Would you have another child?

First, let me get this out of the way--no, we're not having any more children. But I was just reading an interesting post on AutismVox about siblings and the informative comments accompanying that post, and it made me wonder something: If you have a child diagnosed as being on the spectrum, would you still consider having another child?

I know the answer we had: Yes. We knew Edison's diagnosis already--were well into our second year of therapies--when we had Little. Mr. DMFP actually brought up autism, wondering if we would be wise to take a chance that Little would be on the spectrum, too, perhaps even deeper than Edison. We both strongly believe that there is a powerful heritable component to the traits our children exhibit, an unpredictable mix of traits arising from an unpredictable interaction of our genes and nongenetic factors. Our only conclusion was that we really had no way to predict what would happen.

Even believing this, we took the chance and had our Little Da. And just as I thought it would be, he is who he is, spectrum or not, speaking or not, motor delays or not...regardless of how any of this worked out or will work out, I'd have that little baby all over again, of course.