So my husband wants another baby, we have two boys already, 4yrs and our youngest will be 3 in January. I am in my Associate's degree online right now and graduate in October of next year. My husband is currently on recruiting orders but I just don't know if we should wait or go ahead and have baby #3. I don't want it to interrupt my school, which being online it really wouldn't if we plan to where I am due after I graduate. A lot of people say dont' have a baby on recruiting, which we're considering that also. BUT, my husband left a week and a half after our first, and 2 hours after our second, so him coming home every night is awesome for us. Any opinions on going from 2 to 3? I can't decide! lol 

Well every family is different, it really is up to yall. 

I'm just worried about going from two to three lol. Especially if I end up with ANOTHER boy! I do know it's up to us, but just thought I'd gather some opinions that might help! Thanks! 

Another boy isn't bad :) At least with me if i had a girl i would prob make us go bankrupt lol cuz i would want to get every cute outfit or bow for her head that i found LOL 

I know! I'd be the same way!!! And after I am around my niece for a few days I am completely fine with another boy! They're soooo dramatic! lol 

Ooooo yes they are :) Count it a blessing with another boy or girl which ever and the fact that DH is home for a good 3 years to see the pregnancy, birth, and most important time in his/her life :) 

Going from 2-3 kids was very easy for me. My kids were 5 & 4 when he was born! 

We just had our third boy 3 months ago. Going from 2 to 3 has been EXTRA difficult on me. Getting up in the middle of the night with the baby, getting up at 5:30 to get all 3 kids ready to take the oldest to school, plus the 5 and 3 year olds are going through EXTREMELY difficult phases which only causes headaches.

Having one was nothing, having two was even easy but something about adding a third just has me pulling my hair out. It could just be me because I've heard that when you have your third it's nothing because you're so used to it all 

Ummm.... At least you'd have lots of hand mendowns? 

Having one was nothing, having two was even easy but something about adding a third just has me pulling my hair out. It could just be me because I've heard that when you have your third it's nothing because you're so used to it all

I haven't heard people say adding a 3rd is easy, but it was hard for us as well. Our 3rd was a surprise and our 2nd was pretty young when I got pregnant with him. I basically had 2 babies and it was tough.

As far as not having a baby on recruiting duty, why would anyone say that? I think it was easier being pregnant and having our sons while he was recruiting than when we had to cross our fingers hoping he would not be deployed with my pregnancies while he was in the fleet.

Besides, he was stoked that he got 10 days paternity leave while on RD. It was the most time he had off the whole 3 years! lol 

I kinda want to try for another one but I dont know how to go from 2-3 kidos. But I want that girl. LOL. 

Um, not to sure why recruiting duty has anything to do wit popping a midget out of your vag. LOL but we want another and will probably try in another year and at that point we will have 2 years left with RD, so by the time the midget was/is/might be born, we'd have a little over a year... 

Um, not to sure why recruiting duty has anything to do wit popping a midget out of your vag.

Classy as always Cayla ;) LOL 

As far as not having a baby on recruiting duty, why would anyone say that?

They say this because he is gone ALLLL the time, but I look at it as at least he comes home every night! He missed the first 8 months of both of our boys so recruiting is nothing. 

I kinda want to try for another one but I dont know how to go from 2-3 kidos. But I want that girl. LOL.

I feel your pain lol! I want a girl so bad, but then again I'd be fine with another boy. I'm just having baby fever..baby stage does not last long enough! Now I have two little brats! But by the time I got preg again I'd have a 3+ year old and a 4 going on being close to 5, so they'd be older! 

Classy as always Cayla ;) LOL 

I just have to say ish like that because I have been robbed of my vag stretching to mars and back...

like DH's boss said "nothings attractive about strippers up there dancing and their c-section scar is in plain view" smh.

hahahahahahahaha totally irrelevant but funny :D 

The first 12-18 months of recruiting duty was hard for him. The area he was recruiting in was bad (not a lot of qualified applicants). I felt like I was a single parent but like you said at least he came home at night! We had a baby when he had 6 months remaining and by that time the hard stuff was over. Good luck with whatever you and your hubby decide. If you don't mind me asking what online school are you going through and what are you going for? 

My hubby and I want kids bad. But we are trying to wait a year or two, to make sure we are financially stable. I almost can't take it! I get such bad baby fever that it's sometimes all I can do to day dream at work about how I life would be with children. =P It makes me sad, because we really want a boy and a girl, but we are 25 now, and the longer we wait, the more likely we are to get girls only. My parents were 34 when they started having kids and I have two sisters. I just don't want that to happen to us. We both want a boy so bad, sometimes I just feel like I can't take it anymore. =/ 

For me, going from 1-2 was SO hard. Really hard. Going from 2-3 and so on was a piece of cake. :) 

It makes me sad, because we really want a boy and a girl, but we are 25 now, and the longer we wait, the more likely we are to get girls only.

Really??? They definitely did not teach this in the torturous genetics portion of nursing school. While females have a limited number of eggs, men make more sperm all the time, and ultimately decide the gender. Every egg to be fertilized has a 50/50 chance of receiving boy or girl sperm. So with each pregnancy there are the same odds of having a boy or girl.