My neighbor is pregnant with her 6th kid

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and the oldest is 8. :-|

She just told me a month or so ago that her H suggested she go back to work...guess this was her way out.

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He has to know where these babies are coming from.

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I feel like once you have five, what's one more? But her poor poor uterus.

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Aug 27, 2012 10:37:16 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

I feel like once you have five, what's one more? But her poor poor uterus.

Lol, I agree with this. My BFF growing up has 12 siblings, after a while the older ones take over care of the younger ones pretty well.

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Aug 27, 2012 10:43:12 GMT -5 fortmyersbride said:

Aug 27, 2012 10:37:16 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

I feel like once you have five, what's one more? But her poor poor uterus.

Lol, I agree with this. My BFF growing up has 12 siblings, after a while the older ones take over care of the younger ones pretty well.

She has 12 siblings (13 in her family) so she wants to have lots of kids too. I feel sorry for the kids though, since they get very little attention now with only 5 (I think I've posted here before how they use their trampoline as a "pack n play"--they take the younger kids outside, put them in the trampoline and zip it closed. The kids sit out there for an hour + with no supervision. They also play in the pool with no adult around)

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Wow. I'd be afraid that I would literally go crazy with that many kids! Hats off to them if they can make it work.

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I think no matter what your kids ages it would be virtually impossible to go back to work with 5 kids.

We are three weeks into the school year and already have Strep in the house.

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Aug 27, 2012 11:22:30 GMT -5 @septimus said:

I think no matter what your kids ages it would be virtually impossible to go back to work with 5 kids.

ITA: I have a grad school classmate who has 5 and opened her own practice between #4 and #5. :-| She amazes me. I couldn't do it. I've decided her level of chaos tolerance is just much, much higher than mine.

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Aug 27, 2012 11:54:03 GMT -5 slug*bug said:

Aug 27, 2012 11:22:30 GMT -5 @septimus said:

I think no matter what your kids ages it would be virtually impossible to go back to work with 5 kids.

ITA: I have a grad school classmate who has 5 and opened her own practice between #4 and #5. She amazes me. I couldn't do it. I've decided her level of chaos tolerance is just much, much higher than mine.

She is a nurse, and I think he wanted her to try to get a job working a few nights/weekends, but yeah, I still don't know how that would work.

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Aug 27, 2012 11:59:04 GMT -5 flygirl said:

Aug 27, 2012 11:54:03 GMT -5 slug*bug said:

ITA: I have a grad school classmate who has 5 and opened her own practice between #4 and #5. She amazes me. I couldn't do it. I've decided her level of chaos tolerance is just much, much higher than mine.

She is a nurse, and I think he wanted her to try to get a job working a few nights/weekends, but yeah, I still don't know how that would work.

A supportive DH (eta: partner, whatever) is a big part of the equation, I think: my friend's DH is also practicing and I think plays a big role in juggling things, but it's her name on the practice. She's super driven, obviously, but there are only so many hours in the day! I can't see even trying it: DH and I would go crazy.

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My friend had 6 in like 7yrs...her first was twins & all singles after that. She went back to work as an RN a year or 2 after the youngest was born. I like big families but that many little kids would drive me freaking insane. My Mom went back to work Full-time with 5 kids (part time before that) when my little sibling went to Kindergarten. There was a 12yr gap between kid #1 & #5.

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I have 2 and some days I am on the edge. The other day I couldn't find my IUD strings. Panic city! The thought of having 3 or 4 more makes me shudder.