I was planned -- by my mom, anyway. I think my father would have been happy with no kids, but it was the '50s, and kids were more or less mandatory (or people'd wonder if Something Was Wrong).
Never asked Mom what kind of birth control they used, but it must have been effective because they didn't have my sister until after they'd bought their first house, six years after they married. Then, three years later, me. Mom told me she'd originally been trying for three kids, but after two Caesarians she decided not to push it. So I was the last. No surprises
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