2 year age gap?

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Hi everyone,

Had my first baby 7 months ago, me and my partner are planning baby number two for when dc1 is 2 years old. Does anyone have experience of this age gap and how did you find it?

Thanks! :)

OP you've posted in 'one-child families'. You would be best asking for your post to be moved if you want replies.

I saw quite a few threads in here about 2nd children so thought it might be ok. I'll ask to move it anyway..

Dd was born 1 week before ds1’s 2nd birthday. I struggled with 2 young ones while my dh worked early starts through to evening. Ds1 was a challenging toddler too.

However I think if there was 18 months between them, or 3 years i’d probably have felt the same!

Had ds2 10 months ago, older dc were 8 & 10 at that point. Finding it a breeze 😬

Why would you ask parents of one child families for advice on the ideal age gap?

@PenApple thanks for your reply. Yes I suppose that's true actually!

@DoneAdulting as I said above, there a fair few posts about having 2nd children on here.. The other option is larger families and I don't think 2 kids is a large family.
Plus at this moment in time, I have a 1 child family.

Maybe the parenting topic would be better x

My ds was born 4 weeks before my dds 2nd birthday. They are only 1 and 3 now but so far loving age gap - not sure what it will be like in a year from now

OP the threads that are about second children here are largely either 'not decided if I should have another, do I stick with one' or 'DP doesn't want another' threads.

They aren't posted by people who already have 2 children who can respond to your query so it was a really strange choice. You have a one child family now but this wasn't the best place to post.

Bear in mind some people here have one child by choice and some because that's just how it's worked out.

Ds1 was 2you when Ds2 came along. Ds2 slotted in to our existing nap schedule with ds1 and we knew more about what we were doing 2nd time around. Ds1 didn't really know what to make of Ds2 but they are very good buddies now at 4 and 2yo. It is hard but now Ds2 is out of the baby stage everything is much easier.

@princesspeppaxn @CloudCaptain Aw that's sweet that the age gap works out nicely when they're older. I thought it would be nice then, just really hard work in the early days, suppose there's no getting around that part!