why did you have the number of children you have?

[visitor2]

I always wanted 4 kids but after having the problems we had with Eleanor's pregnancy we are sticking with 3. I now look at them and think that is the right thing to do is just have the 3 of them.

I always joke that when we are old at least one of the will look after us

[krisp]

We've decided that 2 is the perfect number for us. I'll be almost 37 when my little girl is born so no more for me! I feel really blessed to have my darlings and know that for us a boy and a girl will make a lovely balanced little family. Having said that if I had 2 boys that would be it as well, but I have to admit I'm secretly delighted to be having my little princess...

[*Ang*]

We will be having 3 and had already decided on this number before we got married. DH comes from a family of 3 and he thought that it was perfect. I come from a family of 2 - but upon saying that there is a 13 year age gap between me and my sister. I hated with a passion being an only child - I felt so lonely. Yes I had my parents attention and yes I had friends but I think that nothing beats having a sibling and so I refused to ever just have the one child.

I do have a friend that had #3 because she has a fear of one of her children dying and not having the support of another sibling to help them through it.

As unusual as it sounds this is also one of my main reasonings behind having 3 children. I am naturally a very morbid person and I couldnt bear the thought of having one child die and then being left behind with only one and that child growing up being an only child. DH thinks that my reasoning is stupid and is betting on disaster but I dont care - thats the way that I think.

We were hoping to start TTC#3 around about now but with Alex's sleeping problems and night terrors we have now put it off by a few months to a year. But it will happen!