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[quote=Anonymous]I get it OP. My oldest is 3 and youngest is almost 1, and I have a very deep longing for a third but H says no way.

What stops me is thinking that I don't really want three teenagers, nor do I want three toddlers. I love the idea of three kids around the ages of 5-10, and I love the idea of three grown children with their own families, but everything else sounds a lot harder. I try to focus on the family I have.

Plus, I am one of three, and we have a very difficult dynamic. Two of us are always gossiping about the third. I don't know what it's like in families with two siblings, but I can't say I love the dynamic of three, as a child in the family. That also helps me reign it in.

The last thing that helps me is to realize that even if I have the third, eventually that third will not be a baby anymore and I'll probably still feel this way. I just love babies. So having a third kid is really just a very big, expensive way to delay this feeling by a couple of years.

I'm still a little sad about it but I am so lucky for my two girls and I love them to death. I just focus on them and how lucky I am and try not to think about it too much. Good luck finding peace, OP, I can sympathize. [/quote]

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