I wanted one child and I have one child. I feel very alone in this.
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Anonymous
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Title says it all.
We know other one child families but most of them come from something sad. Not a happiness to have a family set up of three, like us. All of my friends are pregnant with with second or third kids and I'm just having a night where I left a BBQ and feel on our own a little bit. The other weird thing is that most say they aren't too excited about the second, they just feel that "need" to have a second. It makes me feel like, they don't want two, but they want to avoid the horribleness that's an only child. And here my kid seems pretty wonderful. Anyways. Wish I knew just one other family that wanted one kid and wasn't mourning infertility. It's a nice life with a family of three, guys. Nothing to be mourning. |
Anonymous
| Life with three can be great. Its strange in the early years but later on its no big deal. |
Anonymous
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We're like that and so are our neighbors right on our block!
So now you know 2 more families who are happy with 1 child. 
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Anonymous
| One, done, and proud. She's the best. |
Anonymous
| Seriously? Just be confident in your choices. I don’t understand all the handwringing on this board over family size. Ultimately, unless you’re the Duggar’s, no one cares. |
Anonymous
I think you can be confident in your choices and still be surrounded by pregnant women and be like oy |
Anonymous
| I find it very hard to believe that most of your friends say they just feel like they “need” to have a second child. Most families want more than one. That doesn’t make you wrong. |
Anonymous
+1! Pregnancy was rough on me, so I knew one was enough very early. I feel good about the decision. |
Anonymous
+2. We were super fertile (pregnant on a single try) but decided we just want one. We know lots of families with only one and they seem pretty happy and normal. |
Anonymous
| We also wanted one child and have one child. He's now 8. We're still very happy with our choice. |
Anonymous
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I’m with you!
We are selfish and we know it, but we wanted to share our life with someone. We very much planned for DD, and we very much enjoy sharing our life with her. She’s our buddy and we love the freedom we have with one. We are never outnumbered, one parent can always have a break (super nice on vacation and on weekends), speaking of travel: three to a row! It works for us and we are very pleased. |
Anonymous
And we are both content only children ourselves. |
Anonymous
How are you selfish for having one kid? |
Anonymous
Yeah, if anything it’s unselfishly good for the Earth! |
Anonymous
I don’t know but as a parent of one it’s a message I get and I’m always just like, huh?? This idea def needs to be explained to me |