Does anyone have a 6 year age gap?

[shaniahoo]

I'm expecting my second after secondary infertility and IVF 🙂 due October and DD will be turning 6 in November, will be in Year 1. I don't really know any other parents with an age gap this size, there's nobody pregnant or with a small baby in the playground. I figure the little one will be going into reception just as the big one starts Year 6! I feel weird about things like babyproofing my home again, or waking a lot in the night, now I've had a big girl for such a long time. Can anyone give me some advice on what to expect with an age gap this size? DD absolutely loves babies and has been desperate for a sibling for years but I still feel like this is such a huge change for all of us!

Yes I've got this age gap ish. Both girls. Eldest loved having a little baby sister as did her friends.
Lockdown was amazing, they really looked after each other.
Eldest is a teenager now and my youngest misses spending as much time together but I really think they will be best friends when they are older.

I am 6 years older than my brother and it's honestly great. I am 32 and he is 26 now and we are still really close.

Two DD's six years apart. It was perfect. Eldest helped out with her baby sister, used to help feed her, played with her, they had great fun in the bath together, read her bedtime stories, popped into her bed if she was upset. Also gave eldest an excellent excuse to keep playing with Barbies, kitchens and Sylvanians well into teens! Her friends also loved to come round under the same excuse! Youngest DD had a blessed life with all these older friends.

My brother is 6 years older than me and I worshiped the ground he walked on as a kid. He loved taking me places and looking after me too. There were some tricky moments when he was able to do things because he was 10 and I struggled being only 4, but honestly I get that now and I only have a 2 year gap with mine!! I'm sure you'll all have a great time together.

Mine had 6yr schooling gap.
Worked well for extra curriculars they didn't clash as dc1 was independent before DC2 started doing them.

When DC2 was in y6 2 or 3 of her class had siblings in yR.

Just had my DD2 in October and DD1 is 6.
I won't lie, it was a shock to the system. Think I got that used to DD1 being independent that I forgot a lot of things. It's been like learning again but it has slowly come back to me! Sleepless nights aren't great but don't impact DD1. Got the baby in a routine for bedtime asap so I get some one on one time with DD1 as she does sometimes say she feels like the babies stealing me all the time and we now have a mammy and DD1 day once a month just us.
DD1 is brilliant with her though, helps out massively and being 6 she understands a lot more than if it were a smaller gap. I wouldn't change it!

6.5 years between sister and I. We are not close never have been. Age gap in part to blame for this. Hugely different personalities very much to do with it too.

I have that age gap between my DDs and it’s lovely. They get on very well and now the oldest is a teenager, I get nagged can we go into town by ourselves etc. Sometimes we have to divide and conquer because youngest still likes soft play etc. and the eldest is very much beyond it but it’s easy enough to manage. There was a few of us with a similar age gap at the school gates!

We are trying for a baby and my dd is 13! 6 years is nothing x

Age gap of 6 years with my own brother. I resented he suddenly had all of my (previous only child's!) parents' attention and it felt like I was expected to step up from little kid to independent pretty quickly.

The age gap was too big to play together. What
12 year old girl wants to play with a 6 year old? And by the time he was 12, I was 18. Always in totally different life stages.

As adults I sense he'd like to he closer than I would but we are VERY different with personalities, which makes it hard to find common ground.

We share a sense of humour though.