Tuesday 11 June 2013

Take my womb! I need it not!

This weekend I had a rather sad epiphany. I made a quiet little journey all on my own up to the loft and brought down my carefully stored, neatly labelled and carefully folded bags of newborn baby clothes. My dear friend, known on this blog as Impressive E has just given birth to a beautiful baby girl. Pretty much exactly a year after Wiggles was born.  I am so, so happy for her.

Unlike myself, she made the decision not to find out the gender of her baby. She is far more patient than me and much less nosey! They already have a little boy, Woolly, who is the same age as Biscuit. He's bright as a button, cheeky and sweet and ever and such a little character.

They had a loft full of baby boy clothes, but no baby girl clothes at all and as I had a loft full of baby girl clothes it was my duty to find them a new home.   I've passed some to Lucky for little Dinky to wear and now I've passed on the newborn stuff to Impressive E for her little one.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm pleased as punch to be able to pass on anything that might be of any use. I'm a big fan of recycling clothes and moving things along the line as much as possible. I just feel a little sad that I'm officially admitting that I'm pretty much definitely not having any more babies myself. It's like publicly declaring that my womb is now some defunct object that I carry around needlessly. Like a knitting bag with no wool.

I know I sound like I'm desperate for more children, but really and truly it isn't that. It's that I'm not ready to declare myself out of the game.

I'm not ready for hot flushes and an overwhelming desire to cut my hair short. I'm not ready to start faffing about with chip and pin machines asking where the card goes and announcing that they're "so confusing" or that five pence pieces are "too fiddly". I'm not ready to start seriously considering a perm as a viable hairstyle option.  Is it normal to feel this way? Please say yes?


Womb yelp....

14 comments:

  1. Yes!! It is SOOO normal. At least in my world where I have similar thoughts, it is normal - and my world is the only one that matters ;-) To me anyway, hehe.

    Melanie
    My Imperfect...

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    1. Thank you Melanie, I'm so glad! I genuine don't think it's just broodiness, I'm just not ready to give up all hope!

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  2. Well I'm new to this Mummy Game so I can't talk from experience. But what you're describing sounds perfectly normal to me.

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    1. Thank you Alex! I can't decide if I'm going a little bonkers sometimes or if everyone feels the same way!! Hope you get a little more sleep soon, new mummying is so tough xx

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  3. Aww! Its lovely of you to help out your friend, but hey you never know! You could end up with a surprise one!

    Hayley
    Sparkles &

    Stretchmarks

    xxx

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    1. I honestly wouldn't mind that! But Mr Husband is happy with his lot so it'd be unfair of me to sneak in an extra one!!!

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  4. I can't speak from experience as I haven't reached that point yet....but you can always buy more baby clothes ;) (or perhaps Impressive E will send them back your way!!) x

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    1. She probably would to be honest! Mustn't picture future babies, mustn't picture future babies.....

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  5. For the record, I haven't gotten a perm lol. O'course, my youngest was a surprise baby, so that might have knocked the "not ready" right out of me!

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    1. Fantastic!!! See I really wouldn't mind a surprise baby, that'd stop me from having to make any grown up decisions!!!

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  6. I feel exactly this way, exactly! Except I kind of want a perm.

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    1. I'm so glad I'm not alone in this!!!

      And yeah, secretly I want a perm too....;) xx

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  7. Here's how it often works. You get rid of all the baby stuff and you get pregnant.
    Anyway perms rock.
    xxx

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    1. Ha!!!! I think you've probably hit the mail on the head there!!! :)

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