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[quote=Anonymous]I have 4.  Going from three to four was easy in general. 
Older kids are old enough to be mostly self sufficient.  My youngest is 20ish months, and I love having a big family.  
Some things to consider:
1.  Activities with older kids: pps are right that that’s hard to manage the more kids you have.  You have to be prepared to say no to things like travel sports.  My kids can’t have more than two activities a season.  If there were fewer of them, I would probably let them do whatever interests them.
2.  Working ft becomes extremely tough:  I take one day a week more or less off to just catch up at home.  I understand what people mean by running a household.  This wasn’t an issue when I had only three.  All my sick days go to someone else other than me being sick.  
3.  Kids definitely feel like they get less attention:  my oldest said at her school last year that being the eldest out of four was her biggest challenge in life.  That made me pretty sad.  It really is like the loud house (nick cartoon) an unfortunate amount of the time.  I’m lucky my kids are healthy and not special needs, I wouldn’t have the ability to care for them otherwise.  
I would never change anything with my family though.[/quote]

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