ONTD

it had to have been like fucking IMMEDIATELY after, because you are really pregnant for more like 10 months, really.

I googled, and apparently it was about four weeks after. She said: "It was the second biggest shock of my life. The first was when they said Hattie was a girl when she was born, because we thought she was going to be a boy. And the second was that I was pregnant after my newborn had just turned one month old. We were shocked." They didn't wait six weeks after she had her C-section with Hattie: "“You’re going to have to talk to Dean about this,” Spelling says with a laugh, “because when we got out of the hospital, I was like, ‘Specifically, the doctor said to wait six weeks.’ And he was like, ‘They tell everyone that. We didn’t wait that long with Stella. Or Liam.’” So, why did she give in? “I didn’t want him to think that the sex was going downhill,” she jokes. Pointing to her belly, Spelling adds, “So here you go. Here’s four.”"

And apparently she only found out she was pregnant when she was in the ER for a migraine and they made her take a pregnancy test as standard procedure, even though she was like "no, I don't need it, I had a baby a month ago". Must have been quite the hospital trip!

She's probably already pregnant again.

i thought that's if they're born in the same calendar year

aren't irish twins two kids born in the same year rather than a 12 month period?

I know someone who had Irish twins and it really bothered her having two of her kids in the same class. I guess usually you don't expect that unless you have actual twins. The teachers and classmates of Irish twins probably just assume they're fraternal twins!

They would be in the same grade but they don't have to be in the same exact class

She could start one early or late, they don't necessarily need to be in the same grade. Here in Alabama, you can keep your kid from starting Kindergarten until they are 7. I'm sure it's different in other states.

I think of Amanda Seyfried's dog Finn (and I wonder why I know her dog's name)

my neighbor has a cat named Finn lol he's super fat

its my dogs name too haha

Breaking Bad too.

lol

Word, I'm getting an IUD as soon as they'll let me when my kid's born.
It must have been cool having siblings close to your age growing up tho :)

The way I just did the math in my head led me to "omg I can't imagine having another baby when you have a four month old!" Then I realized I'm stupid.

It scared me too, which is why I got on BC a couple of months after my daughter was born, and have been super diligent about it since. My daughter is almost 2, and I am still NOT READY for another (if ever). I told my husband we will see where we are when she goes into Kindergarten...

my brother was born 13 days after my first birthday. and i still wasn't talkin or walkin.

my poor mother

Ditto. I had my 6 week checkup on Monday and learning I have to wait another 6 weeks to get the Mirena IUD installed was fucking awful. I cannot afford an accidental pregnancy, I would lose my shit.

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i just don't know how you would want to have sex again that soon after. NO THANKS. pretty sure after i have a kid i'm going to be like "this shop is closed, thanks"

My parents had 3 of us, spaced out almost exactly 3 years apart. I don't think I could handle anything less than that. tbh I couldn't handle kids, ever.

ikr, both my grandmothers had tons of kids within such a short period of time, I would be losing my mind. One of them already had 5 kids within ten years, and then got pregnant again almost immediately after the 5th one's birth, and that baby had severe down syndrome. Fuck being catholic in the 60s.

My mom had 5 kids under six... the youngest two (twins) were born 13 months after our brother. I don't know how her sanity remained intact. My 2 are 22 months apart and I barely survived the first 8-10 months.

My husband's mom and dad got married and had 3 kids--my husband, his brother, and his sister. They are in their mid-twenties.

They got divorced and his mother remarried and had one daughter, then got divorced again. She's 15.

But his father got remarried and now has two more sons, and they are 6 and 9! His wife is like 46 and he's at least 55.

I can't imagine having kids that young when you're 55!

Something like that. My husband was deployed and wasn't back until 9 weeks after she was born. I'm kind of thankful, lol. A friend of mine's husband came back the DAY before the baby was born and then was like "I went 8 months with nothing, had it once, now we can't do it for 6-8 weeks?!" But he soon got over that because he was too tired to do anything anyway, ha.

With baby #1, we didn't have sex from the time he was conceived until at least 6 weeks after he was born. My husband survived. Now pregnant with #2, and it's maybe every 2 weeks, and I make him wear a condom because there's enough gross stuff down there as it is. Again, husband understands.

Maybe by the time you have a kid it won't be popular anymore?

You can't go wrong with a classic name. They will go in and out of popularity (just look at Henry, it's super popular now) but they will always be timeless. Thomas and James fits in that category.

I like a lot of old fashioned names and they are coming back with a vengeance. The DH and I have two names picked out (we are TTC, but infertile as of now), and one of them is a "classic" but the other is more out there... hopefully it doesn't get super popular before then.

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I have the same sort of problem, since my favorite name is Isabella, but I would never want people to think I named my kid after Twilight lol

Whoa. We are pregnant with #2, and Finley is one of my top names. Harrison was up there too. Husband vitoed both. Thomas and James are two of the very few names we agree on, but neither works with our last name at all, so we had to say no. Baby #1 would have been named Thomas and this baby (if it's a boy) James if those names worked with our last name.

Harrison was a name i wanted for my son since i was a teenager, as it was my (then) maiden name.

I was the last grandchild with it, my brother had our fathers name. (which he later changed to Harrison, so there is still one, out of 20).

My first son, was Noah Christopher, he was sadly born at 24 weeks due to my incompetent cervix, and only lived 26 hours. He would of been 5 in October.

With my 2 year old, the names thrown about were Gabriel, Harrison and my husband was in love with Leopold (i agreed to Leo), it took us a few days, but he just wasn't a Leo or a Harrison.. it also didn't help that my ex, an old school friend had named their boys Harrison, and another with it as a middle name.

He ended up being Gabriel James, not that im against it, but the nickname Gabe hasn't come up yet :) Im hoping it stays away for a while.

I dont share names now, my cousin took my baby girl name for her now 15month old. (Evelyn) and my sister took what was nearly Noah's name for her now 6 month old (Logan). Logan is really common around here now, so.. im glad i changed my mind. And, my sister in law named my 7 month old nephew Joseph William. Joseph is my fathers name, and William is a name from my side of the family, so there is another two i can't use.

Gabriel was a risky pregnancy as it was, had the same issues i did with Noah, and it will most likely happen with any further ones, so i figure, i can just go crazy and use all the insane names for pets. (See: Atticus the golden lab, and Tali the new kitten)

My kids are 3.5 years apart and I am constantly exhausted even though my 3.5 year old is pretty independent. I can't imagine having 4 kids that close together.