I won't be able to treat mine the same in lots of respects.
The biggest ones are the fact that for DS1, although I went back to college when he was 6 months, it was 2.5 days a week. My course finished when he was 15 months, and then I was at home with him til the month after his 2nd birthday when I started uni. So he had me around a lot more than DS2 will.
I can't do anything to change that.
DS1 I was working 60 hour weeks and studying too from 2 til he was 6 when I finally stopped doing over time. I will never do that again so DS2 will have more of me in those years than his brother did. Hopefully.
Again, I can't change that. :(
DS2 is having much more social interaction with other babies than his brother did, and I think a better start to life. I couldn't afford baby groups, there weren't many around, and I was always the odd one out being very young. I didn't want to mix with others the same age as me, as I was always very very different to my peer group, and did not get on with them until recently when they all started growing up too!. But then I didn't have much in common with mums who were older than me either.
11 years has made a big difference. I've decided its swings and roundabouts. I can't treat them the same because circumstance doesn't allow. But the love I give them is just the same, and I hope they will know that.
Feel sad now as I can't offer DS1 the same opportunities as DS2.