Do you guys ever feel like having BILLIONS of children?!

Lately I've been thinking I really would like to have another baby as soon as Abryn stops nursing, which hopefully won't happen until she's at least a year and a half.

At first I thought my plan would be to wait a long long time before having anymore kids. I seriously was considering something like eight years.

But Axyn gets home soon (Jan. 12!) and he will be home for a visit for Abryn's first Christmas and I just feel so much more love now that I get to see him every week and sometimes I feel like having 12 more babies with him.

Of course, only if everything works out well for him.

Do you guys ever feel that way?

 

7 is enough for me...I'm done

 

hahaha. I don't really wanna have 12. I think three or maybe even four would be good.

Right now I'm just really in a baby mood I guess...

 

I have six. Smetimes I think about another one. Babies are wonderful. Unfortunately they grow up way to fast. another baby I could do, another 4 year old, NO WAY.

Kathi

 

no. I know my limits, and two is actually pushing it for me. I am so glad to not have a needy newborn in the house anymore. I am secretly longing for the day Meriel weans herself (though I know it will be a couple more years) and not so secretly hoping for the day I no longer have to change diapers or wipe my kid's butt after using the toilet. I can't wait until they are old enough to watch grown-up movies so DH and I don't have to wait until they are asleep. It will be fantastic to have philosophical discussions with teenagers instead of having to always explain everything to my little kids. The older they get, the more fun being a parent is to me! No more babies for me, thank you very much.

 

Billions might be a bit too many. I would like to have a few more. I told my wife that we were going to move down south, start an apple orchard, and have a dozen kids. Then we could all stay home and work, homeschool ect. She thinks a dozen kids is about 9 or 10 too many. She seems to think that three will be enough. We'll see........ (mischievous laugh)

 

Psst... HLS, middle Tennessee is pretty nice! Some of the land is actually reasonably priced, the weather is moderate, and it seems to be where half the hippies we know came to settle down!

I'm not thinking about babies at the moment, but if I have one, I can't imagine stopping there. I grew up in a 4-kid household and I can't imagine raising an only child. It would have to be at least two...

 

yeah I understand. I take care of a 5 year old during the week.

My baby's only 8 months old now so I haven't yet had to handle my own four year old. We'll see how it goes.

Is it really easier to raise children if you have them closer in age? that's what I hear, but I feel apprehensive about it because I don't want to take care of a baby and a toddler at the same time. It just seems to me to be kind of a stressful situation. One baby alone was (not so much anymore) a pretty stressful situation for me.

 

I stopped at 5, and it is only once in a great while that I fantasize about babies, (when I see them in snugglies and slings all over town), and I think I can do that freely because I seriously won't be having anymore. My daughters are 16,18,20,23,28, and they have all moved away from their original "home". My partner and I have been alone together for over a year now, and we are having such a good time, its like we just met, and are getting to know each other again. We didn't exactly put our relationship on hold, it was just that we were busy with other things. (You do know what I mean, I am sure.)

Having so many kids was the most important, positive, and rewarding experience of my lifetime. It was such a challenge, and kept me busy and happy for many years. I guess that is what makes this time in our lives so awesome, after many years of childraising, my partner and I are happy to be back to thinking and caring for ourselves more, enjoying each others company, and watching our children grow up from a distance. I never thought I would feel like I do, when I was in the thralls and thrills of babies and young children. So much of my sense of self worth was derived from the children. I think I felt almost guilty when I thought of myself and my needs while I had little ones.( I went to the library for 15 years and never went in the adult section). Now, its a time of my life to transition again. Life if so amazingly awesome, having lots of babies and children was so wonderful, and so is a life after kids. Who could ask for more.???

Billions of babies? Well no, not that many, but 5 was a great number for us.

 

8 months? Tamee, I thought Abryn was just a few days older than Moire, and she's 7 months!

 

Might want to keep the environmental impact of having more than a couple of kids in mind.

 

hahaha I don't really want 12 kids.

I only want two of my own and I want to adopt one.

 

to me, a month has just 4 weeks in it. so Abryn's a little more than 32 weeks old, which calculates out to 8 months to me.

my calendar, though, goes by the moon instead of the gregorian "January, February..." so there are actually 29-30 days in each month, from new moon to new moon.

 

Oh, bullshit. GOOD mommys should have MORE babies, it makes a better world. Tamee is a good mama.

Most of the DINKs (Double income, no kids) I know who are Oh So Worried about other people having children and "impacting" the enviroment have some of the most comsumer conspicuous behavior I know. "You can't have any kids, because it's bad for the enviroment, but you can have my 3 gallons to the mile Four Wheeler when you pry my cold dead body from it's comfy interior." Please.

 

I can't debate a mod. It is not in my best intrests. I will concede your point.

 

I would like to have at least one more, when I am in a better situation. Right now having 1 baby is hard enough! But, I will have to wait for the proper girl this time, so a future baby will have both parents all the time.

 

I'm not afraid to debate the issue. I know good and well that my two kids and my fuel-efficient compact car have a HUGE impact on the environment. Add one more baby, and I'd have to get a bigger car, and we'd need to ask the city for an extra garbage container because the one we have is full to the top by the time they pick up the trash each week. And we do recycle everything we can and we're not using disposable diapers or prepackaged food and other things most families use that would mean twice as much garbage in the landfill.... You think your family doesn't leave a huge environmental footprint? You're fooling yourself.

 

Oh, I'm sure we do leave a foot print. But, we are careful about thing like condensing trips in the cars, (there is no public transportation where I live) cloth diapers, recycling ect.

But, being a GOOD parent has an impact on the Planet as well. My kids are raised to think for themselves, which is a POLITICAL boon to the Country and the Planet. My children are raised to be ethical and empathetic, which is an Ethical and Spiritual boon to the Planet. There is more to having babies than how much damage they do to the "Planet" good parents help the planet in more ways than they hurt it, by using "resources."

There are other factors to consider, when having a family, then Enviromental ones. Someone has to offset the Nascar watching, Republican voting, nonthinking, reactionary, Right Wing Bush lovers who are having THEIR 6 or 8 kids. THAT is MY contribution, FOUR good, liberal, hip minded, open minded, THINKING, feeling, brain powered, antiwar children. That contribution, imo, means more to me than just about anything. I've offset 4 Republicans. Two of my kids can vote already, so we are ON OUR WAY!!!!

 

Four sounds reasonable, even to this DINK.