Are you done having kids?

[Jejune]

Or do you intend to have more? Do you have a time frame for it, if you want more?

[Tlee]

We are done. I sometimes wish we could have another but there are so many other things I want to do. I was lucky enough to spend the first few years of my kids lives at home with them. Now I am working so hard to get a degree and then a career. I don't want to take care of a baby again in the middle of that. My husband agrees with me, although he has gotten the baby bug for a second or two just like me. Then we snap out of it and say NO WAY, lol.

Maybe down the road we will consider adopting, who knows.

[Brooke]

We are D-O-N-E with a capital NO MORE! :rofl :rofl

Eric actually still wants a 3rd baby. I always tell him to go find a second wife. :giggle I've learned over the years that I just generally like kids better after they're about 10-12 months old. Granted, I love them, but I don't do well with babies. I love the ages my two are at (2 and 5) and I don't want to go back to newborn.

I'm pretty selfish about it, but I know my limits. I don't think I'd be able to mentally and emotionally handle another one. I'm now on the Mirena IUD which is good for 5 years. If at that point we still have decided that we're not having more (which I'm sure will be the case), then we'll probably do something more permanent.

[Jo]

I think we are done. I am having a hard time with it though. A part of me is glad to move beyond having kids and a part of me is finding it hard to let go. At this point, Dave really doesn't want another one and I can go either way. Another child or not isn't a deal breaker so things could change. The only way I will call us done is when Dave gets off his bum, gets the V and he has no swimmers. Until then, all I can say is that I think we are done.

[Jejune]

We're going to have one more. I cannot yet say when, as, rather than a time frame, we have a series of goals we need to reach before we try for a fourth baby. I realize four is quite a lot of kids, but we always wanted a large family. Tonight, though, as my kids drive me nuts, I'm not sure I want the ones I've got! ;)

Most of the goals are financial, but I also need to get further in my education or edit my novel or something. I also want to get myself back to a point where I have maternity clothes and stuff. We need a larger home and a larger car, too.

[Shasta]

I'm almost positive we are done. I didn't have a tubal this time though, because I wasn't 100% certain and I didn't want to regret it later. I'm going to get the Mirena IUD in a few weeks.....we'll see where things are in a few years but for several reasons, I'm pretty sure we are done.

[Jenny]

YES! I am done, however, I get massive baby fever all the time

[Christine]

We are very much done.

Dave had the big snip several months after Danielle was born. I still get twinges of baby fever, but I really can't imagine my family any more complete than it is.

[Beka]

Yes we're done- i know practically, financially and emotionally i'd be pushed too far with a 5th and the pregnancy would (they assure me) push my kidney's that bit too far if i risked another after Loki but like Jo i am struggling to let go, i have really found my mothering "niche" with Loki and i can't help feeling i've missed out not being this confident with my older 3 but i do accept it's time to move beyond the baby phase and onto family growing up rather than growing family if that makes sense

so yep we're done but at the moment it's taking some adjustment to accept that even though it has been largely my decision.

[Erika]

Nope, not done yet. We will try for at least one more when Sasha is 2 (probably). We will revisit it then. I never intend TTC again but instead with start taking metformin and see what happens.

Sometimes I do think that maybe one will be enough as I just don't have the baby bug right now and babies are HARD!!! The newborn phase was the hardest thing I've ever done and I'm a little scared of having a baby with colic as bad as Sasha's was or a baby who will end up in SCBU again.

But then I realise that I would love a brother or sister for Sasha. Heck, maybe even a 3rd depending on our financial situation LOL

[JoMama]

Yup. My husband had the big V when our younger son was 3 months old. We have a litany of reasons, not the least of which is that we have no desire to be outnumbered by these little buggers... ;)

[Corey]

We're done - Eric had the snip a month after Z was born. I had the baby bug for about a year or so after Z was born but not anymore! I am really enjoying them being older and wouldn't want to go back to baby days.

[Val]

I think we're done, but being at the ripe old age of 25 and 26 nothing permanent has been done so there's always a chance for a change of heart.

[Lori]

Hopefully, we aren't done. We definitely plan on TTC a second child, within the next year (and hopefully within the next six months), and then after that we'll see. Even if we start TTC in a few months, I'll be 30 when we have our second assuming all goes well, so if we do decide to try again after that, we'd probably have a much smaller age gap, because I'd like to be completely done having kids by 33 or 34.

I've always wanted three or four kids, but Sean likes the idea of two. I think we might be able to compromise on three, but at this point, unless we had twins, I don't think we'd have four. I really don't think I have three more pregnancies left in me! Plus, given the kind of person I am, I really do think that if I had four, I'd start losing track of them, since I sometimes have enough trouble with one. So we're definitely trying for two, and we may try for a third, if having our second goes smoothly.

[Sam]

I go back and forth on this.

Jasmine is the worlds best baby,she sleeps right through already,she sleeps pretty much all day,she is content and she is never any trouble. I never get stressed with her because she is just so darn easy. That makes me think hmm maybe another one would be good because right now life has got no harder what so ever with number 4 in the house.

On the other hand I know she will grow up and may/most likely become harder work and that is when I think I may struggle more. I am great with newborns,but toddlers not so much.

