Did/does anybody have 3 children under 4yo?

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If so, how did you find it? Would you have preferred a bigger gap between any of them?

I don’t quite fit this because I have 3 but they are 10, 3 and 7 weeks. My two under 4 are hard work and I would be falling apart if my 10yo was also under 4 I think.

Do you want 3 children under 4?😲
I would guess its hard work really hard.

I had 3 children under 4 and I loved it!

It was chaos but they all played together really well.

I did have to do a bit of juggling though, one to nursery,one to playgroup and a baby.
And I didn't have a car and only a single buggy .
I was thankful for home grocery deliveries.
One thing though was nappies!
I had 3 different sizes if nappies to buy and had to watch I didn't get mixed up.

I had three under two. It was pretty hellish but paid off huge dividends in the long term in terms of their friendship now that they are adults. It's expensive having every stage at almost the same time though.

Yes. DTs were 2 years and 3 months when ds2 was born….

I love how much of a little gang they are and hopefully will be as they grow up BUT if I had 3 singletons, would definitely try to space it out more and wait a couple of years at least in between babies. Ideally, I would have waited until dc1 was at school, dc2 turned 3 and started pre school to have a baby…

I had 3 under 3 and I loved it. You are in the baby bubble with baby number 1 so you just as well stay in a bit longer.

I had ds1 9, then ds2, 4 ds3, 13 months and newborn ds4 so pretty full on until ds2 went to school when he was 5 would I recommend it, I enjoyed it, it was chaotic and busy and loved them all being small together but my experience isn’t going to be the same as anyone else’s or yours. So expect to be very tired, very busy and a bit skint for a while.

I had 3 under 4 for a month before DC1 turned 4. It's hard work, but DH works away a lot so I'm on my own. The hardest dynamic was between DC2 and 3 as there was only a 17 month gap. It's very full on and relentless having 3 high needs aged children but the bond between them already is lovely.

3 under 3, all single births. Swings and roundabouts! Was hard, and I think if we’d had left bigger gaps we poss would have stopped at 2, as not sure I could have got ‘my life’ back and then gone back to having another baby.
eldest is 18 this year, it’s hard work with GCSEs, a levels all coming at once. Think we’ll have 5 years with one of more doing exams. But in other ways it’s good, going on holidays and days out & being able to do similar stuff, rather than find things for different ages

I had three under three. Can’t remember much about the first year as it was just getting through it on zombie-automatic but wouldn’t have swapped it for the world. They were incredibly close as children and still are as adults. I was a glutton for punishment as ten years later I did two under two - also incredibly loving relationship and the whole lot of them are a very strong sibling unit.

Yes. All 2 school years apart. I work and have no local family support (in fact also had caring responsibilities for family in the very early years). However my husband is supportive and has some flexibility in his hours. I wouldn’t have it any other way as it was perfectly manageable when they were small and as they’ve grown up they all have similar interests and get on well as a group.

Thousands of families will have gone for a second with a 2.5 year gap (probably the most common gap ever) and ended up with twins. So yes loads of people will have just that. Sounds very intense to me 😄

Also our distant friends had a toddler and then triplets. So yes.

Yep! 3 under 4 here and it's beautiful chaos 😅

I would also look long term, having 3 at university at the same time is crippling unless you have a high income and save well from birth.

I had 3 under 4. It was hard work and tiring (DC3 was a terrible sleeper) but they're all lovely kids now. Although I agree with pp that the upcoming university costs are terrifying!

I had 3 under 2 (twins 21 months after my first) 😅

Three under 3 (well in 2 yrs 3 months actually) and then a 4th so 4 under 5.
It was busy, tiring, and great fun.
Two went to University, (those were expensive years as they were both there at the same time) and two didn't.
They are all very close as adults, and although the girls squabbled a bit as teens , they all always were there for each other.
Extra bonus... I toilet trained no 1 and the rest just copied