It's a bit late to ask this now as I am due with our second in October when our DD will be exactly 2 years old (also born mid October!)
But the realisation has hit.
Am I doomed?
Please convince me that there is a way of getting through it with a 2 year old and a new baby. :)
My dd has always been very active, she walks most places now unless we are going a long way but she doesnt like sitting still for long and prefers being outdoors. 'Shoes' and 'walk' are her favourite words at the moment!
She is quite independant, will go off and do stuff by herself for half an hour or so and is not really clingy.
She has started the tantrums though which I am trying to ignore at the moment and let it pass over. (usually when we are at the shops or she wants to go in somewhere) She obviously feeds herself etc and I don't have to do a huge deal for her. She seems to like seeing babies in town and she now points to them and says 'babu!' She takes her baby annabelle doll around with her too.
But will all this change do you think?
How easy/hard did you find it having this age gap?
Did you regret it in any way not having waited longer?
How about jealousy?
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Mums with 2 year age gap
Ivortheengine8 · 21/06/2011 17:02
We have bought DD a potty and she has associated it with wee wee and pooh pooh but unfortunately she has not yet done a wee wee or pooh in it yet! (just on the floor nearby) Think we may have to wait a bit for that but at least she has taken some kind of ineterest!
How did you take them out? I have bought a single pram for the baby and a sling so that if DD gets really tired she can have a nap int he pram while I put baby in the sling. I don't know how this will work but I was trying to avoid a double buggy as I use PT quite a bit here as we are in London and it gets very crowded on buses etc.
DD was born on the 15th (with a Due date of 18th)
Baby is due on the 19th!
Hubby is a computer programmer so we think he must have programmed it that way!
It was nearly 16 years ago and there weren't as many pram varieties then.
when DS was tiny we still had our big heavy Silvercross pram and we had a seat for dd on it. But she liked to walk everywhere and soon out grew it. I used a backpack alot until she got too heavy and then we bought a pushchair with an attached stand on the back behind the handles so DD could stand and ride if she got tired of walking.
Was all going swimmingly until I had DD2 21 months later and then i think i just stopped going anywhere
Our DD's are 2 years and 1 month apart. DD1 was very independant! We included her in everything and made sure she got plenty of fuss when DD2 was born. There was no jealousy. She loved helping out and the two are now very close.
DD1 tends to 'mother' DD2 
but they both look out for one another (age 6 and 8) and although hard work in the early days, I was constantly tired especially potty stage I wouldn't change a thing. They are best friends and I like to think that was down to the fact that we were very positive about the age gap.
We bought a tandem pram for when DD1 wanted a rest - it was rarely used. A sling might have suited us better but I do not remember them being widely available?
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