why did you have the number of children you have?

[Berry]

We're about to have our third and may stop at 3 or possibly have a fourth.....

Some of our reasons below are similar to what others have mentioned and a few others spring to mind too.

- we adore our first two so much and so wanted another
- loving being parents more than anything else in life
- curiosity to see what the next one would be like
- I had 3 sisters and DH had a brother and sister, and we both liked growing up with that size family
- DH was keen to go back for a third, and that reinforced my wish for a third
- My second baby was born at 27 weeks, and there was some sort of psychological need to "get it right" and make it to full-term for the next one
- fear of a child dying (morbid, but it does ring true when I read others mentioning this in their reasoning)
- pull of maternal instinct and pressure of the biological clock (I'm 34 now)
- We have a big house on an acre with 6 bedrooms and the previous family here had 5 kids, and I guess it seems nice to have a reasonably big family in this home