I’m sure this has been ask many times before, but I’m curious how often parents of a a SWCAH "actually" have more than one. The information I’ve read says we have a 1 in 4 chance of having a second child, but as I read the posts in our group I see many parents have more than one child with SWCAH. My husband and I have just one child at the moment and to be frank I don’t think we are going to try to have another. Mainly because we can’t keep up with one no less two. And to be honest we don’t know how we could handle going through a stomach flue with TWO! My poor son is over a year old and has been hospitalized 3 times and this last stomach flue sent us to the major pediatric hospital a hour away and a 3 day stay. I can’t even fathom what we would have done with two children with SWCAH and the flue! Now to defend those who have more than one cah child I do realize that my son is a very "independent thinker" (which really means a big bundle of energy with a determined mind of his own). I also don’t want anyone to think I am resentful of my son having SWCAH. I wasn’t supposed to even be able to have children so my son is a true blessing from God and I wouldn’t care what he was born with. I do admit his SWCAH makes me a huge mess of nerves and has caused a couple major problems (he also has serious food allergies that the allergist is contributing to the CAH, since no one in our family has these allergies). But I love him with all my heart and would NEVER give him up for anything. I think a lot about trying to have another child. I just wonder what the average "really" is.

Thanks