No Empty Nest for Presley Now

No Empty Nest for Presley Now

Friday, March 7, 2008

Guest blogger RoleMommy reacts to news of Lisa Marie Presley's pregnancy.

It seems like celebrity Moms 40-and-over with older kids are getting pregnant left and right. First, Nicole Kidman, who has two older children, is having a baby with country crooner Keith Urban. And now Elvis' baby, Lisa Marie Presley, has announced she's going to be a Mom again, too. While I instantly thought Lisa Marie's first two kids would make great babysitters, the news also made me wonder if going through those first years all over again is even harder years later.

A friend of mine who has two older kids is pregnant with her third. She's confided in me that she feels like "an island of one." None of her other friends plan to have more children, so she's afraid she'll be left by her lonesome tending to a newborn while we're busy planning family vacations and dinner outings with our older kids.

Was Lisa Marie longing to recapture new motherhood or was this a pleasant surprise? Is this her way of dealing with an impending empty nest? Does every Mom at some point look back and wonder if she could do it all over again? As sweet as the idea of a newborn can be, now that my kids are older and I've gotten my body and my sleep back, I have to admit, it might be hard to go back in time.

For those of us past the baby years, do you ever think about getting pregnant again?

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No, because having my sons when I did and growing up with them was fun. Not now. I have not longed to do it over again. I am very happy with the memories of those times.

- mari

Posted 03/07/08 09:04 PM

I am a soon to be father (5 wks). I don’t know what it is like yet to have children for several years in your home, and then all of a sudden have an empty home. I can understand were all of a sudden there is a lot of extra time. I can also understand were it could end up being lonely. I wonder in these satiations why people don’t take a few minutes to become involved and share their experiences with new and soon to be parents? It seems like not only a great way to add something else to your life but to somebody else’s as well. My wife and I are apart of a number of online communities which to some extent encourage this type of interaction. Our favorite right now is OurBabySteps.com. We just have a lot of questions about what to expect, and how to handle it. For us, with no experience, its great to have people to learn from. It also seems to me like a great way share, remember, and fill extra time.

- Father to Be

Posted 04/04/08 12:31 PM