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How many siblings did you have and how many DC do you have

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MarigoldExpress · 06/09/2025 21:31

Just curious really, survey style. How many siblings did you have growing up/what number sibling were you, and how many DC did you end up having or not having? (Or would have liked)

I'm youngest of 3 and have 2 DC and would like a 3rd. I know a few families of 3 where the eldest then stopped at 1DC, the middle stopped at 2 DC and the 3rd had or wanted 3! I'm interested in how kids experience different size family dynamics!

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SmeII · 06/09/2025 23:04

6 siblings.
0 DC.

There is a correlation between these two things.

Tormundsbeard · 06/09/2025 23:10

I sibling
2 DC

Endofyear · 06/09/2025 23:21

I'm the youngest of 3 girls and I have 5 sons ☺️

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saltnpepperchips · 06/09/2025 23:23

My parents were both onlies and didn’t like it so had 3 of us (they wanted 4 but sadly lost the last baby around 12 weeks are were unable to have another) I disliked the sibling dynamics and stuck with one child. He does have plenty of cousins he’s close to though! And I love being an auntie. I do wonder how many (if any) he will have!

Izzythezizzy · 06/09/2025 23:31

Three siblings, one DD, DH has one sister who he is not very close with.

It’s interesting the choices people make in relation to their own childhood - I had a decent childhood but am ‘one and done’ by choice. 99% sure we wont have anymore. Being the the oldest I saw how stressful four children were, that combined with not being that close to my siblings and realising at a later age that I would have been so much closer to my parents had it just been me (maybe one more!) helped make my decision to have one.

PippetyPoppetyPie · 06/09/2025 23:41

This is interesting!!
Im the eldest of 3. One sister, one brother.
I had 3, two boys and then a girl (opposite way around to my parents)
My younger sister has two girls
My younger brother has nine and doesn’t want children. (Probably a good thing as he was a shit as a child!)

zaazaazoom · 06/09/2025 23:51

1 sibling
4 kids
Perfect both times

Wincher · 07/09/2025 00:01

It’s my theory that people often want a different number of kids to the family they grew up in. I’m an only, DH is one of three, we have two kids. But then again I have plenty of friends who are one of two and have two children! I have a few friends who have three but by far the majority of families I know have two children.

Daisy617 · 07/09/2025 00:24

2 siblings, 1 DS which is perfect for us.

The poster above may be on to to something about wanted different things to what you experienced growing up.

My 2 siblings and I have had very little to do with each other since we were children. We go years with no contact between the 3 of us. Maybe subconsciously that’s why I only wanted 1 DS as I never really felt much benefit from siblings.

My DS has no cousins and never will have any. Between DH and I we have 5 siblings all now 40+ and none of them had DC.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 07/09/2025 01:31

None and none.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 07/09/2025 01:47

0 siblings
1 DS 1DSS (so 2 really)

Chillyourbeansweeman · 07/09/2025 01:48

1/4. 2

augustusglupe · 07/09/2025 01:55

I was the youngest of 4. I have 1 daughter.

TheMadGardener · 07/09/2025 01:58

I am the elder of 2 sisters and I have 2 daughters. I am very close to my sister and I'm glad my daughters also have a close bond.

My DSis has no children.

bellabelly · 07/09/2025 02:02

Zero siblings, 4 dcs (2xtwins). I wanted 3 kids in an ideal world but never wished for twins!

31stAugust2025 · 07/09/2025 06:28

1 of of four.
Sibling 1 - two children
Sibling 2 - one child
Sibling 3 - two children.

I have one child - had I been able to conceive easier possible would have had another but I have my lot now.

Not at all close to my siblings. I am much younger so basically grew up an only most of the time.

Meadowfinch · 07/09/2025 06:33

I had five, 4 sisters, 1 brother. I'm close to two of them. I have one child

My childhood was not fun, never enough of anything, so I've ensured my ds has had all the things I did not, and is loved and properly provided for.

He is much happier and more confident as a result.

Eenameenadeeka · 07/09/2025 06:36

I was the middle child of 3, and I had 4.

CloverPyramid · 07/09/2025 06:56

I have an only child by choice, and wish I had been an only child myself. I had a younger brother and we made each others’ childhoods miserable.

My husband is one of 6 and wasn’t fussed whether we had one or two. He adamantly did not want more than two, though.

Rocknrollstar · 07/09/2025 06:57

We are both the middle of three and had two DC. we stopped at two because we couldn’t afford four and would NEVER have had three.

GentleSheep · 07/09/2025 07:02

Only child here, no kids.

mrssunshinexxx · 07/09/2025 07:05

I have 2 sisters , I’m the yoingest
i I have 3 dc , 2 girls and 1 boy

TorroFerney · 07/09/2025 07:07

No siblings and have one child. Husband is also an only child.

JaninaDuszejko · 07/09/2025 07:23

I think if you are unhappy as a child then you do something different to you parents (my Mum was an only, she had 4DC). If you are happy you try and replicate as much as circumstances allow.

I'm the eldest of 4, DH the youngest of 3. Both of us had happy childhoods (mine was fairly idyllic, grew up on a big farm, we had plenty food, money and attention from both our parents). We have 3DC. DH's siblings have 2 and 0. My siblings have 0, 3, 0.

Of all my friends the biggest factor seems to be where they live, all the people who live in the south have no more than 2DC, in the north and Scotland it varies much more and there are lots of larger families because the cost of housing is not as restrictive.

autienotnaughty · 07/09/2025 07:38

I am the youngest of three with my elder sisters being 6 and 8 years older than me. They were awful to me I felt vey unwanted and I was kind of forgotten by my parents too.
i swore I would never do that. I had two dd, but then when I remarried dh and I wanted a child so with a 13 and 15 year age gap I had my third. We did consider a fourth but I found being an older mom tough. Dd is like an only child really and her relationship with her siblings is more like very close aunts than sisters. She is adored by everyone though.

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