how many siblings do you have? and has this effected how many children you want to have ?

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just interested if this could be part of why people want the amount of children they do ?

crayon how do you find three? When we have dss it doen't make much difference on having two but just wondered when it comes to rooms and cars etc how it was? DH is worries we will have twins and end up with four! (five with dss!) My dad is a twin, my sisters are twins and my mums has twins her side too so I suppose it could be possible?

mumsnet have chosen my thread as disscusion of the day !!! pbe waves her trunk around

thats where i found it!

i have 3 sisters.i have 3 children and would love a fourth!dh is one of 6 but ive said no no no! to 6!
i love having 4 of us,we did fight etc but it was great in that if 2 of us fell out there was always others!!!

I'm an only and it definitely made me want a larger family.

I have my dts (6 at the end of December) but would love another 2 (at once again if fate would have it!)

Unfortunately I am now not only an only but single with it so it looks like I shall just have to settle on my two boys - which is fine compensation.

Four seemed such a nice number though.

The number of siblings I have definately affected the number of children I have.

I grew up in a large family of step siblings as well as my own brothers and sisters - we were not allowed friends around as no room, could never do any activities and had to constantly supervise the younger ones.

I only ever wanted one child and thats all we have had. DS is nearly five and I have no plans to change my mind despite people constantly asking when the next one will come along.

I am the eldest of 2 and have always felt very much overshadowed by my little brother. My mother was also the eldest of 2 and is still horribly jealous of her little brother, so I could never understand why she did the same.

DH is the youngest of 3 boys and wasn't bothered, so we have ended up with 5.

We had 4 in one go (within 5.5 years) and then a late bonus DD 15.5 years later

(Now wondering whether we "ought" to have another one to keep her company?)

I'm an only child and I currently think I'll stick with one dd.

I'm the eldest of 3. I had 2 younger brothers, one died aged 10. Only have one child. Loved being a girl among boys, but not so sure if I liked being the eldest. Don't think the number of siblings has affected my choice of having just the one child. I do feel the big gap between me and my brother - only in terms of thinking, oh R would be ....age now - he was 3 yrs younger and I imagine we'd have been close as grown ups

I am one of five ( 3 brothers and 1 sister),and I am no. 3 (eldest daughter). I have one oncle with 4 DSs and 4 DDs and an untie with 5, 4 DDs and 1 DS. I love big families, I don't have my family near me, but I missed the fights and arguments for the bathroom saturday night.
I have 2 DDs, and I don't think there would be any more, no because I don't want any more, just because of my age, and because I am tired of paying over half my salary in childcare, and I can't wait when DD2 starts full time school, so my salary will go all to our pockets, but another 2 years for that( well just 21 months )

Dh and I were both one of 2, he the elder & I the younger. However, he was sent away to boarding school and seems to have blotted out memories of family life. We weren't close to our siblings as children and now they both live in different countries. Dh never wanted any children but, ironically, he has 3, our 2 dc's and a dd from a previous relationship, who was 12 when our dd was born. I wanted 2 & it took an awful lot to persuade dh - then he became depressed after ds was born, which was hard - although thankfully he's OK now.

It made me sad to hear people say how they liked the rough and tumble and noise of large families as dh can't cope at all with children being silly or making noise ie being children (which obviously he's inherited from his parents, who sent one away to avoid this) and this afternoon, for instance, he hid himself away upstairs because the dc's were being too rowdy for him.

god bless you with 9 kids,
im one of 4 and now on my 6th child not having any more after this one being sterilised due to health risks.

im one of 4 and on my 6th which is what i wanted to have before i turned to age 40 and i have achieved it but not quite 40 yet lol

I have one sibling, and will have 2 children only (one already, one on the way), but just can't face being pg again!

Dh is one of 4, and would like a 3rd child, but he can't face me being pg again either.

Think we'll make up the numbers with dogs - so much easier.

I have one sis and so does DH. I am preg with DC2. Would kind of like 3 but will probably stop at 2 because of age/finances/house size, etc.

juule - 9! Wow. Respect to you

Santasmissyontheside - sorry, I have only just found your message . Three is great - DS1 was at school yesterday while we had a family lunch at home without him and it was horrible; the family just felt too small. I would say the extra one does make a big difference, it changes the feel of the family and things seem more chaotic

I'm an only child and only ever expected to have one daughter.

3 sons later...

I'm one of 2 and dh is one of 3, but we only have 1 and are planning on keeping to one. It depends on so much more. My sister and I fought alot as children but get on ok now, I don't want that fighting for my dd so I only want 1 (there are many other reasons - financial, childcare etc for stopping at 1 for us too) but it can't have affected my sister the same way as she has 3. My dh got on better with his cousins than his siblings so theres another reason for him to want 1. We do talk about having another occaisionally but we're really happy as we are.