to have a fourth baby after a six year gap?

[missjackson]

Would we be crazy to have such a large age gap (would be nearly 6 years) between the youngest of my first three and a baby? I had three kids under 4, so they are all very close together; would a baby be left out? Would I resent having to do primary school then high school all over again with another one, when the first three will be well through it. And finally, I would be 44! What do you think? We've always really wanted a fourth, but were just trying to be sensible, but now it feels like our time to make this decision is almost up....

My dad was the fourth after a long gap (his siblings were 14, 12 and 8 when he was born).

They're not close. The two eldest left by the time he was 5 or 6 and he was an uncle by the time he was 7. He felt like an only child most of his childhood and unfortunately his older brother was the golden child so my dad was left to his own devices most of the time.

I have an 11-25 year gap with my cousins - we're not close at all, I wouldn't recognise most of them if I walked past them.

We have been debating having a 3rd, with a 7 and 4 year gap with siblings. One of the things that made me not want to was not having to drag a baby around to siblings' activites...but having to do that with a toddler/3/4year old. When they're not so amenable!

I have three brothers and much closer to the one nine yrs older than me than the one 2 yrs older than me.
I'm currently pregnant with number 3. My dc are 6 and 9 and will be 7 and 10 when number 3 arrives.