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[quote=Anonymous]I terminated my unplanned third pregnancy at 43. Now at 47, I sometimes am sad about it and regret our decision, and at other times I am at peace with it and frankly glad that we don’t have a 3rd. We are an active family and do lots of travel and activities with our two kids, and that would be hard with a baby/toddler in our 40s because of fatigue/money/logistics. One thing is certain: I am *significantly* more tired at 47 than I was at 43. Had I been in my 30s, I would have kept the baby even though imo the ideal family size is 4. We have several friends with 3 who are older parents too, and their youngest children behave more poorly than their sibs and receive a lot less attention from the parents than the older kids did.

If you decide to go for it, make sure you do all the prenatal testing and are comfortable with terminating an abnormal fetus. Raising kids well is hard; raising 3 or a SN kid is way harder, and doing so in your 40s, 50s and beyond sounds awfully difficult to me. [/quote]

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