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[quote=Anonymous]Unlike most of the PPs, I decided well before I was married that I wanted 4 children. I have only one sibling, a brother who is "off" (noncommunicative, lives at home, will never marry or have kids, etc.), so for all intents and purposes I was an only child and my family was not cohesive, like, at all. We all went to our own separate corners after dinner and never spent any time together. I wanted something different and after observing several friends' families of 3-6 kids, I knew that I wanted a bigger and closer family (not that you necessarily can't have one without the other). Four just always seemed the right number -- on the edge of "large family" but not quite huge, yet still enough people that my kids would always have someone to play with and someone to count on later in life. When I met DH it was something he knew about me before we even met (we met online so it was in my profile), and he has two siblings himself so a family of 4 kids was not that much of a stretch. I think both our parents thought that we would change our minds, but we didn't. We have three great kids, and I am due in a month with #4. I'm super grateful that I have been able physically to have the family I dreamed of, and my children make me incredibly happy (and drive me crazy, obviously! but it is all worth it). But by the same token, we are absolutely done at four. In terms of financial concerns, space concerns, logistics, amount of attention available for each child, etc., four is the limit of what we're willing to take on. [/quote]

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