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LOL....mine at 19 is just now starting to seem human again after 2 years where I was not sure who was living in my house and what they had done with my DD! A year living away has helped immensely!
Yeah~sounds good living away!
It's really me. He's a sweetheart. I just want my little boy back not this grown up man! I have to try letting go better!
I would have one more. I have 2 biologically and 1 "step" (but I hate the word, I've been there since she was an infant and she doesn't FEEL like a "step" anything)...
I would love to have one pregnancy that wasn't full of stress and drama.
I would love to have full enjoyment of the first years, without stress and drama. I would love to experience all of the stages just once more, especially with the appreciation I now have for how quickly it slips away!
My first pregnancy was unintended and I was young, single, college student. My whole family was disappointed in me and my first years as a mom were largely full of upheaval beyond the norm. I was immature and sooo not ready. My "baby" is 17 and there are a lot of things I wish I'd done differently with him.
With my second I tried to do things differently, married for the wrong reasons (because I wanted another child, mainly!) but still ended up with a lot of stress, unable to enjoy pregnancy due to issues with my then husband... (his issues, drinking, job loss, etc). I was worrying about the rent and bills constantly and the night I went into labor, he had taken off in the car and wrecked it (and it was "new" to us, awesome, and we'd only had it for 2 months!) and landed in jail for DUI. His mother bailed him out in time for our son to be born. Lucky for him it was a 32 hour labor!?
I am now in the best relationship I have ever been in in my life. Healthy, committed, balanced, honest. I now finally understand what it is like to want to have a child WITH a certain person, vs just wanting a child. To have a child born out of the love of both parents... to share that experience with a true and equal partner. Would be awesome, and sadly, it ain't happenin'. If I could I would though.
My grandmother had 13 and the kids never had enough attention or anything else for that matter!!! Even if you have all the money in the world - would anyone have enough attention for LOADS of children? Its all very well bring them into the world - but to raise them well, takes attention and more attention. Very difficult for any mere human being to pour out themselves, daily, into loads of childrens lives. I would admire anyone who could mother 10 plus children WELL.
I only have two....I am blessed! If I had had more I would have been even more blessed. But I am thankful and I think we should all, just do our very best with the children we are fortunate enough to be 'loaned'.
One is not ideal...I love having siblings and cherish those realtionships, I'd like my children to have the same experience. Two is okay, but with the hypothetical limitless resources and energy hypothetical, more would be better. With three, there is often an odd man out (part of my childhood, before my sister was born, was spent being the odd one out since I had twin brothers). Which makes four a nice, round number.
I said 4. I have 2 now and that is perfect for us. But with money to buy a bigger house and car, and time for them all to be in activities, I think 4 would be fun.
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