<breathes> to all those who HE 4 kids <starts to hyperventilate>....

[sorkycake]

How do you you cope? We're going for no.4 and I'm starting to wee myself with worry over coping tbh.
I've always wanted 4, don't know why, can't explain it, just the way I've always seen things. Dh has now come round and agreed, and aside from the car issue, which I'm sorting by buying a grand voyager, I'm wondering how I'll HE 4 of them!
How do you do it? Is 4 a complete nightmare?
Mine are 5.9, 4.1, 12mo atm.

How do you manage at the moment, mine are around the same ages as yours and I think the eldest two would be OK but I'm worried about the littlest....

See that's it exactly, the older two are great! They're very close in age, play wonderfully together etc. The little one is very attached, still bf and becoming less demanding but still....you know. I do want another one though. I know it's hard having 2 close together, I've done it before, but then there was only 2 of them, now there would be 4. But then I don't want to a) leave a bigger gap between 3/4 and b) wait too much longer 'cos I'm not getting any younger.
Aarggh! decisions decisions

ooh are you pg 3d?

I'm due with number 4 shortly and my others are 6, 4.5 and 2. The toddler is demanding but I try to keep him occupied with his own 'work'. Over the last few months we have moved to a more autonomous way of learning as I realised they were learning just as much that way with some formal stuff in the mornings. I think (hope?) this will be easier to cope with when the baby arrives than trying to stick to a formal curriculum where I would probably lose my sanity.

sorkycake - sadly no, I also wanted 4 but dh not so keen, when I fell with number 3 I thought he'd have to agree to number 4 now, but he disagreed and 'sorted it out'

I've got 4. Actively educating the oldest two, the third seems to be picking up loads by osmosis because she wants to copy her big sisters, and my fourth is still a baby, really.

It's not been a nightmare so far - hard at times, yes, but mostly a lot of fun.

I have to say although I have only been He'ing one for a short while, I did school the other 2 and the stress from the school runs and the afterschool clubs at different times and especially when they were in different schools was horrendous. God I wish I had know about HE'ing then.

Hmm thank you all for very interesting replies.
I'll keep you posted should anything change