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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going from 2-3 isn't as hard as going from 1-2.  Your older ones will be in school right? I think you can keep the nanny and the WFH job, until at some point you'd rather SAH.[/quote]

I very much disagree with this. 3 kids means that you have at least a 4 year difference between first and third. Stages of life are very different for many years, different friends, different activities, different schools, etc. Two kids of similar ages can often be a pack… 3 kids… not so much.

I have a 10, 8 and 4.5 year old and the jump from 1 to 2 was much smaller than 2 to 3 in our case. Our oldest is into sleepovers and orchestra, our youngest just dropped his nap and is still in PK. In order to make everyone happy, we always have to divide and conquer. Had we only had a 10 and 8 year old we would not have changed much[/quote]

Mine are 12, 10, and 7.5.  Actually having the third baby - adding a third to our family - wasn’t as much as a sea change as when we added the second.  But the day to day of having three is very, very different than with two.  Ours are reasonably close together and definitely have things they do in a pack, but it’s not the norm.  We love having three, but it’s a whole other ball of wax than two.  [/quote]

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