We have one LO and are definitely open to more in the future, but we don't have a set or ideal number of children. We're taking it one at a time and keeping an open dialogue. It seems like everyone else knows how many children they want, though! Anyone else being flexible about it?
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Yup I constantly ask my hubby and he never gives me a clear answer. We both want a lot but he def doesn't have a number. The last time I asked him he goes "why stop a good thing.". Ummmmm I don't want to be the next duggar family. Ahhjh.
Buti ideally I want four. -
we're trying to be open-minded about it too! we knew for sure we wanted more than 1, but we don't know if we want 2 or 3... it depends on a lot of things, and right now i feel like i'm happy with 2, but we're leaving the door open for 3 just in case...
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Us! We have an approximate number, but we use NFP, so we are open to more!
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My max is 5, but I'm flexible with how many kids we end up with within that maximum.
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@LovelyPlum: We use it, too! We're Catholic and want to be open to children in our marriage, but even outside of that we just don't know what our "right" or ideal number will be in the end. I ask DH how many kids would be his ideal, and he sys "I dunno, however many we have." We still discern timing and whether to TTC/NTNP/TTA based on our life circumstances and family/individual needs (we're avoiding for now) , but we just don't know if "perfect" for us will be one child, two, three, four, or even more.
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Our ideal was 2 pre-baby. But we we've been reassessing things since.
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we've agreed to take it one kid at a time. who knows what life will bring us in a few years
our stock answer when people ask how many we want is 12. the looks on people's faces... priceless!
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We dont know exactly, we'll have #2 and then go from there. We both come from families with 3 kids so we both lean toward that.
DH said something about "if we end up having like 5 kids," and I almost passed out, lol
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We were set on one and done and now we're both not sure. If we didn't love city living, we'd have like 4/5.
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@LittleFox: same as your response to lovelyplum
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We don't have a set number, but I think all of our friends do.
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Nope! We're definitely taking things one at a time.
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We don't have a concrete plan. More like a concrete age when we want to be done having babies.
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We have no idea!! I think we will decide after each one if we should do it again!
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We've kind of decided to see how this one goes, even though we are both pretty committed to having more than 1 since we both really enjoyed having a sibling growing up (and now!). We think 2 or 3, but who knows!!
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@LittleFox: we feel similarly. Iwas actually on BCP for about ten years, but NFP just feels so much more "right" for us
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@Dandelion: Yeah, I want to be done by early 30s. I'm 27 now, so that leaves time for a couple more, at least!
We don't have a set number. "2 or 3" is our standard response. It all depends on how everything plays out.
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Yes, we're flexible, because we don't really know what our financial situation will be like in the years to come and that's what will likely dictate how big our family is. Ideally I'd like to have 3 or 4 and be done by 35, but who knows. (I'm 27 now and pregnant with our first.)
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I am done at two but my husband wants more! He doesn't mind stopping at two but he does mention every now and then when we should try for #3 (he needs to hold his horses as I'm still pregnant with #2!)
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Um.. He wants more and I don't. Lo is 12 weeks so we aren't committed either way.
I love the idea of having an only child. We've always talked about it in terms of how many we could afford and responsibly parent and right now, my answer to that is 1.
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We're taking it one child at a time. We love being parents!
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@Dandelion: us too.
I'm 25 now. I'd like to not have any kids after 30/32. If we did them 1-2 years apart, we could have dh's magic number of 5...but I doubt that'll happen, because 4 seems like plenty. But, who knows!
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Before we had DD we always said two, but now we might be open to being one and done. We've decided to not make any decisions yet though and to revisit it later.
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I'm sure we will have more than one, but not sure how many! DH keeps saying he wants 4, but I would think we'll have 2 or 3.
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We don't have a number...but at least 2 and no more than 5. Definitely depends on our financial situation, too...
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We are not at all sure. Depending on a great variety of factors, we might stop at the two we have or have up to 4. We shall see!
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My grandparents didn't. We aren't sure.
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