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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin has three, and the second one has obvious special needs that the parents are too busy to acknowledge. The kid is five but talks and behaves at the level of a 2-year-old. The older child, who is seven, is mostly annoyed with the middle sibling, and the youngest one, who is 3, is developing at a more rapid pace and idnores the middle one. My cousin is overwhelmed.  I feel for all of them, but ultimately decided to stop at two as we are not nearly as organized as my cousin and her DH.[/quote]

I felt overwhelmed as a working mom of 2 but feel fine as a sahm of 3. My kids were 4 and 6 when third was born. I got to enjoy the baby when big kids were at school and focus on big kids when they are home from school.[/quote]

Me, being a SAHM, would not work for our family. My DH is critical of everything I do, so I’d be essentially a cleaning lady and a cook to prove I deserve to stay home. I am making adequate money right now doing a very niche job, so he feels compelled to divide the housework.[/quote]

I have always been a lousy cook and homemaker so bar very low over at our house. Dh makes a high income so we had a housekeeper/nanny before Covid. I guess it is easy for me to say it was fine as a sahm of 3 with help. I used to leave the baby with the nanny so I could drive the big kids around without lugging a baby/toddler with me. Now it is just me.[/quote]

Yeah, being a SAHM to 2 with a nanny plus a housekeeping is not at all comparable...[/quote]

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