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  Oct-9 7:51 am

I have 4 but I still have that strong feeling of wanting more! Everytime, I say one more and I'll be satisfied, but I'm not. I just had our 4th and I already have the baby fever.

S/o isn't all too involved with the tiny ones, but he's good with them once they get walking and such. SO I know that the smaller ones are almost all my responsibility. He also has some health issues, from an injury he aquired at the beginning of 2006, so when that affects him, he's NO help.

How do you stop caring what other people say, like close family?

How big is your house? Do you own or rent? How many kids to a bedroom?

We have 3 bedrooms, 1 for us and 1 for the 2 girls and one for the 2 boys (even though the youngest girl and youngest boy are sleeping in my room, almost time for the little girl to move into the room with her sister though)... so I figured that we ran out of room.

Do you both work? Is it unfair for me to bring children into a middle-low income family?

I am a SAHM, s/o makes enough money that we have our bills paid, for the most part, we have the cupboards and fridge/freezer filled with food... but we have to scrimp and save for big items like I'm really needing a van so I can take all the kids with me at one time, right now we have a car, that's probably on it's way out. Of course, we get CTB here, so that is what I get all the diapers/formula/clothes/extras our of for the month.

I mean, do you ever feel done? Am I just one of those that will have to just fight myself to get over it? If it were up to me, and there weren't outside issues, I'd be ready to TTC like now-ish, even though, this little guy was supposed to be the last! S/o says that he'll pass on getting fixed, like we planned and I'll just get Mirena and we'll come back to it in a few years... I can't get it till Feb (earliest booking!!)...

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I just had #6 we own a four on four house and rent out the lr apt. We have 3 girls in one room, our 3 yo in one room, our only son in one room and us and the baby in the last room. We have given up listening to comments and after a while people gave up making them. The only thing we hear all the time is are you craz and we say yes lol. We are crazy, crazy in love with our children and our life ;)
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