My brother and I were unplanned - my parents were told my mother couldn’t have children, so they adopted two daughters in the early-60’s. My brother (surprise!) was born in 1965, whereupon the doctor proclaimed that it would never happen again.
Apparently my parents believed him because I’m typing these words today.
One child, not planned, but not unwelcome.
I am 16 weeks too! When are you due?
Both children unplanned. Both should have been a terrible idea at the time but turned out wonderfully.
The irony of course is that I was a risk taker during my teenage years and somehow managed to have fairly constant unprotected sex without getting pregnant only to end up pregnant a few months after beginning to protect against it. I became pregnant with my son during a period of great sadness and stress and I suspect that I may have thrown up a birth control pill. I was a little paranoid after that and despite resuming the pill, breast feeding and using condoms I became pregnant and a lot more paranoid. Shortly after her birth I had a tubal and avoided sex for almost two years just in case.
I love them both dearly but I wasn’t taking any chances on three.
Two children with both planned. This is using the definition that we wanted children, purposefully stopped using birth control and were in a good place to have them.
All seven of my kids were planned.
Kidding. You know I don’t have kids…yet.
Little bro and I were both planned, as was the first of the three babies my mother lost (she lost the first after falling down the stairs :(). The other two that were lost were to be oops! babies, but were probably victims of medication mom had been taking before she knew she was pregnant and miscarried early. The sad part is that my parents would have welcomed all three - as evidenced by my memories of happy “you’re going to have another brother or a sister” speeches - and were devastated to learn that their unplanned for surprises weren’t meant to be after all.
Two children, both planned, inasmuch as “Let’s have sex and if we make a baby that’s OK” is a plan.
No kids. That definitely was not planned.
One child, adopted, so definitely and exhaustively planned.
Since I held off getting exited about my first until, oh, about his first birthday, I swore that for the second, I would start getting excited as soon as the second line appeared. I think you’ve earned a little flutter of excitement 
Sorry you’re feeling that way lately. Maybe some of this will change when the new arrival comes.
Yes, planning to such a degree sort of indicates, well either fertility conception problems/issues or possibly control issues.
What would be the category of allowing nature to take its coarse and fully accepting and feeling blessed if a child is given to the couple?
If I ever spawn, the idea of only having one is very appealing to me also.
That’s so awesome. 
That’s amazing. I think it’s cool they adopted girls and got biological boys. The reverse would have been cool, too.
I assume that’s planned, too. I basically mean like as long as you weren’t actively trying to avoid it. Using condoms and stuff like that. This is The Dope. You know (!) everyone is going to define what planned means to them. 
I don’t have kids but everyone I know does so I’ll throw you some data:
Brother planned
Me planned (we are exactly 2 years apart)
Brother’s 2 kids, planned
My 3 best friends with kids under 3, planned
My cousin’s 6-month old, planned in a sense that they would take a baby any time they could manage to make a baby. It just took like 5 years to make said baby. Then he spent his first 6 months in foster care because neither parent was legally fit to be a parent.
My youngest cousin’s 5-year-old, unplanned
My other cousin’s kid’s 3 kids, unplanned
Just so happens that the 4 unplanned kids here were born to very young, un-educated and un-married women. All the others were kids born when the parents were in their mid-to-late 20s.
I don’t want to hijack the thread, so I’ll note that the thread I started back when this all happened is here, and say no more.
1 child, very planned (IVF).
Two pregnancies, both unplanned, one live birth. And a much better understanding of birth control.