How many children do you have and are you happy with that number?

[kitpuss]

Just wondering whether people out there are happy with their 1, 2, 3, 4 or more children.

What are the best and worst things about the number you have, and would you do it all the same again?

I have 4 and am ttc number 5. If i hadnt met DH i would have been happier as a single mum with just my 3 girls but having met DH and with him being so supportive there was definately room for one more (and hopefully that will become two). The dynamics of our family have changed greatly but my eldest three are teens now and love their baby brother and its spurred me on to have just one more.

I have two and I feel sad that I won't have any more- started late,am 46 now.In an ideal world would have met a lovely man at 22 and had four babies ,but I have a lovely kind husband and two beautiful girls and after reading butterball's post I think I really should count my blessings.(I'm so sorry butterball.)

3 boys and we would have more if not for DW's SPD.

1 would have liked another but am too old and and single!

I'd love more but can't realistically afford it

I wanted 7 and had 7.

3 girls here, I don't know about No4 yet, maybe in a few years but TBH I feel utterly blessed already.

I have 1 and would love another but it's not likely to happen so I'm more than happy with my little one as he was a miracle in the first place and fills my life with joy every single day.

One, and yes - I think the positives of more are equally balanced by the negatives (speaking as an only child myself!)

I think I would have been just as happy with more though if it had worked out that way. (FWIW I always admire families with a 'matching set' of 3+ all girls or all boys, it appeals to my sense of neatness. But not enough to try for one myself )

I have one (8 months) and would hope to have one more if finances allow.

4
Totally happy.

Best thing - going out with the dog and children and all the noise that goes with it. We live in chaos which I love.

Worst thing - not enough time to give each one individual time.

I have 5 (although DD is sadly no longer with us).

I would like 6 but do not feel able to put myself and my family (poor buggers) through the emotional rollacoster of pregnancy.

In fact if I am honest I would like to go on and on and on having children. Good job I am 42 and this is not likely

I would very much like to do long term fostering when my little ones are older.

have 2, always thought i would have 4 but dh does NOT want any more.. am hoping that in a few years he will have forgotten how hard work the baby/toddler stage is and be ready for another one or two luckily i have time on my side..

I have one lovely DD.

I'd love another as would DH, but it's seems unlikely now (fertility problems). But like Hulababy I'm not ready to give up yet.

3
One by exp, 2 by DH.
DC2 was the only planned one. Well, we knew we'd have DC3 but not so soon!

We are happy, and couldn't afford another, but we are definitely keeping an open mind and will think about it again in a few years.

The way I see it, I have another 15 years breeding time in me.
And I do prefer even numbers

I don't, in all honesty, feel "done".

I have three, one girl and then two boys. I love them dearly, and they infuriate me daily. I am glad that I have three tbh, seems to have decommisioned the arms race between the 2 older ones. They now only spend a couple of the hours in the day bickering, instead of every available one. Plus they now work together on issues of mischief {aaargh}

If I could time travel,I probably would never have had even one child tbh. I really didn't want children when I fell pg with dd, but what can you do? Once you have one you feel guilty of depriving them of siblings. We have three and I really definately don't want any more.

hi all, i have 5

ds17 (from pr) dd12, dd7, dd6, dd15wks with dh. am very happy and i too don't feel done, i thought i would after this baby but we find ourselves talking about another all the time, so no precautions being taken and we'll see what happens,,.

it has taken us 15 years to get the 4dd and i'm 37 so if it don't happen soon we may have settle with what we've been blessed with.

I do sometimes wonder if we had just stopped after dd1, we would have a 17 and 12 yr olds and i suppose life would be quieter, but among all the madness (and it really isn't that noisy) i just love it and wouldn't change a thing.

Realises that smug post will immediately result in pg and pushes dh for that imaginary vesectomy, god will he even go to the dr's?

I have 2 and would love at least one more but not for a few years (can't afford any more childcare costs at the mo!)

hello (1st ever mums net message). i have 3 and have just found out number 4 is on the way!!hmm( hence the reason i have joined mumsnet) 1,2and3 are fab I'm enjoying it and managing ok ish having my normal daily ups and downs. we have always planned to have 4 but am having a shakey moment - will I cope? - mostly physically coz have had others close together and approaching 40 .

I have 2 and would love another but sadly dh doesn't feel the same. I understand all his sensible arguments for stopping at 2 and do feel lucky to have our 2 super ds's but our family just doesn't feel complete to me. I'm getting on a bit and am doing my best to accept that we won't have any more.

I have 2 and sometimes think I'd like to have a third,then other days I'm glad I only have 2, lol

Dh won't entertain the idea of a third child and to be honest my girls are happy and healthy and we don't have the room for another baby, so we're sticking with 2.

If I could do it all again I'd have them closer together, I have a big age gap which can be a pain at times.

I've got two DD's with a small age gapo between them. TBH at times the last few years have been awful, stressful, exhausting - they are 21 months and 3 yrs.

That said, if I was younger (I'm 41) and had the luxury of time to space them out a bit better, I'd have another.

I have two and am very happy with that number.

I think that DH would like another one, but I don't.

I have one toddler who I completely adore. I have my ideal family, the three of us. It feels so right, so complete.
The best part - the intimacy. The worst part - have yet to discover.
Yes, I would do the same again in a parallel universe.