Our kids have an 8-year age gap. We thought having more kids later in life would be easier, but we were wrong.

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I always wanted a big family. When I was 5, I stood looking into the bathroom mirror as I did my best to push my stomach out. "Look, I'm having a baby," I told the grandmother who raised me. "One day," she said. "I'm going to have five babies," I said, stomach still pushed out.