Baby three? Alyssa Milano and husband can't agree

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Sara McGinnis

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Alyssa Milano is toying with the idea of going for baby three, but her husband isn't exactly on board. The actress, who is mom to son Milo and daughter Elizabella, has opened up about her thoughts on another pregnancy as well as her kids' latest milestones.

“My son is like a teenager it feels like,” the breastfeeding advocate told People magazine with a laugh. “He’s just really special and fun and funny and loving and caring. My daughter is saying, ‘Mama’ and ‘Dada,’ and she loves animals and she’s sitting up, and she’s got two teeth. At this age, it’s like every day is five milestones!”

When asked about how her 3-year-old is doing as a big brother she shared, “It’s like she was never not a part of our family. He’s madly in love with her, super protective of her, and she worships the ground he walks on. She thinks he’s the greatest thing ever. Everything he does, she gets hysterical laughing. It’s adorable.”

“I definitely want another one,” the wife of David Bugliari went on to say. “My husband doesn’t want another one though. He goes, ‘We only have two hands.’ ”

She added, “He comes from a family of three, so I think he understands the whole middle child concept. It probably won’t happen because I’m 42 and if we were to do it, we’d have to do it quickly, but maybe we’ll adopt!”

My own husband's thinking was much in line with Alyssa Milano's spouse's after our second arrived. We jumped into parenthood on a whim and knew we want to have more than one, but the decision between two and three was not easy. For me it was a matter of not being ready to say for sure I was completely done that keeping me from being able to let the idea go, and for him it was fear of being overwhelmed by having too many that made him unwilling to go for it.

We were stuck undecided for a handful of years, but finally our two boys grew out of infant and toddlerhood and I realized I was more ready than I had anticipated to move on. In hindsight I'm very thankful my mind went that way, because I can only imagine how hard it would be to have two people truly at odds over whether or not to have another baby. My heart goes out to anyone who's been in such a situation.

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