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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 January 2014 08:26:42PM 4 points [-]

Me too. We put a lot of consideration into out family planning and given our priors (my: 3-6 children or none; hers: 2-5) we arrived at four actually with the age distance of about 2,5 years each which we (before the act) considered a compromise between stress for us and posibilty to play with each other for the children.

I admit though that I wanted to have children from the beginning. I knew that 1-2 children are inefficient and would rather have had none (though I'm not sure whether I could have gone through with that option).