Shoulda told him "Way to go, you and your wife have now doubled your replacement value. Now unless you're planning on losing half of them to plague, famine, and war, you're literally contributing to doubling the population density."

"we're going for a boy this time around! Fingers crossed!"

That shit always makes me think of card collecting or something.

"I orgasmed in my wife seven times!"

In the ye olden times, we'd rejoice over a successful birth, but modern medical care means that preganancy and birth is at its least fatalistic.

People had reasons to celebrate birth pre-1800s. Now, well...

It can be sweet, or it can be icky.

If the parent likes the kid for who they are, and is just happy to have a great relationship with another independent human, that's great.

But, sometimes the parents are obsessed with having a kid who they can mould in their own image. They insist, for example, that the kid become amazing at football, because they never made it as a football player but through their kid they can live their own dreams vicariously.

My mother in law introducing herself as a "mother of six" and each of her children by their number order. "This is my fourth!"

😬😬😬

Ahh to choose the spawnmogged sterilecel life… I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I swear to God that I will spit on the first person to try and communicate at me using these words. I will clear my nose.

If they are actively going for a 4th, then he's done something right. Raising 3 kids, with an unhelpful husband would be enough to put most women off having a 4th. Hell, even with a helpful husband!