We want a third, but are struggling to know whether we should wait a year (resulting in a 3 year gap) or if we should just try for one now (2ish year gap). Don't want to wait much beyond 3 as we're keen to just get the baby stage out of the way, so really the sooner the better.
I'm just wondering because although it would seem that an extra year might do us some good in terms of the twins' behaviour and capabilities, I've been hearing a lot of stories recently about how age 3 was worse than 2 and how doing the nursery run with an newborn is harder than just having them all at home.
Advice? Would you go for it now or would you wait another year?
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More after twins--what age gap is better, 2 or 3 years?
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Linguaphile · 14/11/2014 00:11
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MultipleMama ·
29/11/2014 11:53
I ended up with a 13 month gap, and like harrygrace, it was twins again, and then an unexpected PG gave us a 12 month gap.
I wanted small gaps just because it would have been easier to have them all home and because we wanted them to grow up close and play with each other, however I sometimes wish the gaps between the 5 were bigger just because of unexpected situations and having them in nursery would have made looking after 1 or 2 at home slightly easier.
I guess it just depends on if you think you could cope/handle all of them at home all day.
My 2 year olds are in toddler school so I'm not running around after 2 sets of twins all day! 
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