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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I considered three and stopped at two.

I just know too many people that had kids with issues. My two (so far at eight and five now) are neurotypical and I did not want to push the envelope.

More than that though was other things. My husband is very introverted and even the chaos of two kids takes a lot out of him. I have two boys and they’re best friends and the dynamic would be different with a third regardless of gender.

Based on a number of reasons we basically have one functional grandparent (not local). Pretty much everyone I know with three or more children has significant local family help. That is not the case for us.

Life as a family of four now that the kids are out of babyhood is pretty awesome. [/quote]

I should also add that everyone we know with three (and granted most of them have kids the age of our older two) is living in total chaos. Constantly splitting up because someone has to nap and older kids have activities, no couple time, etc. etc. I absolutely love the idea of three older children but frankly I’m not sure our marriage could survive the younger years. And we have a good marriage.[/quote]

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