u/Get-Zappy-6389

This is my fifth pregnancy, but my first surprise! After our last, I decided to get myself back in pre-first baby shape and I was doing great with an intermittent fasting diet and nightly beginner yoga routines - I lost about 90 pounds in five months and I have been feeling so much healthier and happier!

I just found out that I’m expecting baby number 5 and I’m looking for some advice to keep me from undoing all of my hard work.

I know baby’s health comes first, but if there’s a balance to be struck I’m willing to try!

Just for some background; my husband and I were diagnosed “clinically infertile” due to years of struggling to conceive and certain fertility issues. We have always needed to take medication to get pregnant.

We always wanted four children so, even though they were all breech and I needed all c sections, we still had four.

All of my deliveries were planned and uncomplicated, no issues at all with normal recovery time. I actually loved all of my births and all of my pregnancies were planned, so it was just generally very organized (my favorite thing to be in the world).

My doctor suggested I get a tubal done last time around and I was willing, but chickened out. I thought I didn’t need it and felt weird about removing parts of my body (just a personal thing). I figured I didn’t need it anyway; we wouldn’t use medication and we wouldn't get pregnant.

So, you can understand my surprise when I missed my period this month and got two positive pregnancy tests.

This is basically a miracle baby and I’m very excited, but I’m a little nervous because I know it will be ANOTHER c section.

My kids are pretty close together because we wanted them close in age (6, 4, 3, 1), so I’m worried that, even though all of my prior C’s have been great, that I might have trouble this time.

TLDR: Has anyone else had several c sections pretty close together and what was your experience?