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[quote=Anonymous]I have 2 kids. I really wanted a third and my husband did not. Long story short, our second child had a lot of medical issues as an infant and while he is ok now, I think my husband in particular just couldn't go through that again. For what it's worth- I'm sure if we had the third we would have been fine. I also don't regret it at this point. My kids are 11 and 9 and we're really, really busy with activities and school and everything for them. We know a lot of families with 3 or 4 and they're great too, but for the most part the mom doesn't work or at most, is part time (I work full time). I'm not sure we could have managed activities on the level we do plus our jobs with more than 2 kids. They're also getting to the age where college is not too far off and I appreciate that we're only looking at 2 tuitions. And everything with covid- easier to think about moving 2 kids to private school than 3. If you have absolutely no money worries it may be a different story for you, but we're more DCUM middle class and it's nice to feel like financially at least, we have options. We have the time and money to breathe. I know that no one would trade their third or fourth kid for all the money in the world and I'm sure had we had one, I wouldn't either. But as someone who is years down the road from where you are now, it's fine and I really am good with where we ended up. [/quote]
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