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[quote=Anonymous]We had two girls and ended up pregnant with a surprise boy. All our kids are now in elementary private school and all are many activities. All have a social life and birthday parties. Thankfully, so far there are no special needs (except some speech therapy for my son).

We love having 3 and I am so happy I get to experience being a boy mom.
That said, life is much harder. Kids are loud, they fight, they have needs, school events, homework, school applications, teachers conferences, friends, sports, etc. 
I work from home and we have a nanny that does a lot of the pickups, but the mental load of planning and managing all the 3 kids’ lives is exhausting (and my son is only 5 so I am sure this work will only increase in the next few years).

Do I regret having our third? Of course not, but it’s definitely harder than I thought it would be when my daughters were 3 and 5 and I got pregnant and said “why not? We did it twice we can do it 3 times”

You can always choose to have a less intense life (less focus on each child, less activities, less social life, less competitive private schools, etc.). We did not[/quote]

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