Just for Fun! Pregnant and Nursing Edition

 

Facts:

• Jason and I have been married for about 10.5 years equalling 128 months.
• We have 7 biological children, 6 of which have been entrusted to us to raise into adulthood, Lord willing.
• I have nursed all our babies, only recently weaning our youngest.

 

So I got thinking one night, in the shower.  I do most of my thinking in the shower and they are great thoughts but all too often my thoughts stay in the shower, going down the drain with the soap and water.  Oh well.  I digress.  Back to my thoughts.  I wondered how much of my married life I’d been pregnant, nursing or both.  So when I got out of the shower, and dried off and dressed :) I made a chart.

 

J

F

M

A

M

J

J

A

S

O

N

D

2001

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

N

N

2002

N

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N/P

N*2

N*2

2003

N

N

N

N

N

N

N/P

N/P

P

P

P

P

2004

P

P

N/P

P

P

P

2005

P

P

P

P

P

N/P

N

N

N

N

N

N

2006

N

N

N

N

N/P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

2007

N/P

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

2008

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

N

N

2009

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

P

2010

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

P

N

N

N

N

2011

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

 

So, facts from the chart:

• There are 8 months where I was NEITHER pregnant or nursing, meaning that 120 of those months have been spent pregnant or nursing, or both.
• I have been pregnant for 63 months; 48 of those were non-nursing.
• I have been nursing for 73 months; 55 were non-pregnant.
• There are 15 months where I was BOTH pregnant and nursing.
• There are 2 months when I was nursing 2 children.

I’m sure the next question you (my readers, friends and family) are going to have is:

 

ARE YOU DONE YET?

 

The simple answer:

Only God knows.

 

My feelings on the topic:

• I feel like I’m done. 
• I feel like if I was never pregnant again, I’d be okay with that. 
• I am ready to move onto the next stage of life.
• Should we get pregnant again, we would love and care for and raise that child, just as we are these.
• Disclaimer on my feelings: These feelings are not a result of the recent sickness in our home.  I was feeling these specific feelings before all 6 children got sick.  The sickness only encouraged the thoughts that led to the writing of this post. :)
• Second disclaimer on my feelings: These feelings are subject to change at a moments notice. ROFL! However, I waited to write this post until I felt certain that the feelings were not going away.  In the past my feelings on us having more children have been influenced by my dh, and him feeling done, not on my own initiative.  This time is different. :)

 

 

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,