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@lalagata My oldest 3 are GGB. I'm one of nine, and we are BGGBGGGGG. So when we were 3 we matched what you are hoping for :)

@jdn2604 I have 4 girls: 7, 6, 3, 10 months (and one boy- 4). We get a lot of HMD from my sisters, the youngest of which is 10, and from my cousins. We pass from kid to kid all the time. If we do buy new clothing, it's $5 or less per item, and usually I let the kids pick the style they like. I...

@seinfeld My #7 is seven months old. All my births were unmedicated (never even had an IV), and #5, 6, and 7 were homebirths. #6 and #7 were the only times I needed Pitocin post-birth, and I'm honestly not really sure I needed it after #6 (didn't get along with that particular midwife from the...

@daniel1986 We have GGBGGBB. We were all convinced that last boy would be a girl. I'm one of nine: BGGBGGGGG

@lyric4him Thanks! It doesn't always feel like that!

@new_2_this_b_kind Kids are 8f, 7f, 5m, 4f, 2f, and 4months m. I teach from 12:14-4 (plus a 10-15 minute commute) and my husband is in rabbinical school full-time. My husband goes to the 6:15ish prayers and gets back around 7 or 7:15 depending on the day. 7:00 - I get up with the kids, get...

@jaxson I treat behavior, not temperature. Though if there's a temp spike (like normal to 101 in an hour), then I medicate as to avoid febrile seizures.

@btyler101 Same. Baths once a week in the winter, more often in spring/summer, but not every day. In the summer, when it's really hot and sticky, I'll sometimes throw all the kids in a (cold-ish) bath with their bathing suits on before pajamas just to get the day's grime off.

@nolongerchaff You should also be aware that organic produce, especially berries, is full of tiny bugs and insects. Take a strawberry, bang it on black paper, and you can watch bugs run out of it. I've done it, and taken a video of them. Most of the EWG "Dirty Dozen" non-organic version is also...

@texan2 I have 5 right now. For us, 2-3 was the hardest, because we had 3 under 3 and were outnumbered. So there was always a question of which hand was going to hold the third kid. The truth is that after every kid, it takes 3-4 months to settle into a new routine. Once that happens...

@apor2017 My 10-year-old just started ballet last year. She goes to a girls-only studio that is pretty chill. It's not a competitive program, no one (even high school girls in pointe classes) wears makeup except stage makeup by the recital, and I haven't found them to be pushy about taking more...

@puddingtader When something is important to you, you make it work.

@guitarofgod I'm not sure. 2 under 2 is overwhelming. On the other hand, the older kid never has a memory of being the youngest, so they don't miss it. The one time I did not have 2 under 2 was when I had my April 2020 baby. Overwhelming for other reasons.

@guitarofgod Married at 20. First at 21, then at 22, 24, a few weeks shy of 26, 28, and almost 30. I'm one of 9; my mother was also 20 when she got married. She ranged from 21 to 40 at our births.

@alex_t Can't speak for having 6 - I have 5 right now, but I'm the second-oldest of nine with an age spread of almost 20 years. My mother was 40 when she had my youngest sister. I don't think any of us ever felt less loved by our parents. Love doesn't divide with every kid, it multiplies. I...

@anonymous9299 My oldest is 10, and started ballet at the beginning of this school year for the first time (she was 9). She's the first one that we've signed up for a formal extra curricular activity. We've done many free workshops at the public library over the years. If any of my kids kept...

@blessingsbe We don't have a TV, but I have a similar problem to you with my kids reading. So they are now responsible for packing their own snacks and backpacks, checking the school lunch menu to see if they like that day's lunch, and helping prepare an alternate lunch if they don't. I also...

@aog17 Totally not a big deal. We're a big family - nine kids - and it's been very convenient. My parents were almost always willing to watch my kids, because they had little ones, too. And I'll take my sister(s) for the day if my parents need me to. Four other siblings of mine have kids and...

@aog17 That's my family! My youngest sister is less than 3 years older than my oldest daughter. My oldest brother is a few month short of 20 years older than my youngest sister.

@titus With all my kids (six of them), I stopped pumping at a year but breastfed on demand whenever we were together until they wanted to stop on their own. I also usually have a bit of a freezer stash by the time they were 1, so I send it all to the daycare to keep in their freezer and they...