How many children do you have ........and why?

We had two DS and DD - 19 months between them... We tried for a third but it didn't happen - hey ho that's life! I'm more than happy with my lot and am now relishing being a Grandma

We have one, our daughter. The reason we only had one was due to dire financial problems when we were younger. I always had to work and it was difficult to find someone to look after her and we had all sorts of problems. I regret it now but it's a pointless exercise. DD can't have been unhappy as an only child as she has only had one herself, a daughter. I think this was due to the same reasons that we had only one - finances.

We have two, a boy and a girl. Like Lona, we took a chance and DD was born just 14 months after DS. It was a lovely happy accident, though - hard work, but all the stages kind of came along together. I didn't have to get past the nappy stage and then start it all over again!
I would have liked more, but we thought at the time that we couldn't really afford it. Now I think how stupid we were because we would have managed! I had a very early miscarriage when DD was 3. We'd gone out on an unexpectedly beautiful, sunny afternoon to a local riverside beach, water calm as a millpond, DC paddling (very shallow, barely above their knees), when DD fell and went under, got up, fell again, disappeared, didn't get up. DH tearing into water fully clothed, shoes and socks, the lot. Straight to the spot where we last saw her, pulled her out. When the tide went out we saw a huge clump of seaweed in that spot, which she had obviously got tangled up in. Anyway, that night, the pregnancy was no longer

I had two - DS and DD with less than two years between. That was enough for me as I was the fourth of five and had always wished I was an only one so that I didn't have to have "hand-me-downs"! When I started at Grammar School, aged just 11, I had:

A pair of my eldest sister's cast off shoes (with an insole and heel grips to keep them on) and her old satchel (she was 12 years older than me)
My older brother's blazer and gaberdine (7 years older)
My other sister's school blouse (9 years older)
A cardigan my Mum knitted for me - something new!

I think I could safely be described as "second-hand rose" but we were not a wealthy family and my Mum did the best she could for us all. That experience made me determined that no child of mine would ever have to go through that sort of experience so we limited our family to make sure we could afford to avoid that. No regrets at all. They light up my life still.

We have 3.... two dds to Ex dh then remarried and had ds, but 6 year gap between him and his nearest sister. I wish we had gone for 4 but circumstances were all wrong at that time. Ds being the youngest and only boy tended to be spoiled by his sisters. A younger sibling would have been good.

We had 3 because I had always wanted 3. I am still so glad we had them all.
Several of my friends had 4 but I knew my limits

I had an unexpected multiple into the mix, which threw our plans right out of the window. Nice, but there are not multiples on my side of the family, and we didnt know there was on his until several years later.

I had my DD (planned) and then took a chance (it won't happen to me!) and became pregnant with my ds! He was born 11 months 2 weeks later on the same day, so they are both the same age for exactly 2 weeks every year!
It was extremely hard, dd nearly died at 2 months old whilst I was pregnant, but it turned out to be the best 'mistake' I've ever made!

I so nearly went for a fourth after my 'Lammas Lamb' was born.Sometimes I wish We had gone for it.