re: Parents with 3 kids, are you glad you didn't stop at 2?

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Woman up! You can do it. ;-)

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I'm going to go through with it, no doubt. Doesn't mean I am going to enjoy the process.

we have three boys ages 5, 3 & 6 months. we do not regret it at all. We were trying for a girl but we love our little boy as you can imagine. I am convinced we are stopping, wife is not 100% sure except for when we have to pay daycare and private school tuition.

I will say its much harder to find a babysitter and overall another kid is another expense especially with the cost of daycare.

I will also say he has been the easiest just because we are so experienced but he has been the hardest to get to sleep through the night. But wouldnt trade it for the world.

We have 3. 7, 5, 10 months. Glad I didn't stop because I finally had a boy!! We are almost done with bottles and formula so that will be nice.

A fourth is not out of the question.

After dealing with infertility issues, we gratefully took whatever came our way. Number 3 was not planned, but she was (is) the best surprise I ever got.

As an infant she was probably the easiest of the three, but now that she's older she is definitely more stubborn, but also more determined, than the others. A bit feisty too!

As a side note to this thread, remember when up to the late 60's / early 70's, 4 and 5 kid families were not uncommon? LOL....

Too late! I'm old as dirt now, remember?

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Too late! I'm old as dirt now, remember?

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I would treat it as practice

I have a non-scientific theory that there are a lot of families with three daughters (which may or may not be true), and the reason for that is that every man wants to have at least one son. They have their first kid, girl, let's have another. Second kid is another girl. So they're willing to take one last shot to get a boy, and when they get another girl, they stop because the family is just getting too big and that was the last gamble.