One & Done: Only child
ferris0906
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When did you decide?
ferris0906
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(I wanted to make this a clicky poll, but the TB had other plans...)
Lots of posts on this board got me wondering:
When did you decide you were one and done?
a. Always knew/before my child was born.
b. After my first and only child was born.
c. I did not actively decide, but instead other factors (age, health) made the decision for me.
d. Still on the fence!
e. Other (please explain).
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Re: When did you decide?
I am squarely in the "b. After my first and only child was born" camp. Before having a baby I thought I really wanted and had to have two. My ideal family model changed after having one!
100% A.
ETA: DH is also A. He actually admitted to me recently that when we got married he didn't think we were going to have any children (I'm not exactly the most maternal person). He is happy to have one, but definitely doesn't want any more.
I assumed I would have two. Then I had one. Lol!
When my daughter was about 2 months old I admitted to myself that I did not want to go through pregnancy, labor, or struggling to breastfeed ever again. As she got older, I r
C. (DH's age and IF factors)
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C. The decision was basically made for me.
DH was always an A, though he would have been willing to have two. (DH is one of those folks who is an only child and who likes being an only.).
I wanted two, but early
I guess we're B.
We'd originally assumed two but many factors piled up after he was born to make us decide we were done. Which sort of sounds like C but we *could* have another probably; we've just decided not to try.
We decided after DS was born.
We'd planned on having 2 (DH thought he wanted 3 and figured it was a good time to talk about it immediately after 62 hours of labor). It wasn't until DS was about a year or 18 months that we officially decided
DH was on the f
We're still deciding, but definitely leaning toward one and done.
We have a really, really difficult child. He is spirited, energetic, intense, very emotional (more so than the average toddler), and has sensory processing disorder and a speech de
Married October 16th, 2010
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Always thought we would have 2 a couple years apart and now if we have another it will be hopefully 3 to 4 years from now...
As most the sleep deprivation in this beginning was rough I'm also breastfeeding which added to that and wo
I guess we are a bit of the first three
A- it was always our plan to have one. But we always left the door open to change our minds after we had one (since everyone said "you just see...you'll feel differently once you have one!")
B- we
A. Before I got married, I wanted 2 biological kids and 1 adopted kid. Then I had a rough pregnancy. The GD diet alone was enough to make me not want to be pregant with a second kid. Add to that IUGR, severe pre-eclampsia,