What do you consider to be small/average/large age gap between siblings?

[littlepinkhouse]

I guess it’s down to personal opinion but as the title says.
I think a small age gap is anything less then 2 years, average 2-4years and large 4.5 years+

I would probably agree but also wouldn't think anything remarkable about an age gap until it reached about 8+, that’s when I’d tend to think that it would be a big shock going back to the baby years again. My two are 4.5 years apart and that definitely seems like a relatively large gap (and larger than we planned) but it’s still a pretty common gap going by the families we know.

I agree with your gaps @littlepinkhouse. I think 4+ years is becoming more common as people try to have the elder child in school before the younger one starts nursery.

Small... under 1.5years
Average... 2-4
Large 5+

Its blurry between 1.5-2 years and between 4-5 years. Not quite average and not quite small/large.

There’s 24 years between me and my brother, that’s large. My DD’s are 15 months apart.

My son and his baby sibling will be 5.5 years apart. Definitely a bigger gap than I wanted, I always thought anything over 5 years was a pretty big gap! Average I’d say is around 2-3 years from people I know, small gap would be 2 under 2 (my worst nightmare 🙈😂)

I would say average is two years. Interesting that people think large gaps are becoming more common, I guessed the opposite because more people are having their first later in life.

The median age gap is 36 months in the UK so I'd say that is the average (more of a matter of statistics than personal opinion). I'd consider 18m or under to be small (occurs in 15% of cases) and I'd consider over 6 years to be large. 4.5 years is only a bit bigger than the statistical average so I wouldn't consider it to be a large gap.

The most common age gap according to the ONS is 30-36 months, which fits in with my social circle. The overall average age gap has declined from 2.5 years in the 1990s to 2 years now. I think this is often due to women having their first baby later, and then having to rush to have a second before their body clock runs out.

Now that people are trying not to have the expense of more than one child in childcare at a time, I would think we will see bigger gaps.

I have five children all born within seven years. I do not recommend this.

I have 14 months gap then 20 months gap, so anything over 2 years seems 'big' to me. I love having small age gaps.

I'd like a 4th child now after being sure I was done, but I'm not sure as my youngest is 4 now - a 5 year gap seems so massive. My sisters are 6.5, 9 and 11 years younger and I always hated it because it was always sort of them all together then me by myself. So if I have a 4th I'd personally need to have a 5th a year later too.