After reading “Making Babies” this past week, it really made me start thinking about whether or not we are ready to add a third child to our family. It doesn’t help that one of my friends just had her third baby girl or that others in my life are pregnant with #3 right now! Someone said that “3 is the new 2” and I wondered how true that is.
Are you seeing a trend toward 3-child families? Do you think 3 is becoming more common than 2? I know many people who have 2 kids and just “know” they are done having kids. I don’t know how they know but they DO. I don’t know so I guess I’m in Baby Utopia.
It’s odd that I’m even debating the idea, since we had so much trouble getting pregnant with Elijah. In between my two children I had two miscarriages and the entire time I wasn’t on any form of birth control so to say that I have trouble getting pregnant is pretty legitimate.
After I had my daughter (almost 2 years ago now, gasp!) I felt like a horrible person going on birth control (my periods were awful, that was why, obviously not for birth control lol) so now I am thinking of going off and seeing what fate/God/the universe has in store for us.
BUT, the idea of adding a third child is kind of scary. We’ll be outnumbered. Anyone who has three kids of course says it’s wonderful (who would say, “oh it was a bad decision” about a third child in their life, right?) but what’s the real cost? Is there a cost, or is it the best thing to add another child into a loving home to love?
So many things to think about! I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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