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Third child - laid back or wild child?

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pgwithnumber3 · 11/12/2008 21:19

Am interested in the nature of your third baby/child! I am starting to panic thinking that yet to be born DD3 will be a handful as I have had a harder first born and a laid back second. I now expect to have the token wild child.

Is your third child your easiest going or hardest?

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jalopy · 11/12/2008 21:20

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mankyscotslass · 11/12/2008 21:26

My third is my wild child, after 2 laid back children.
I thought I had the whole parenting thing sussed when I fell unexpectedly pregnant with number 3.
Then he arrived. Oh how wrong I was!
He is the hardest work of all of them, did not sleep through til 14mths, and has massive tantrums, but he makes me laugh the most as well, and he is more affectionate than they were at the same stage. I wouldn't be without him, but I think someone up there is having a laugh at my expense.

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randyforsanta · 11/12/2008 21:29

My third was wild as a child ..now 16 hes very lazy laid back

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wideratthehips · 11/12/2008 21:40

if no 3 is going to be wilder than no 2 then i'm done for!
no1 is easy angelic child
no2 is funny bonkers but indifferent to discipline and is rather wild (well hes still a baby really)
no3 needs to be calm!!!!

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SparklyBaubleFeast · 11/12/2008 21:41

no 3 is wild, attention seeking, demanding, but the place would be so quiet without her

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pgwithnumber3 · 11/12/2008 21:46

I just cannot imagine what my third will be like. My two are like chalk and cheese. I am worried that my lovely mild DD2 would be pushed out if I had a demanding DD3, I don't want her to lose out as there will only be 16 months between them.

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midlandsmumof4 · 12/12/2008 01:06

My 3rd child is my wild child. He's my 3rd son, 21 next year, never keeps still and never stops talking. He is however the cleverest and most loving of my four boys. He falls between my 22yr old and my youngest @ 19, they are all very different. Don't worry about anyone being pushed out, as a mum you'll find a happy medium and no-one will lose or feel left out

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