Age gaps

[andi-mama]

For those of us who are pregnant with #2 (or more)...

What will the age gap be between this baby and your other babies? Are you comfortable with this gap?

This is one thing I'm really worrying about. My son is 20 months now, so he'll be 29 months- 2.5 years old- when this baby is born. We were planning on conceiving in July, which would have made them just about three years apart. I'm much more comfortable with that gap but obviously it's too late now! I'm hoping someone with a 2.5 year gap between kids will chime in and tell me it's wonderful.

[AladdinsLamp]

We are going to have a 3.5 year gap between ds and new baby. I alternate between thinking it is too little and thinking it is too big.

[Bella Catalina]

Our gap will be 30-31mths, so 2.5 years as well.

We started ttc again hoping for an 18mth-2 year gap, but this will be so much better. Even now at 22mths he is great, but he will be that much better 8 months from now. I didn't want any more than a 3 year gap between them, so God willing, this baby will stick.

[Mrs-Mama]

DS will be 31 months (2.5 years) when this one arrives.

[Leav97]

DD will be 4.5 when the new little one arrives. We've been TTC for almost 2 years now.

[jmo]

DD will be 3yrs 2 months when this baby is born. We had hoped for a closer (2.5) age gap but I've had 2 m/c's sice we started trying last June. Now, we'll take whatever we can get!

[AugustineM]

This will be my third baby. My first two are a very unexpected 21 months apart. In some ways it was good and in other ways it was very hard. I wouldn't recommend it. But I do remember that when my older one was 2.5 I kept thinking, wow it would be SO much easier to have another baby at this stage, than at 21 months. Now my older two are 3 1/2 and 20 months, and they are really starting to play together. It's very cute. They also fight over toys, but overall they have fun together.

This baby will be 2.5 years from my youngest and honestly I think it will be great. At 3 years old I think it can start to get difficult because at that age they really start to understand things more and can be very jealous and stubborn and really regress a lot. Not that that doesn't happen at every stage, but I think the 3 year old can be especially so, iykwim.

[andi-mama]

Thank you Ashley!! That's exactly what I needed to hear

[natalieadw]

Originally Posted by Bella Catalina

Our gap will be 30-31mths, so 2.5 years as well.

We started ttc again hoping for an 18mth-2 year gap, but this will be so much better. Even now at 22mths he is great, but he will be that much better 8 months from now. I didn't want any more than a 3 year gap between them, so God willing, this baby will stick.

That's what our age gap is too

[hannybanany]

Our age gap will be 3 yr 2 mos.

[selena_ski]

wow 2.5 years seems to be popular. we will also be close to that at 27 months.

[carolina~mom2be]

our gap will be 26 months...anyone with experience right at the two year gap?

[tatgurl]

Originally Posted by carolina~mom2be

our gap will be 26 months...anyone with experience right at the two year gap?

My boys are 27 months apart. It's a nice gap. Hard because the older one was really still a baby when #2 was born, but nice now. they play well together and are into the same things.

the boys will be 5 and 7 when this one is born. so that should be interesting. my younger will be starting kindergarten in sept. So I will have time alone with the baby during the day. Not sure how things will go when the boys get home every day, with homework and all the nighttime routines.

[because]

Mine will each be 35 months apart. Worked fairly well the first time around... here's hoping it's OK again!

[Girl Named Sandoz]

There will be 6 years and 2 months between my son and the new baby.

[Patchfire]

There are 55 months between my dd and ds. I really liked the spacing, except for how toddlerhood interacted with our homeschooling. So we decided to have them either a little closer together or a lot farther apart. Closer won, obviously. Ds will be around 44 months when this babe arrives.

[buckysprplmonkey]

This is going to be number 3 for me. My oldest is 7 now, there will be 8.5 years between her and new baby. DD#2 is 21 months, so she'll be 2.5 when this one arrives. DD#1 is from a previous marriage, that's why there's the big age gap between my DD's. I don't mind the 6 year age gap at all, it's kind of nice. I'm not sure how to do the two babies in the house at once thing! I guess the trick is I need to stop thinking of my going on 2 year old as a baby and remember she's a rough and tumble toddler now!

[Delaney'sMommy]

My girls are 3 years apart & this one will be born when my youngest is 4 and oldest is about to turn 7. I really wanted my kids very close together, but it didn't work out that way! Extended breastfeeding had a lot to do with that, my 3 yr old is still nursing!

[Justmee]

Not in your ddc but my new baby and my dd#3 are 2.5 years apart (a bit more, he was born Feb. and she'll be 3 in July). So far it's been great. She is pretty independent, uses the potty, loves the baby, understands a lot more than my twins did (they were 17 months when dd3 came : ). Anyway just wanted to say good luck and it's a nice gap (in my 2 week experience)

[Alison]

DS will be 5.5 years on my due date. I wanted 3.5 years, but first DH got laid off, so we put things on hold for a year, then when we did start to TTC again, it took almost a year to get pg, so we ended up with 5.5 years. In some ways though, it will be nice--DS will be in school, so this baby will have some of my time to itself. And DS is now asking for a brother sister, rather than having no say in the matter (well, not that he had any say anyway, but at least now it's something he actually wants).