To ask would you do it all again?

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Having a tough time at the mo with the dc and was takking to a friend about this. We have differing opinions

So imagine you’ve just been transported back to when you were in your late teens (before you had dc). Your dc are all grown up and happy living their lives and you can still see them and be in their lives. Would you, have children again? Obviously you won’t get ‘the same dc again’ as they are adults, but new dc with all that goes with them?

It’s deleted the first line of my post which was

NO WAY!!

My first instinct was no, I am done, but actually after spending 5 or 6 years of studying and travelling, possibly I would. Unless my adult dc had children of their own and then maybe I would be an unfeasibly young hands on grandmother instead.

The fact I could see my current DC makes me say no I wouldn't. I'd had both my kids by the age of 21 so theoretically I was in the situation you describe. I had a good 15 years left to have more but I didn't want to. I love my two but that was enough. I love having my own life now and regardless of me being the age I am or transported back to being 18, I wouldn't want that to change.