How did/do you know you're ready for another baby?

I think for me it was just the feeling that I was ready for another, I don't know how to explain it. Probably closer to that I was ready to endure labor again enough to have another!!

I ran across some of my boys' newborn items the other day, it's incredible to see how tiny it all is. I so miss those days, but it's been so cool to see them grow and mature :)

Like Melissa said, I just can't explain it but I just feel "ready" for #2. It also helps that Selin will be over 3 by the time #2 comes and most likely potty trained. She's already pretty independent.

I'm just about done with my goal of finishing grad school and really the only reason we're waiting a few more months is to have a spring baby so I can have summer + a few months off school. Other than that, we'd like to have a bigger house but we can manage with 2 kids in the house we're in now as the market is not ideal for us to sell right now.

I'm sure the panic of OMG, how are we going to handle two? will set in after the BFP, as Liz said. ;-)

Honestly, I never had a "Baby Fever" feelings like some other girls. In our case, we always knew that we wanted to give Fede a little brother or sister, and we simply waited until I felt ready to go through another pregnancy.

We also feel that we would like to have a third child down the road, but next time I think we will wait TTC until Julia is at least 2yo, so when baby #3 arrives she's almost 3yo.

But you know... all of this is just planning, God changes your plans all the time, so we are open to that.

I felt ready quite a few times over the past few years. I think it really hit me when my daughter self weaned at 16 months. I realized that I wanted to give her a sibling and now that she was increasingly more independent it was time. Well that was a year and half ago. And DH has been soooo set on NO sibblings. Last summer it hit me hard. I had SEVERAL of the girls from my first playgroup get pregnant or have babies. I wanted soooo badly to be going through that but it was still not the right time for DH. So we tabled the discussion until June of this year. I had all but given up that we just werent going to have more. I even attempted to sell off the baby things I was saving for #2. DH saw this and immediatly told me he had been thinking about wanting another for the past few months and really wants to start trying ASAP! :-)

Of course at first I was a little caught of guard and unsure about it but now I am more than ready! I have mirena in and need to get an appointment to remove it and then we will be moving into TTC! :-)