Families with 3 or more children

[Mama9076]

I always thought I would have a big family, at the moment I have two healthy boys and see one more to complete our family. My heart says go for it but my head says can we cope with three, what ifs with health having a baby now I am older. My question is how did you find going from two to three?

I've seen this question on here lots of times and it seems to get an even split of don't do it, and it's the best decision ever!
I'm in the it's the best decision ever group. Love having three, I found the transition from 1 to 2 way harder, 2 to 3 was not as hard. Love each child having 2 siblings, no regrets.

Best thing ever.

Best family size for us but obviously we are all different.

2 - 3 was the easiest transition and also parenting dc3 was enjoyable as we were more relaxed, and didn't fret over things we might have done with dc1. We realised some things don't matter in the bigger scheme of things.

We finally felt complete after number 3.

Easiest transition was 2÷3

As he was a different sec to his girly sisters he cost a lot more ... no regrets though not even now he is taller than me.

I have 4. Found 2-3 the hardest as suddenly we couldn’t have a ratio of 1 adult to 1 child but it wasn’t bad enough to stop me going for no 4! (3 children felt really uneven, 4 balanced it out).

I agree with @Scutterbug that 3 felt uneven and we also settled on 4 . I still found 2-3 the easiest. 3-4 was harder as the others had a lot of needs to be places at that stage.

I found zero kids to one the toughest transition. When going from 2 to 3 you know what to expect to a degree, you are more relaxed, know that everything passes. It's the logistics of meeting everyone's needs and getting everyone where they need to be that's tricky. And it's loud and pretty relentless, but does get easier. For us it is absolutely the right family size, my dh and I and my older two cannot imagine life without our third one.

We'll be having 3 but going from 1-3 so not entirely by choice. 2 feels just right to me, I'm very nervous about having 3.