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She has 4 and is thinking of TTC number 5. She actually would rather have a 5th girl than a boy because she thinks it would be weird after all this time to have a boy now (plus she'd actually have to buy new clothes for him )

We had 4 girls and like your friend wanted another baby but was slightly apprehensive of having a boy....well had a boy 3 weeks ago and yes it was a surprise but am very happy, as for the clothes I have been lucky enough to have been given lots of the first year of clothes, new as presents and lots of 2nd hand, had none before he was born!

Your friend will be fine and I'm sure her girls will love a brother or a sister!

Congratualtions on your DS

Also how many bedrooms do you have? At the moment all her girls share but I don't think you could have 5 in one room so they would have to move, build an extension or do a loft conversion.

Thank you!
All our girls share the same room, but we are in the process of building a small extension which will enable us to give them a playroom for 'space', a large kitchen (ours is tiny) and turning a two bed house into eventually a four bed house.

I have 3 girls and pregnant with number 4, if I could chose I would have another girl as well, for all the reasons your friend mentioned, I think a girl will be cheaper and 4 girls seems neater and I feel a boy might feel left out although if it is a boy it's a boy and I am sure he will be just as adored as his sister.

mrsdisorganised - congrats on your DS we are planning to build an extension as well same as you playroom and extension to kitchen downstairs and another bedroom upstairs (we have 2 1/2 bedrooms at present)

Oh and a utility room with (top of my wish list) cupboards, we so need cupboards

We have three girls and then a boy, he is just a member of our family, his sex is pretty irrelevant so far [until he was about 6 months he wore many of the girls old clothes] We have been lucky in that friends with boys have given us lots and lots of clothes now.
Our girls all share a room and he has his own room [the girls want to be in together at the moment] we have a three bed place but the girls room is enormous [about 6m x 3m] his room is teeny. We only have one loo and one bathroom which is absolutely fine for now, by the time the girls are teenagers we planned to have bought my mum's house which is bigger]

I never had a preference for sex, was shocked when we found out ds was a boy but still chuffed.

Hi Kitty- how are you? how are your lovely lot?

Have four girls and one boy (second DC). He feels a bit surrounded and shouted down all the time. There's a lot of competition for the TV. Things were at their roughest when he and next youngest sister hit puberty at about the same time -- lots of antagonism, teasing, and silly immaturity that drove me up the wall. Things have settled down a lot now.

With all those girls, a second bathroom is a must. I have three very small bedrooms (fit a bed and chest of drawers and nothing much else) and one a bit bigger here. When all five were living at home, oldest DD had her own small room, DS had his own room, and the youngest 3 shared the biggest room. Oldest is now away at uni and 2nd DD moved into her room before the bed was cold. I do have a utility room. This is where DD1 slept when she came home from uni for the summer, and will sleep at Christmas, on an air mattress.

I have 5 sisters

hey lockets - I am fine almost 16 weeks with no4 now

Luckily we already have 3 bathrooms (new buidl house) but we really need bedroom space, two oldest are in together with DD3 in the box room, was thinking though if we do buld another bedroom and they are all girls that's going to cause fights too, who gets to share and who gets the 2 singles?

DH already hinting about getting a caravan for the garden (for himself)

I have 5 girls . Tbh I don't think I'd have known what to do with a boy!! . At the moment dd1 has her own tiny room, dt's and dd4 share and dd5 (11 months) is in with us. The only thing is the irritating comments about "trying for a boy" .

I have 4 girls so far and will ttc again next year, i too would prefer a girl for practical reasons but would obviously be estatic if i had a boy. I also get all the remarks of keeping on until i have aboy, my sil has 4 boys and she really was trying to carry on for a girl until she called it quits at 4.

had asked this on another thread so i'll ask here too, am toying with the idea of going for number 5 and just wonderin how you find getting out and about with 5 in tow, my eldest would be 8 if i had another and then approx 2 years age gap between each except no 3 and no 4 there is just a yr and 7 mths, sometimes i worry that i mightn't be able to give enough time to each child, it's weird though cos on the one hand i'm nearly afraid to have another baby and on the other i feel all wrong about the thoughts of never having another baby!!

It's definitely a challenge to find the time to give each one your personal attention, but with a family that is close in age, one of the plusses is that they can share some of the same interests and play together. The hardest part of having children, imo, is when they're all under 7 and you have to do it all yourself, supervise constantly, etc.

I found I had less time for the oldest two when #5 came along (they were 11 and 8), and I worried about it, but realised that they had plenty of friends and interests, and I think it did them good to have real chores to take care of and develop their self esteem by gaining competence. Baby #4 was a lot of work, though, so they had a taste of what might happen when 5th arrived.

Getting out required an ecologically unfriendly larger vehicle for me but there really was no other choice.

I know how you feel about not having the baby thing out of your system yet. I knew after 5 that I was done with all of that, but not before.

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