hi everyone, we have just decided to go for dc3 ds1 just turned 3 and ds2 is 1 if all goes well, we should have dc3 here by the time they are around 4 and 2 but im worried about age gap between dc1 and dc3... is 4 years not too much for them to bond? i know that i never had very close bond with my sister and brother (they only had 18 month between them) and i came 2 years after them. not sure if it was because my mum spent a lot of time with me as always felt sorry for me being on my own or if i was on my own coz my sis and brother thought my mum had spent too much time with me and they became jealous (vicious circle ). or because they just simply got on better
we always thought we'd stop at 2 but now we both really feel we would love a third one but would this not throw our family out of sync?
my dp and our two kids are very close (i didn't feel my family was very close when i was a child) and im hoping that our kids will feel that we love them all the same way and they will be good friends but can't help worrying about this. (which probably won't help the ttc either as i keep thinking, it has to happen quickly otherwise age gap will be even bigger)
Any comment would be appreciated
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Would 4yr age gap be too big to hope for close bond???
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workingonitagain · 27/09/2012 13:14
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