What to do if your offspring wants a sibling

FOR whatever reason — perhaps medical or financial — you’ve decided one child is all you’re going to have.

So, when your little one, aged between three and six, asks out of the blue for a sibling, it can come as a shock.

“It can be incredibly disconcerting, especially if you’re feeling sensitive, vulnerable or guilty because you can’t or won’t have another baby,” says Laura Haugh, mum-in-residence at MummyPages.ie.