What was it like to go from 2 to 3?

[Toli]

Just that really, interested to hear what it's like going from two to three children, particularly if they're close in age?

Really hard. Everyone I know who has three said it was a big leap - I didn't believe them... more fool me.

Youngest is now 2, so it's a bit easier but it's still hard to sort them all out.

Me too - really hard. 🤪 2 years between each of mine - I had a newborn, a toddler & eldest starting school, all with a failing (now failed) marriage.
It was so hard.
Even without the marriage issues, there wasn't enough of me to go around 😕

What's harder- one to two or two to three?

I found the jump from 2-3 fine, so much so I was pregnant with dc4 when dc3 was 14 weeks old.
Dc3 was the easiest baby though and slept through from 8 weeks old 7-7 with a dream feed at 11.
The jump from 3-4 was ridiculously hard though I'm not sure I'm over it yet and the youngest is 4

It changed everything. Suddenly you don’t have enough hands for each child and suddenly the children outnumber the adults. Now they’re older and have lots of activities and parties it becomes insane. We need to be in three different places but there are only two of us.
You’ll rarely have one hotel room again. Riding a roller coaster? Getting seats on the bus? Going down waterslides on tubes? Almost everything you are supposed to do with children is set up in twos and fours. And you can say good-bye to the four-seater tables at restaurants – or quick seating. Yes, you can get those larger tables with six or eight chairs, but restaurants seldom have more than two, and the wait takes twice as long.
Someone is often left out or it’s two against one. The youngest two will play together while the eldest mopes, or the older two will play together while the youngest mopes.
There is also the fact that having a third prolongs everything and this is both a joy and a pain in equal measure. My youngest, for example, still watches CBeebies. So I will probably have been listening to the bedtime story (no bad thing if it’s read by Tom Hardy) and pretending to ride the Ninky Nonk for about eight years.
Will all that said, I wouldn’t change a thing and think that the advantages of having two siblings definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

It's hard. But I found going from 1 to 2 harder, because there's less than 18 months between them. There's under four years between my eldest & my youngest, so they are close in age. It's been worth it though & I've loved having three. And now they are grown up I've forgotten the worst bits

I haven't got 3 I have 2. That's because I have 2 hands - I cannot imagine how I would have coped with 3 as a result .

Good luck I imagine you already know you will

I’m planning a 3rd next year. My baby is only 3 months old, but my eldest is 10 this year. I’m hoping that will make going from 2-3 somewhat easier? —wishful thinking—

I find going from 1-2 with a large age gap very difficult. It’s like starting all over again and they have zero in common and obviously a totally different routine