Will i regret not having a second child

Maybe you thought you were a “one and done” family, but now you’re not so sure. Or perhaps you had planned for more children but worry that a new baby will upset the balance you’ve worked hard to achieve in your life.

Deciding whether to have another child is a tricky calculation, and a choice that many parents spend time wrestling with.

Ultimately, you — and your partner, if you have one — are the only ones qualified to make this decision. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t helpful to ask for advice and hear about others’ experiences.

Confused about having second child

We asked financial advisers and the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to weigh in on how to know if your family is ready to welcome another little one.

“Financially, I’d like to see that you are spending less than you earn,” financial adviser Shang Saavedra told HuffPost.

Saavedra worries that “when I see parents or parents-to-be living paycheck to paycheck, you don’t have any savings, you don’t have any emergency savings, you have credit card debt — that stuff is going to be very difficult to overcome.”

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