Anonymous wrote:Most of my friends have 4, a few have 5. 3 is small in my pretty affluent circle.

Either you're lying, or you're self-selecting into a very atypical group.

Look at data, instead of vibing out, silly. Birth rates are falling. Most parents I know have one or two children. Very few have more than two.

Most of my friends have 4, a few have 5. 3 is small in my pretty affluent circle.

I think having only two kids of the same gender is becoming less common. It's either boy-girl sib set or three plus, and yeah, probably because it's more acceptable now to have a baby at 40+.

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah. No thanks.

+1 that's a no from me dog.

No.

I have friends with everything from 1-5 kids.

I feel like growing up as a family of four, we weren't that rare in the 90s and birth rate stats back up my anecdote that only children are more common and 4 kids like my family are much rarer.

And huge contrast from my parents. My mom and Dad both come from very large families (over 7 kids) and in the 50s, particularly in Catholic circles, that wasn't terribly rare.

I think with it being more socially acceptable to have a baby at 40+, a lot of couples are going for a 3rd at an older age. Whereas even 10 years ago that would have been considered quite unusual. I know couples who had a 2nd baby at 40/41 10-12 years ago, where the first baby was born when mom was 38/39, but it seemed like you always stopped at 2 if that was the case.

Interestingly, the couples I know with 3 or even 4 kids generally have two working parents as opposed to a SAHP, and they also have lots of local family help. My SAHM friends all stopped at 2!

I am 51 and really wanted a 3rd, didn't end up doing it and am so glad we stuck with two for so many reasons.

Yeah. No thanks.

I work in tech and have been thinking how nuts it is in this climate to have 3 kids.

We’re all going to need to probably support our kids at this point so good luck to those ppl

its popular with female doctors, 3rd one cost me so much of my health...

I'd say maybe 15% of my friends (older Millenial) have 3 or more kids. Most are very religious.

Very affluent people are having a 3 kid trend.

So it's definitely your bubble.

I swear a few years ago two seemed like the “standard,” and now I keep seeing baby #3 announcements everywhere. Is this actually a trend, or am I just at the age where everyone’s hitting that stage at the same time?