Anyone have a 2.5/3 year age gap between DC?

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It's a bigger gap than I planned on, I sort of wanted to get the baby years out the way in one go. What's it like? How hard was it?

That is the age gap between me and my DSis. My DM seemed to love it; I adored my baby sister and 'helped' to look after her. As she got a smidgen older, we played together. She is my best friend.

Just over 3 years between my two. It's definitely worked for us, dc1 was that bit older and able to understand when dc2 arrived. She was born by emcs and he helped by fetching things. Zero jealousy, wanted to help out. He was out of the pushchair and toilet trained by the time she was born which really helped as well. They are now 5 and 2, they share a room through choice, played great through lockdown and get on really well.

2.2 years. 2 years and 8 months now and 6 months. So far it's great, but we have been blessed with a very content second baby. First was not so. 😂

Me and my DC have thisge gap. It is quite hard on the older one I think. But me and dsis are now very close. I resented her for a long time. Ds1 is also quite insecure and always feels ds2 is the favourite even though I bend over backwards for him.

Ours also out of pushchair and has liked to help by getting nappies, clothes etc. Still trying to toilet train though, which i believe is a pain in the arse whatever 😂

Hardly a big gap at all, its a pretty normal age gap isn't it?

2 years and 8 months here, which is similar to the gap between me and my brother. I did find it hard when my little one was young because they were at such different stages and it was difficult to find something for us all to play together. But all good now! I think it’s a great gap

3y 3m between ours. My ideal gap was 1 year!

It has worked incredibly well. They are the best of friends, even now ds1 is a teen. There were no issues of jealousy or anything like that.

Really not what I expected.

I liked this age gap. DS was almost 3 when DD1 arrived. By this time he had been completely toilet trained for 6 months, was a great sleeper and no longer used a pram. He was also old enough to understand that he had to wait if I was feeding etc. DD1 was only nearly 2 when DD2 arrived so was still in nappies and had to get a buggy board for pram. They all play really well together so no problems with that but the slightly bigger age gap definitely helped me.