When my husband and I started dating, and discussions became more serious, we both were very much ready to enter the family zone of our life. We wanted time to establish ourselves as a couple, get married, buy a home, etc. But we both knew it was something that was important to us and high on […]
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Mr. Cookie and I have been on the same page regarding kids up until this point. When it came to the number of children he has always pictured two, and I’ve always pictured three. We decided to table the conversation until our second little guy was one year old. Chip is now 14 months and we’ve […]
For the past six months, we’ve been on a seemingly endless loop of two unending conversations around our home, revolving around two big questions: Is there a “right” or “wrong” reason for having another kid? How much uncertainty is too much? Not easy questions, of course. Questions with “answers” that seem to shift based on mood, or […]
When people start asking (in their roundabout way) if and when we are going to have more kids, my immediate answer has been “definitely not now, so not ready!” Mr. Pizza and I sort of settled on three being an ideal number for us. Mr. Pizza came from a large family and would always say […]
While I wasn’t always completely sure that I wanted children, I did know that if we had kids, I wanted more than one. To be honest, I either wanted zero children or I wanted four. I grew up as an only child for the first ten years of my life and can remember begging my […]
When I first talked to my doctor about a VBAC, and again when we decided on a scheduled c-section, the same question came up — “Are you going to have more kids?” It hasn’t been entirely easy to answer. When I was in my early and mid-20s, I figured we’d have three kids. I’m the […]
Mr. Cotton Candy and I had our Little Cotton Candy in November of 2012, and from the time I got pregnant, we knew there was a good chance we would be “one and done.” We saw a lot of benefits to having just one child. You can focus more on them and have more energy […]
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