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@messa You’ve got lots of pieces you’re thinking about, but one thing I think can help is just taking it one baby at a time. You don’t have to decide now if you want 4 kids, you need to think about whether you want one more. Then if you have one more, you think again about whether you want one...

@alex_t We’ve got 3 and are considering a 4th. We’re super tired, but I can’t decide if it’s because we’re older or because COVID kicked our butts this year. Just barely enough childcare to get our work done, way less family support, very few interactions with other kids. We’re just depleted. Is...

@dnzundah I feel like it’s easy now for us to say “oh, we just won’t do lots of activities”, but I wonder how realistic limiting that kind of thing will actually be. I’m an introvert, and as a kid I was maxed out at school + 1 activity at a time... but even that adds up quickly as you add kids!

We’ve got 3 kids (5, 3 and 1 y/o). We’re (non-urgently) considering having a fourth. I feel like I have a sense of what having one more would be like while they’re still young, but have trouble envisioning what the challenges will be as they get older (I suppose that’s true whether we have 3 or...

@tfosria For B, you might try stimulating let down before she latches. That way the sucking she is doing is immediate pay off for her. I had a sleepy baby I had to supplement some and this helped baby connect the sensation of nursing with lots of milk.