Age gap between your DC?

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Just wondered what your age gap between your DC is? Also whether you think it was a good age gap or not? TIA

4 years between one and two and 3.5 years between 2 and 3 and yes it turned out an ideal age gap as each time i had a new baby one above was either at playgroup or school, and they all get on together now they are adults order is boy, girl boy

2 years between ds and dd1 (who are 12 and 10). Was hard work at the toddler age and looking back I can't remember a lot about dd as a baby (probably because I was run ragged with ds). Did get a bit easier as they got older.

Then 10 years between dd1 and dd2. (11mths). I don't think I could manage 3 little ones but am enjoying the baby stage a lot more this time round as know it doesn't last long. And the older 2 can do a lot for themselves such as walk to school and we don't have to have 3 car seats. And they help out a bit with the little one.

Will be almost 7 years by the time DD2 arrives, so looking forward to see how it goes.
I didn't want such a big age gap (circumstances and fertility) but will be TTC again fairly soon after birth.

2 years 2 weeks. Every gap has its plusses and minuses imo but no regrets.

2 years and a few days between my dds and it is the perfect age gap for us. Dds are the best of friends, they have their little fights but they always have each others back. Dd1 is quite small so they are pretty much the same size in clothes so they share alot of stuff.
I hope they continue to be this close, my sister and i have the same age gap and were like this as kids but not so much in adulthood.

13 months. It was hard when they were younger but now all the baby stage is out the way and they seem to be quite close to each other. They don't squabble as much as other siblings I know, but I don't know if that's their personalities or being close in age.

4 years and 2 weeks assuming baby arrives when he's due next weekend.

Perfect for me as we will have had four months to adjust to being a family of four before the eldest starts school, which will then allow me to have some time alone with the baby.

16 months between the first two, then 2.5 years between the next.

4 years . Has been good and bad . Eldest was old enough to be able to do some things herself when youngest was born . She also started school when youngest was 3 months so got to spend some one on one time with youngest .
Negative things are that can be hard to find activities both can do , getting easier now they are 7 and 3. They also bicker sometimes but guess that could be any age gap .

7 year age Gap.
Have a 10 & almost 3 year old.
Great age Gap!

2 years 1 month

Liked the gap up until eldest starting school when she became insanely jealous of her sister being at home whilst she was at school

Also have one doing A levels and 1 doing GCSEs at the same time

They don't get on but have very similar personalities even if they won't admit it so I'm hopeful as adults they will have each other's back

5 years between me and my sister and over the years we've got on and not -I think personality is more important in sibling relationships than age gap and is largely down to chance

Logistically I liked the 2 year gap as I got all the nappies and broken nights over in one go

Around 2 years, both times (I have three DC). It's a good gap IMO, as they're close enough in age to get on well together.

4 years between mine. I would have liked them closer together but that’s how it worked out. It was quite nice in the end. DS started school when DD was about 6 weeks old. So I had a lot of time with her as a baby when DS was at school which I find to be nice (DS is a handful, and takes up a lot of my attention).

2yrs 4mths between DC's 1 and 2. 1 week short of 4 years between DC's 2 and 3. I preferred the smaller age gap.

2 years 7 months. I found it hard during the first months but now they can play together it's working well.

22 months, 2 years 9 months, 2.5 years and 12 months. It's been great although I sometimes wish now that dc3 was closer in age to dc2 and not so close to dc4.

We have 26 months and 34 months. The shorter age gap was easier as they played together sooner, although we avoided a Christmas/jan birthday with DC3 which accounted for the longer gap.

2 years 1 day. I would go for a smaller gap, not bigger. It's great that they have all the same interest and games. I had a big gap with my sister and while it was clearly easier for parents, I felt more like a babysitter and we were not very close.

Between DC1 and DC2 3 years
Between DC2 and DC3 3 years
Between DC3 and DC4 7 years!

All of the gaps have been good, having a 6 year old, 3 year old and a baby was pretty full on however. I am very much enjoying this (planned!) big age gap though, the older ones are such a help and love him so much.

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6 .5 yrs between ours (b and g) and they’ve only really started getting along at all in the last couple of years and they are 26 and 19 now ! Frankly it wouldn’t have made any odds what gap we had as eldest ds was perfectly happy being an only child and didn’t want siblings at all , which is ironic really as I miscarried his twin at 12 weeks .

There will be 2 and a half years between my two. I think that’ll be a nice age gap

18 months here. My littlest is only 4 months so it’s too early days to recommend the age gap but so far it isn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be (although last week when we were all ill was pretty hellish!) but I hope they will grow up close and into the same things and I will be happy to get the baby stage over with and once I am done with prams, changing bags and nappies etc I won’t have to go back to it. So far the gap is really good. Ds1 has shown no jealousy as he was too young to know what was happening and just accepted ds2 straight away. I know there will be lots of fights growing up but at the moment ds1 loves the baby and is always hugging and kissing him. For me, it helps that their needs are relatively similar so I find it easy looking after them both at the same time and as ds1 doesn’t go to nursery I don’t have to get out of the house for a certain time and we just do what we want.