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Unplanned 4th child - advice please

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user590 · 06/07/2018 14:42

I have just done a pregnancy test and it has come back positive. I am completely thrown. We already have three children 9,7 and 4. Youngest will be starting school in September and I was looking forward to having more time to myself, the next chapter for us as a family, with the kids being that bit older we can travel more etc etc. We could afford a 4th, our house isn't really big enough for a 4th (3 bed) though and we already have the 7 seater car. But we would literally be starting from scratch all over again. I also worry if we could cope with 4, 3 is already hard work and takes a lot of organising etc. When my youngest was younger a couple of years ago we chatted about a 4th but came to the conclusion we wouldn't have another.

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AngkorWaat · 09/07/2018 20:54

Hey hope you’re doing ok. I’m in exactly the same situation but my 3 are 11, 9 and 15 months. We’re in a 3 bed house but have a 7 seater car already. I just don’t think I’ve got it in me to go through it all again, and I’m not sure it would be fair on the other kids; my time feels stretched split between them as it is.

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