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!