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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Initially wanted three but pregnant with #2 now (third trimester) and this will be it for us. I can't handle the mental or physical demands of another pregnancy.[/quote]

OP here. I love pregnancy (except for first tri). First year is a bit of a marathon. I guess I waver because if someone would tell me you can have your third child as a two year old I’d be tempted. But then imagining that child growing into their own set of activities and so on, for some reason juggling all three schedules of non-driving little people — that seems like a lot.[/quote]

I wanted three but after two felt like we’d have a really rough time handling the first two years of three kids. Busy the time I felt like I could handle a third I felt too old. Now with both kids are well into elementary school I am so glad we stopped at two. One had baseball 5 days a week plus a music lesson once a week. The other has soccer three days a week and swimming once a week. It is crazy. The kids never have a game/recital/etc. that does not have at least one parent but there have been enough times that they overlapped that I know with 3 that wouldn’t be possible. [/quote]

We are pretty much the same.  We had two relatively close together and then one child was seriously, life threateningly ill for a time.  He recovered and is completely fine but it made us pause for a while and really think about what it would be like to have 3 kids, particularly when there is no guarantee they will be healthy.  In the meantime our two kids got older and now, like PP, are involved with their own activities.  I feel like we're so busy.  I sometimes wish we had a third but on the other hand it's fun to really start doing more adventurous things (trips, etc.) with two older kids.[/quote]

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