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    Posted: 14 February 2010 at 3:31pm
about how many children you wanted.

before we had children my husband and I always agreed it would be two..but now that we have two I am not sure I want to stop at two. but I am not 100% sure.

I did tell him if we were to have a 3rd Id want around a 3 year age gap between #2 and #3. #1 would be at school and #2 probably at kindy

he did mention we would have to move however can always stick #1 and #2 in the same bedroom,. assuming I have 3 year age gap between #2 and #3, #1 and #2 will be 3 and 5 and even though they are boy and girl in the big scheme of things wont matter if they have to share a bedroom for a few years. hopefully within the next 5-7 years we will sell this house and buy a bigger house.


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Yeap, same as you guys, we have now decided 3 kids would be nice. #1 and #2 will be older and share the bigger room at home. If all goes to plan

eta; Duh, of course #1 and #2 will be older but I mean we want a big age gap between #2 and #3

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Yup everyday. I only want one but now iv had one i want another one. Well some of the time, when we go through hard times im like no way! but then i get the lovely smiles and cuddles and i want more!
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I've always wanted four..now i think I would be very happy and complete with 2 :)

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I always wanted two children, now I feel complete with one.
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no i didn't, but just thought I'd let you know that even though we have enough bedrooms our 2 still share a room because I don't see a reason why not (means we can have a junk/spare room). So you wouldn't need to move
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I'm the same HUNTD - we have one and sometimes on bad days I feel like maybe not having another. 

But deep down I don't want an "only child" family.  I did use to think three would be nice, but in reality we will likely stop at two. 

Also depends on the age of the mum.  I will be 35 yrs when TTC No 2.  If I tried to conceive No 3 I would want a larger age gap..... but then I would be more aged than I would be comfortable with IYGWIM (Down Syndrome / trimsomy risk / my energy levels etc).

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DP and I agee we want 2. we both the oldest of 3 and come from stereotypical "oldest child, middle child and youngest child syndrome" type families. having said that if we got preggy with a 3rd we wouldnt abort or give them up or anything. and we want them close in age so they can grow up together (well as together as you can with siblings i guess lol) but we do know that we definitely want 2. dont want an only child.
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We agreed on one, then got preg with #2. There will be no more after this one :D
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I wanted 3 and now I want 2, althou I still get the odd day when I would love another one then I remember nappies and feeding and that puts me off.

I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Always thought I wanted lots ,like 5 or more. I come from a family of 2 - so boring!! not enough kids around at christmas growing up. Then I had my first at 31 and though mm maybe 4, now Im like lets just see after number 3. If number 2 is a girl then maybe 4, but dont a want a boy as a middle child so Iguess indecided, but have always wanted a big family
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if we have a 3 year age gap between #2 and #3 I will be 36/37 so I dont think that will be too bad for a 3rd.

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Was going to be 2, now we think 3 or 4

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DH & I had agreed on 2, then we had twins! I felt slightly cheated as had only had one pregnancy, then discovered I was pregnant with #3. We thought we were finished, I even sold off some of our baby stuff..........We are due to have #4 at the end of July
This is definatley the last for us
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I always wanted 4 or 5, dh always wanted 3

we have settled on 2 and have already done something about it so we hopefully cant have any more


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Dh wants 2 and I want 4 so am trying to get a comprimise of 3....

Like others I want a larger gap between #2 and #3... I want to have been back at work for a couple of year and then have #3 and #4...

Somehow I think this is it though... he just wont budge


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I originally wanted 2 and dh wanted 3, after having quite a traumatic start I decided 1 may be enough! Then a few months on I decided I wanted 3 and dh thought 2 would be enough. Now that we have 2, we've both considered a third and have decided for so many reasons (age, finance, stress etc) that two is enough. Its taken quite a few months to be about 99% sure we don't want a third.
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DH and I both wanted heaps, then we agreed on 3 for financial reasons.  Sometimes DH say that we're stopping at 2 (and I've promised not to put any pressure on him to have anymore) then he talks about having another one of each gender.  So we're up in the air. 

I still want more but then again I am so happy with the 2 I have and it's more important that DH is happy too (but shhh, don't tell him).

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YES I changed my mind lots! At first I wanted 9 (I'm serious!) but then had my first live-in-nanny job and decided 5 would be quite enough.

THEN I gave birth and it sucked so bad that for a year I said I'd never do it again (and I DID mean it) but now am hoping to have one more. And I can't help but think...maybe if the next birth goes ok and I recover well from it we might even think about another one...or two!

I'm lucky though- I have like another 20 child-bearing years left in me so plenty of time to change my mind!




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Originally I wanted NONE I was more than content being an aunty! But then of course, we decided to try for #1 - now we have her I want loads - would be happy with atleast 4, DH only wants 2 though - just means I have something else to whinge about till he gives in
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