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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The opposite. I LOVE newborns but babies turn into toddlers. If I could skip those years I'd have six babies.

Fwiw I have three and the baby phase with the third was the easiest. You are more confident and spend a lot less mental energy worrying about small stuff.

What do you dislike about newborns? The lack of sleep? The crying? For me I just tell myself the sleep thing is four months long. I can do anything for four months. [/quote]
This is not really a helpful comment. OP said she dreads the newborn phase. Obviously if she loved it, like you do, she wouldn't be asking.

Given her follow up explanation, I 💯 relate. It's a good part of the reason we stopped at 2 kids. My second took 11 months to sleep thru the night. Breastfeeding and pumping is awful. I made purees for my kids because it was cheaper than store-bought. The anxiety around my wobbly 14-month-old falling down, learning how to do stairs, climbing on the playground. And I never want to potty train another human being. That doesn't even touch on wait-lists for daycares and preschools and the financial strain of a third kid.

I love age 2+ (mine are now 5.5 and 3.5). If I could skip to a potty trained 2 year old, I would seriously consider a third. We would all like to skip the parts we don't like! Does that mean we shouldn't have the number of kids we want? Obviously for you it does. For me it didn't.

OP, ultimately I felt like my family was complete at 2 kids, but I also shared most of your concerns about having a third. If you really want a third, talk to your husband and any other family that might be able to help about what kind of support you would need/want.[/quote]

My point was that we all have parts of parenting we don't like. I'm sure many parents of teens wish they could skip the those years. [/quote]

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