Check, please!

I don't know how many times we get asked wen we're going to have another child. It started with our neighbor, who has a baby 2 days older than Eddie asking when Eddie was about a month old. I laughed. I thought he was kidding. I mean, can you give us some time? He wasn't joking. He said he told his wife that it they were going to TTC (try to conceive) when they got home. FROM THE HOSPITAL. Okay, Duggar wanna-be's.

Don't get me wrong, I love big families. I just went to see the Lovelace's, a family I started baby sitting for when I was a sophomore in high school. It was so fun to sit around a table with a bunch of kids, talking, laughing and fighting. God I love the fighting. Something about sisters.....holy geez can they go at it! I just can't see that for myself. I love Eddie so, so much and honestly can't see bringing another child in and feeling the same way. If we have one, we can give him the world. If we have 2, we will have to pinch. And I'm spoiled, people. I don't want to pinch!

Not to mention I don't want to go through labor again. And to those people that say you forget - you don't. I'll never forget passing out on a birthing ball and waking up to my doctor screaming and throwing it across the room, mad at the nurses for having me get up there. I will never forget my baby's heart rate going so low that we lost it on the monitors and seeing the look of panic on the nurse's faces. I will never, ever forget the pain when my epidural wore off and screaming HELP ME, HELP ME with so much desperation and fear. I honestly don't understand who would want to do that again! MICHELLE DUGGAR, I'M TALKING TO YOU. For real....I love the Duggars. Have you ever seen a cuter family? All of those kids (18) are adorable, the parents are adorable and so sweet. But Michelle, for the love of God, I think you're a little nutty. I mean that with love. I just watched the episode when she gave birth to their 18th child, Jordan. They went to a 'refresher' labor course (please...like she really needs that. She should teach it) and the instructor had Michelle stand in a frog pose - butt held off the floor, knees to the side, arms in front for a little balance - and the only thing I could think was CLOSE YOUR LEGS, MICHELLE! THAT BABY IS GOING TO FALL OUT!!!! CLOSE YOUR LEGS!!! Seriously....I was screaming. Now, that might have been the 2 beers that I drank to numb the pain of engorgement, but still. After 18 kids, that baby was going to fall out if Michelle Duggar sneezed, let alone the crazy frog pose.

So no, if anyone asks. I'm done.....until I look at Eddie one day and think 'where is my baby?'...I'm sure the day will come when I miss the coo's, the still not being able to crawl and thus stay out of trouble, the cuddles....and I'll want another (that shriek you just heard? that was my mother, screaming with joy). But by golly, don't ask. Let me surprise you, because otherwise, I might just ask you something you don't want to be asked. (meant with love, I promise!)

-maggie