I should add I have a stepdaughter and once before my LO was here we bought her board games for xmas and she said "what's the point I have no to play them with". That hit me especially because people say "but you can play with him" and in reality me and my OH work really stressful jobs and I know what it's like to not be in the mood to play when you get home

Totally following this as I have 5 sisters and always wanted multiple kids but my partner is much older than me and has a "cut off" date. He wants more but I've found it really difficult and with PND and anxiety I've ended up losing my job and as much as I'd love LO to have a life long friend I dont know if I can mentally handle it all again and have 2 at the same time

I'm an only child (not my parents choice apparently, but mum never managed to get pregnant again) and I always wanted a sibling. I stopped asking for a baby sister when mum snapped back one day, I was around 9 at the time.

I was lonely growing up, not helped that I found it harder than others to make friends, and as I reached my teenage years & GCSE/A-Level exams I felt like my parents expectations weighed heavily on me.

I always wanted 2 or more children, as I didn't want my children to feel as lonely as I did.

Bethany was 2 days old when I told hubby I wanted to give her a sibling. He wanted to wait until she was a bit older, getting funded childcare or starting school.
I finally fell pregnant again the week she turned 4!

I don’t have experience of being an only child but, When did you decide on having just 1 child, have you always been of that mindset or is there something that made you think that when you had your 1st?
After I had my 1st I had an extremely hard labour/birth, and found adjusting to parenthood quite hard and if anybody asked when I was having another one my immediate response was always ‘I’m not’ because that was how I felt, but when my little boy was a little older - I think just over the age of 2, I’d finally gotten over those feelings and anxiety and felt ready/as though I could manage having another child. So I’m now currently 3 days over waiting for my 2nd to make his appearance, and I’ve prepared myself as well as I can to be able to handle this labour/birth better and overcome anything I struggled with, with my 1st born.
You baby’s still a baby - from what I can see on your profile, so there’s still time later down the line to have another, don’t make any rash decisions and maybe look at the reasons why you’re considering just having the one compared to pros/cons of having anymore.

I’m not an only child in fact I have too many siblings 😂 I have two cousins both only children one is the most stuck up girl spoilt brat I know 😂 the other he’s great but that’s just a personality thing.
With Erin I was adamant I wasn’t having any more after her but that was mainly because I was a single mum and my mental health was crazy. However in the back of my mind I worried that when I’m gone she’ll be alone and now she has two brothers she’s amazing and loves them to bits Erin n Charlie have an amazing bond she’s happy she has someone to play with she couldn’t wait for Charlie to start walking about so they could play together parks, garden ect. So al in all I just like the thought they’ll all have one another when I’m gone xxx

I was an only child until I was 8 then my brother came along and tbh I think jealousy set in pretty quickly I hated not being able to have my mum and dad to myself and we used to fight all the time up until the age of 17 which is when I fell pregnant with my first daughter then we grew really close and we are literally inseparable he’s always at my house and around his nieces. Part of me wanted to have my children close together because of how I felt and how I was when my brother came along after having my parents to myself for so long and I’m so glad I did because my girls share the most amazing bond and there’s no jealousy what so ever 😍xx