they never took D's place but they sure kept me busy!

My advice to all of you is to enjoy each day to its fullest. (Regrets are probably inevitable, but try to live in the present!)