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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I decided on two.  I always wanted four (we both grew up in a family with four kids) but I didn't get married until I was 30 to someone who was older and already had kids.  So I compromised.  At one point, I had a brief scare (unusually late period) and we discussed what to do if I were pregnant and even though we couldn't afford a third kid in daycare, we decided we could go ahead with it, have a couple of years of daycare hell, and then slowly dig our way out of the financial hole.  Even though we would be overwhelmed in the moment, we tried to look at long term...would we be okay in the future?  Would we be able to look back and think "it was tough, but it was short lived and we got through it."  If a third kid was going to decimate us financially with no hopes of recovering, we might have been having a different discussion.

FWIW - I've heard that going from 3 to 4 is not as hard as going from 2 to 3.  I have no idea why people say that but I've heard it a lot.

Good luck with whatever you decide. [/quote]

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