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When does all the talk of babies stop?!

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Needmorewine · 12/02/2016 19:48

We have one DD 2.10. We are very happy and plan to stick with just one for the foreseeable future. No reason I can articulate particularly well - I just don't have that urge and love no longer being in the baby stage, enjoying time to myself when she is at pre school, enjoying doing my post grad. However I feel very much in the minority, I honestly am not joking when I say I have not met ONE other parent who plans to stick at one. Feel I am fielding questions about no.2 off all the time - and DD is now the only one out of our friendship group with no siblings - everyone has either had no 2 already or is pregnant. I'm quite a private person and I don't feel like I need to keep justifying our decision. But I don't want to be rude or negative about having a second, I think bigger families are lovely it's just not for us!! Anyone had to deal with anything similar ?

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originalmavis · 12/03/2016 15:18

Dear God I'm pushing 50 and a new colleague asked if I was 'having any more'. The very thought!

Needmorewine · 14/03/2016 10:36

original you should definitely take that as a compliment Grin

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed it makes me feel better in a funny sort of way am not the only one !!

Flowers to all of you for whom having one was not something you always planned and have had to deal with upsetting and insensitive questioning.

It's such a personal topic I do struggle to understand why for some people it seems to be just a way of making concersation...what happened to "so where are you going on holiday this year" ?!

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