“Excuse me, can I please push past you?”
I hear this question in Coles more often than not nowadays. It’s generally got something to do with the massive double pram I am forever walking around with, as if it’s my favourite handbag (which is now a thing of the past).
I smile politely, then follow with a ridiculous joke that I have found myself constantly repeating on auto pilot, about how I’m pushing the Titanic with my two babies in the pram. I get the polite laugh I’m after, and then the inevitable question comes.
“What’s the age difference between the two?” “11 months” I reply.
I watch my new best friend glaze over as they try to do the maths in their head. To save time, confusion and embarrassment, (usually because this happens somewhere awkward like the tampon aisle) I offer up the answer for them.
“I was pregnant 6 weeks after I gave birth to my first.”
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Bottle feeding is why she got pregnant again so soon (and having sex ;)
Sorry, but that is not entirely correct. You can still fall pregnant even if you are breast feeding exclusively. My brother's first wife fell pregnant with their second child only 3 months after giving birth, while she was breast-feeding their first child, and she only breast-fed, no bottle at all.
Ha ha I know what you mean by surprise! You could imagine my surprise when they told me I was having twins and they were born 10 months after my first! Lol I can't even do the maths on that! It was cute though watching them all start in the same prep year! 💕 Thanks for the read