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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Dogs and kids?
I have a 4 and a half year old, 17 pound dog that looks like a teddy bear and is the love of H and I's lives. DH is deployed right now but when he comes home and I graduate from nursing school in May, we want to get another dog of the same breed. We came to this decision because my parents got her half sister from the same breeder and they LOVE being together. I worried about her being so used to getting all of the attention but H brought up the point that one day we will have kids and she'll share the attention anyways. Well that brought up a whole new point! I grew up with one dog so for those of you who have 2 or more dogs as well as kids, would you do it all over again?
Photo bomb, yeah!
Re: Dogs and kids?
Does your dog need a lot of exercise? I don't have kids, but I have two dogs, and one is extremely high maintenance. I couldn't imagine having two of her and a child...I'd probably go crazy. Our other though is very relaxed and sleeps all the time. If he goes for a walk, fabulous, if not then he'll sleep until you're ready to walk him. We could definitely have two of him and have a kid.
Our hyper one will still be very young and with us when we try to conceive. I know that it'll be a lot of work, but if you're like me, you always make it work with anything new that comes into your schedule...just might take awhile to get used to it.
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Our dog is also 4.5 years old. I worried about how he'd do with our LO, but he's been great! I think it is less difficult when the dog is there to see the child grow--as opposed to being exposed to a grabby but loving 18 month old. Does that make sense? They both ( dog and baby) develop a sense of one another before the baby becomes mobile.
IMO, if you plan to have kids in a couple of years, I would either wait or foster. As military families, we are nor guaranteed what our lives are going to look like down the road. Before we moved to our current rental, DH and I both felt that a garage and a fenced-in yard were "non-negotiable". Well, we have neither, but our location is fabulous. DH either rides his bike or takes the Metro to work. It is an urban-ish setting--lots going on that interests our two year old. Lots of places to walk.
Good luck with your decision.