One versus a multitude of kids.

So after deciding you would be having kids/a kid, how did you decide on the "number"? Pretty early on we decided to opt for two. It was pretty easy: both of us were single kids (to the disappointment of our parents) so we drew experience from that. I never minded being a single kid. I live(d) in the city and my parents have/had a shop: I met a lot of kids/people. Still I am happy with our decision to have two. It's so much fun seeing them play together. :-)

My parents keep "hassling" to have a third. But no, we're stick with two. :-)

economic realities and a late start meant no 3rd kid for us. i think having a third child pushed my sister over the edge so maybe it's for the best.

We're still (breathlessly) awaiting our first, so who knows, but we're pretty much settled on two. I've got two brothers, and my wife's got one brother; we're both definitely sold on the value of having at least one sibling.

Three just seems a bit much, in terms of actually going through pregnancy and childbirth and breastfeeding etc three times. We'll see.

No.2 is still in the oven but we're certain that will be it for us. I don't have the urge to have a large family and nor do we have the space or money.

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In my experience, these days having large families seems to be the preserve of the very wealthy or the very poor.

We decided on two cause we don't want to be outnumbered. But honestly, if I had been ten years younger, we would have probably gone for three. Who knows? But I think two is great. No way two can gang up on the other. hah.

In regard to space: do you guys put your kids in one bedroom? We decided no, two seperate. Why? Elisabeth still wakes up in the middle of the night. This is one of the reasons I BF for such a long time (way past 12 months). I don't think I could put her (O) through it. Elisabeth still wakes up every single frigging night. *sigh* I really long for uninterrupted sleep.

We were thinking one or two, and ended up with twins...