2 year age gap! How was it for you?

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Only just found out I’m pregnant! Scared but happy

thisll leave us with a 2 year age gap I will be having a planned c section most likely due to previous one, so unless baby suprises us very early I’ll be going in around 39w!

meaning our DS will be 2 years old and a week off being 2 years 1 month old

so how was this for you?

im nervous as it’s still young for DS but I’m excited as they’ll be close

but please reassure me haha!

Congratulations op! I have 2 with exactly the same age gap. The first year was tough ... sleep was hard to come by. Now they're 10 & 8 and it's lots of fun. They are great friends and like lots of the same things. I would do the same again in a heartbeat.

@GalaxyStars Thank you for this! I am looking forward to that as my DS loves nursery and always has because he’s loved being around other kids :)

the sleep thing is scary because I feel like we’ve only just cracked the (nearly) sleeping through with him! Aha

Mine were 22 months apart. It worked out fine and they're still really close. The second felt much easier than the first,

It seems to be a good age gap op - They play for hours together and they're very sweet to one another. Sometimes they fall out but not often. I have always strongly encouraged them to be kind to each other and never set them up in competition with one another. They buy each other lovely presents at Christmas and birthdays etc.

The sleep thing was hard. The best advice I can give is to put the big one in nursery a few days a week and sleep whenever you can. Naps are your friend!!

Yes definitely try to get them to nap together at some point to give you that break! 2 years 2 months gap for us, two boys, planned section too.
Get ready your newborn bits and set up a toddler bits box both downstairs for when you come home. Snacks and TV for when you are feeding for all!
Good luck, you will be grand.

I have 22 months between first and second and 26 months between second and third. It was hard when they were all small as none slept particularly well and of course, when the baby is wanting feeding you become paranoid about them waking the toddler or pre-schooler but I survived! With them being so close it meant they were all at primary school together for a couple of years then each pair was at high school and secondary school meaning the elder could "protect" the younger if necessary

Wouldn't have done it any differently and it also meant that by the time the eldest was 8 I was done with nappies and naps and pureed food and milk and we could enjoy easier days out and holidays!!

It was amazing! Lots of fun and so easy now they're older and of a similar age.
Enjoy them OP!

If you asked me a year ago I would have said absolutely awful. But it's a lot better now and nice to see them playing together.

The first 6 months were really easy (even with a dreadful sleeping colicky second), especially the newborn stage. 6-18m were very very hard, with two mobile small children. It then got easier and now at 4&5 (but a nearly 2 year gap) they are close friends and wonderful. It's still harder than it was at the beginning though.

Just turned 2.5yo and a 3wo newborn here, so a teensy bit bigger of a gap. The age gap feels massive atm but I know that won't always feel the case and that's because the newborn is so...well, helplessly new 😆 we have just got into a rhythm and found our groove but I definitely think it will get harder when baby becomes mobile and starts taking the toddler's toys (and vice versa)! The toddler behaves so much better now we're back to getting out every day. How mobile will you be after a C-section?! Congratulations on your pregnancy!

My DCs are 23.5 months apart. They are18 and 20 now and have mostly been the best of friends. It was very hard when DC2 was a baby but I am very proud of their strong bond (I was scared they would see each other as rivals and fight)

Completely agree with @Babyboomtastic . Newborn days easy. Gets tricky when youngest can move and I found having a 1yr old and 3year old very hard as both challenging ages for different reasons. Much easier now.