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I am at a loss to understand my SIL. I was at my nephew's 4th birthday party this weekend and my SIL made a comment about him needing a baby brother. This is the same SIL that was hospitalized for two weeks a couple years ago for having a nervous breakdown because she couldn't handle the stress of her three kids. Now the oldest two are in school and she seems to have forgotten how stressful it was when she had them all the time at home.

Add to that, my BIL (her husband) is still in medical school. So if they have another kid within the next year and a half, they would have 4 kids before he finishes med school and is actually able to start making any money. She is a stay at home mom, so they are currently a family of 5 living on less than $30,000. And they only have that much because he can moonlight on weekends, which means that if he isn't at the hospital doing resident stuff, then he's out of town for 2 or 3 days at a time. She is essentially a single mother because of how much her husband has to work. And now she wants to have another kid, she is f@%&ing insane.

Sounds to me like she wants the attention of being pregnant and having an infant.

Now that kid #3 (?) is four years old, she feels the attention is slipping away. Pregnancy and infants garner far more attention than toddlers.

JMHO.

What a selfish retard.

I'm blunt.... lol

But that's just about what it amounts to. All she can see is her own WANTS, not how much her DH might be busting his ass to support the whole family, or the fact that she'd be putting pressure on the entire family if she had another kid. Put aside her nervous breakdown, she obviously doesn't care about her health...she's more concerned with the attention and "kodak moments" that come with baby-dom and selectively remembers those moments and edits the rest.

DUMB.

I agree about the attention, but maybe she is afraid she'll have to go back to work if all the kids are in school and she does not want to? That would get her out of working. But most people just don't care about what's right or smart when it comes to babies. Stupid breeders!

Considering how much he is gone, who is she going to get to father this child?

(05-20-2010 04:33 PM)Dana Wrote: [ -> ]I agree about the attention, but maybe she is afraid she'll have to go back to work if all the kids are in school and she does not want to? That would get her out of working. But most people just don't care about what's right or smart when it comes to babies. Stupid breeders!

She's never really had a real job. She got married at 18 or 19 and has only worked part-time as a nanny until she had her own kids. At least they waited until her husband finished his undergrad, but they had the first two kids when he had just started med school. She only went to college to get her MRS, but I don't think she had any intention of ever working outside of the home.

I'v noticed that some women like to have more babies because they just like babies, and presumably don't like it when the kids get older I guess?? Also there is the huge amount of attention women get when they are first pregnant and then when they have an infant. After that the attention dies down, so they do what they instinctively know best.