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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All your eggs being in one basket is very, very stressful. Everything became so much easier and laid back after I had a second child.[/quote]

PP here - to add, when my parents were deciding, Dad said that he wanted to have either no kids or at least two. His aunt and uncle had lost their only child and it destroyed them. [/quote]

That's some really strange logic. [/quote]

Agree. Is PP essentially saying "an heir and a spare?"????[/quote]

Not only that but losing a child is devastating, no matter how many children you have. [/quote]

OP here: I've known multiple people who've lost a child.

It was awful for all of them. But the ones who had more than one did a lot better over the long term. The world ended for my great-uncle and great-aunt when their son died. It continued for my cousins after their youngest was killed.[/quote]

As the involuntary parent of an only due to infertility and multiple miscarriages, this haunts me. But I just remind myself: I am all in. This is what being all in feels like. It’s the risk you take in being alive and loving.

But yes, it is my worst nightmare. That’s still not a good enough reason to have another child if you didn’t already want one, but it’s there.[/quote]

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