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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have 3. I love love love having 3. They are now 8, 6 and 3. I don't regret the choice in the slightest.  Things I knew before having 3 but didn't really understand until actually having 3: 3 is a LOT more work as they get older. You now have 3 opinions to handle, 3 differnet personalities, 3 differnet types of needs, and 3 people to pay for. It is tricky to juggle it all, and I know it will only become a lot harder as they age. I feel hard-pressed sometimes to treat everyone as an individual instead of a collective whole. I know I am only at the starting line for this and as they age, it will be much harder. Just think hard about creating another human versus just having another baby. There's a difference in those ideas, and I didn't really think about that difference or feel it, until the 3rd got here. [/quote]

+1 although ours are 9, 7, and 5.

I definitely wouldn't do it because your daughter wants another sister.  My DD is the oldest and has two little brothers; she *still* asks if I can have another baby so she can have a sister (no).  That you consider that a "pro" seems strange.

I also think it become challenging when they're too spaced out, since the youngest ends up getting schlepped around to things.  Ours are roughly all two years apart, so we can do a reasonable amount of things as a group, they can enjoy similar interests, etc.  I wouldn't want them too spread out.[/quote]

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