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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not me, but a friend who was in a similar boat - she and her husband agreed not to have any more kids, but she had some baby fever she couldn't shake.

What really helped her was something her husband said (I'm paraphrasing, obviously):

"Okay, so if we were to have another baby, then you would just be kicking the baby fever down the road a few years. At some point, we're going to stop. After one, after two, after three. And whenever we do, you're going to have to deal with some irrational, biological, baby fever. It's unavoidable. So let's do that now, and deal with it, on the family size that's right for us."[/quote]

NP I don't know that having another baby does kick the can down the road. When I had my 3rd baby I was DONE. And I adore babies and think my newborn periods were some of the happiest in my life. We had enough money and space in our home for a 4th baby, but we just felt so complete and done. We liked so many things about sticking to 3 babies- fitting in a normal 5 seater car, being able to travel easier, having a "big family" but not too big (dh and I have one sibling each and teensy holidays, no cousins for our kids), etc. When I had my 2nd baby, I remember gazing at his sweet newborn face and knowing he wouldn't be my last baby. I just wasn't done. I felt differently with my 3rd. It also was a harder pregnancy because I was older. [/quote]

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