There are things I notice about people after having triplets that I would have been skeptical of had I not witnessed them first-hand: strangers unabashedly asking personal questions about my fertility; strangers unreservedly sharing personal information about their own fertility or that of their friends and relatives; strangers, acquaintances, and friends alike comparing their own experiences with my own and ultimately concluding that they are close to one and the same. What mother of multiples has not heard some version of “well my sister had three kids under four so it was pretty much the same as triplets,” or “my kids are only 17 months apart so I know what it’s like to have twins”?I would like to suggest that having multiple children in quick succession is not the same as having twins, or triplets, or any other high order multiples. I have no doubt that having kids one right after another comes with challenges and struggles and hair-raising moments. But it is its own version of hard, not a mirror image of what it’s like to have the same number of children all on the same day.
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1 comments:
ditto. and well said
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