Would having a sibling after 7 years of being an only enrich your life or hinder it?

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Just looking for experiences of people who have been in this situation either as children or as parents who have had an only and then had a second much later

Thanks for comments.. food for thought

Anyone who has had two children this far apart?

I have a 5 dd year old and 4 month old ds so not quite as big gap. She has been very jealous to be honest as she had always had my full attention and we are very very close and she ideally wanted a sister 😁 she has never held him and ignores him most of the time but she has never really been into dolls and that so wasn't expecting her to want to get too involved. She is obsessed with animals so a new pet would is more interesting for her!

It is gradually improving though. She has started to try and make him laugh and even asked for him to stay up late so he could watch the fireworks with her. I think alot is to do with the children's personalities. My friends little girl same age gap absolutely dotes on her new sibling but again she is more into dolls and enjoys helping look after the baby...

My ds was almost 6 when his brother was born.
Everyone thought he would be jealous after being an only child for so long.
I tried to keep everything as normal as possible for him so that he could continue all the things he did when he was an only child.
The baby is 4 months old now, ds is 6 and he loves him to pieces. There was never any jealousy from day 1. I went to get the baby's bottle this morning, when I came back up ds was talking to him in his crib telling him he really loves him. It has definitely enriched his life.

With our 2 it was never a case of jealousy , they just didn’t get on .