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Who Wants to Have Another Baby?
:::This is me, waving my hand wildly:::
About once every 2-3 months I get really serious about adding to my pack (Diva Jr., age 7 and the Beast, age 4). And I really seriously present it to That Other Adult in the House (you know, the one whose cooperation is needed in order to reproduce?) His voice of wisdom always wins out. It goes something like this:
- Do you know it costs one million dollars to raise a kid?
- But we’re almost done paying for childcare!!
- What about all the sleep we’re getting?
- You’ll have to put your business on hold…(ouch)
- Where are we going to get the money for a third college savings account?
- Can you imagine carting around 3 kids to sports and extracurriculars?
- We’d have to split our attention three ways!
(Are you noticing his voice of wisdom includes a lot of dollar signs?)
These are my not-so-wise, but still convincing reasons to have another:
- I’m only 30!
- They’re cute & cuddly
- We’d probably have a girl (yay!)
- I’d get a lot of pregnancy attention (yay again!)
- Having a third child would diffuse the fighting between the first two.
- We make awesome kids.
- We’d get to do all the fun things in life (soccer games, halloweens, christmas, proms, graduations) three times.
- I’d get to design another nursey and buy more baby clohtes (actually I shouldn’t tell him that one. It makes him nervous)
Now Dr. Phil says that it takes two YES’s to add to a family, but only one NO to curtail that. Not only that, but Husb’s reasoning makes a lot of sense. Things are pretty calm with a 4 year old and 7 year old (don’t worry all you moms of toddlers- it DOES get better!), and we’re managing pretty well. Why throw in all that drama?
Then again, it’s so hard to resist when I visit sites like Bumpbelly or pull out pictures of my kids as infants!
How did you/will you decide how many children you want?
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God decided for me! We tried for over 10 years to have baby #2. Suffered a miscarriage in ‘97. Gave up and had a hysterectomy! No more Aunt Flo, and now life is grand.
Wish I had done it right after DS was born to avoid a decade of sorrow.