I had a rough pregnancy with hyperemesis. I also have OCD which can get severe during pregnancy. This time it didn't but the OCD hit me PP instead. I also have two boys with special needs and at times life can be extremely hard work.

Practically I guess I know I should be done,emotionally I am not yet ready to say that.

[Kristi]

I think we are done but I am not sure. A part of me is so relieved not to have to get up in the middle of the night anymore and to be almost done with diaper changing and feeding babies and things like that. But then again I am sad to think that I might never have another baby. That I won't be pregnant again or give birth or hold my newborn baby. :( But we'll see as of this moment I don't want anymore for awhile. Tim is definetly done as of now but I am kind of hoping he will come around to having a fourth.

I know however many babies we do have I will always miss pregnancy and the newborn stage. But I know that does not mean I should keep having babies.

Part of the reason I want another is because the boys leave Isabella out alot and I would love her to have a younger sibling to play with. But if we do decide we are done I think that I would be okay with that.

Most of it depends on if Tim comes around and how I feel about it at the time if he does. Also on finances and things like that too,

I am 23 and he is 26 so we are not ready to say with certainty that we are done. That is why I got the IUD after having Isabella.

If we do decide to go for another it will be when Izzy is about 3 or 4.

[MathSpeak]

I most certainly am ;)

[Jurgita]

We still one to have one more, or two, I want to have another one before I turn 30.

[Mu Shu]

We plan to have another in three to four years, and probably another three to four years after that.

[Maleah]

We're expecting our 6th and last. No more babies after this one! I am not sure what we're going to do about it, but something will be done.

I knew I was in trouble when we brought Gabriel home and I couldn't imagine never bringing another baby home. I am looking forward to having a newborn in the house, but at the same time I am looking forward to getting past the baby stage.

[Amy J]

we're not done quite yet. I want 1 more and he doesn't want anymore so we're compromising! LOL

[giffy]

We're done. MrGiff has had the snip, so barring major catastophes that's it for us. We thought we'd only have two, but I really wasn't ready to give up that part of my life and we ended up with R. Now my family feels complete, and as much as she's sunny little thing and an absolute joy, I can't imagine feeling the need to have another one!

I do, however, look forward to more nieces and nephews, and I am truly pumped about my friends' impeding babies!

[Mary]

Sometimes I do think that maybe one will be enough as I just don't have the baby bug right now and babies are HARD!!! The newborn phase was the hardest thing I've ever done and I'm a little scared of having a baby with colic as bad as Sasha's was or a baby who will end up in SCBU again.

That's how I was with Madalyn. She had colic and it was really really stressful. Then when she grew out of it she turned into the world's easiest, most mature baby and then it was like, why would I want to start over again at square one? That's why we were strongly considering only having one. I STILL hadn't gotten the baby bug yet in any way, shape or form when Madalyn was almost 2 and I got pg with Johnny.

As for us -- YES, we are definitely, 150% D-O-N-E after our new little one arrives. We have gone from considering stopping at one to having three. That's a big switch! Honestly I think a fourth would kill us, or at least dh. ;) His age is a factor, too. I mean, he's 45. At some point we need to stop having kids so we can get them out of the house before he dies. LOL I feel ready to be done, too. Dh was supposed to get the snip after JZ was born and I really didn't feel that anxious for him to get it done. I was totally okay that he never got around to it. Now, though, it's like I'm more excited for him to go have it done than he is! I want it done and I want it done, like, yesterday. This pregnancy has been tough and I have no desire to ever go through it again. I am SO totally over the gestating thing.

[Renita]

We plan on having one more.....just not sure when. I would say in the next few years. After that, we are done!!! I said I wanted to be done by age 30.

[KERRY508]

yes, we are done. We have 3 year old twins. Since we had a boy and girl, and my chances of having twins again, is 1 in 12, since they are fratural.
I had this new tubal done, called essure. There was no cutting, back to work the next day, no pain.

I would have loved 4 or 5 kids, but how can anyone afford that.

kerry

[Erika]

Mary, Sasha is the same. She is so easy now and such a happy baby. But she has tough nights and I'm tired right now.

That said, Tuesday I was looking after another baby. Ben was the easiest baby and just gorgeous and it really was ok looking after him and Sasha. So I think that definately sowed the seed that yes, we will have another one. Just not right now :giggle

[malcontent]

I hope not, because I only have one child. However, my son is about 30 months old and I am still not ready to get pregnant again. Pregnancy is very hard on me, and I'm considering waiting until my son is school-age before I have a second child. I don't think I could care for a toddler/pre-schooler while in a barely-functional state due to constant nausea.

My son also has language delays and I'd like him to become more verbal before I have another child. If I had a baby in the house, I don't feel that I would be able to give my son as much attention as he needs.

[Danielle]

All done here!

[jane]

I am in the strangest position of being all done with having babies but ttc anyway . steve is waiting for hs appoinment for the big V so we are definatly done .

and I am happy with that I was terrified for the first year of finns life and then I realized I can just enjoy watching them all grow and the sence of pride i have in seeing my child start heading off into the world fuull of ambition and confidence and the skills she needs to acheive whatever she wants is amazing