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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know because I've only ever been a mom of one kid. I will say that I have a few friends with two or even more and they do seem to carve some time out for themselves. It requires working with their spouse or other resources (nearby family, a sitter, whatever) to make it work, but they do it. Even if it's just one night a week that they go to a class or go out with friends. I don't know if this means they scale back kid's activities to accommodate it or not as I'm not them. I just know they do make time.

As the mom of one kid, I can say that this was absolutely a factor in choosing to just have one. Between work and parenting I quickly saw how much of my personal time was just going to disappear to parenthood, and I wanted to retain at least a sliver of it for myself. It was a factor for my DH, too -- we both really appreciate that we can easily tag team with our kid to make time. It's great that all it takes to give one of us a few hours of alone time is for the other one to just take our kid to an activity or the playground or playdate and boom, the other person is totally free. With multiple kids I know that would be harder, and we were especially aware of how much harder it would be once our first was about 4 because then you are talking about reintroducing baby and toddler schedules into a family that already has a preschooler/elementary kid. That was when we decided for sure we were done.[/quote]

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