Why do people feel the need to assume a person will or will not have more children? When I had one child (and even now that I have two, since they're both boys) people felt the need to ask when I was having more. Is there something wrong with a person being satisfied with the number of children they have (however temporarily or permanently) or with them continuing past two or three or half a dozen?
For example, while in the mall with my husband and two sons, a woman commented on the likelihood of a girl "next time". Now, we are not sure if we'll be having more children or not. It's not that we wouldn't love more; it's a possibility in the future.. But our younger son is four weeks old today, and people were commenting within days of his birth about trying for a girl. Anyhow, this woman seemed sweet enough, and I'm certain she meant well. I laughed off her comment, while seething inside at her assumptions.
My older son turned three the day before his little brother was born, and is very perceptive to our moods. Out came this gem:
"Mommy, you have 'nother baby and then you have three kids and you'll run away and say, 'AHH!'"
I love his dark humour.
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