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[quote=Anonymous]Just saw this thread and its very timely for me.  I have a newborn at home and my husband is already wanting to discuss a second!  To be fair, we do need to make a decision asap on that as I am older (will be 40 this year) and conceiving this one required IVF.  However, I always thought I wanted a second but this one is kicking my ass and I look forward to getting out of the newborn stage.  But what I haven't seen mentioned is somthing that is on my mind and it pains me to even write about because its so morbid.  But if I did decide to have a second Im afraid its mainly because I am so worried about something happening to the first one and then being totally childless. I can't imagine being a parent and then just suddenly not being a parent at all. I don;t know how we would go on.  Maybe the recent tragedy in Newtown has me thinking this way.  I look at my daughter and I can't imagine losing her but somehow it seems like we could go on if we still had to be responsible for parenting another child. Am I the only one with this reasoning?  I know its all rooted in anxiety. [/quote]

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