If you have 3 children - did you find life with two serenely blissful and easy?

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Or did you find it challenging and do it anyway?

We're talking about it but am a bit scared as life with two children aged nearly 2 and nearly 4 somedays can be...tricky.

But have just stopped breastfeeding and the hormones are kicking in and we've always said we want 3-4. (That has been revised down to 3 in the last couple of years.) Just wondering whether to wait until it gets easier - or is that just masochism, should we just grasp the plaster and rip it off, IYSWIM and get all the sleeplessness out of the way now, rather than stagger it?

Thoughts appreciated because we're dithering...

I have a 9 year gap between 2 and 3 so in a way it was like starting all over again.
Going from 1 to 2 was harder, 2.10 gap, and I was more tired and fraught.
Will have a 2 gap between 3 and 4 so will be permanently knackered again and wistfully thinking back to the days when there was only 1.

seriously though however hard it got I wouldn't be without any of them any the joy of a larger family far outweighs the stress of it all.