Warning: Extremely candid dialog about having multiple children
*Please read with grace for me and others, these sort of admissions are hard to express, especially publicly. My hope is that we can ask better questions of each other and maybe be a bit more understanding of one another. Pay attention, if you hold some of my projections or beliefs offensive or hard to hear, they may also be a unconscious belief you hold, or not :) You all are brave and beautiful so let's dive in:
It seems greedy to want two kids but three? Now that just seems excessive..
Like who do I think I am?
This is the kind of self judgement I feel and why I suspiciously look at other mothers with multiple children and think:
“how unfair to the child" “the older siblings just become babysitters” “people just have kids to fill the empty places in their hearts” “they have lots of money so they can hire help and literally don't have...