11 month age gap… is it doable?!

[Bambamxx]

So I’ve just found out a couple of days of go I’m pregnant again after having my DS only in May. As you can imagine I’m in complete shock and so many thoughts are running through my head!
anyone else have an incredibly close age gap?!

It'll be fine, you won't know any different!

Congratulations 💕
I dont have experience with that, but I did try to get pregnant immediately after having my child. I honestly wanted to be back in that hospital within the year after giving birth, I thought it would be better having another close together but that didn’t work out for me.
It will be lovely for them growing up with a sibling closing age…
How are you feeling about it?

Congratulations! Not me personally but one of my best friends has almost exactly a 9 month age gap, fell pregnant pretty much immediately after giving birth. Both boys and always now mistaken for twins at 2 & 3! X

My two eldest are 10 months apart, tbh you just cope with any age gap. The thing I found worse was the guilt of eldest not having enough time as an only child before I had to share my time with her. Ive got 5 kids and all sorts of different age combinations (even had 3 under 3 at one point) but at the end of the day you just get on with it because you have no choice 🤷🏻‍♀️

Congratulations!!! You’ll be absolutely fine. Yes, it will be mental for a bit, but you’ll love it.
I have 14m between mine and I’d do it all over again if I could.

Me and my sister were a year apart. This was not my mum's struggle. It was the boys that came after for her. So I think it depends on the babies. If they get on a close gap is easier in the long run.

My mum had 4 under 5. Not easy but she did go on to have 2 more!

Thank you.. I’m petrified in all honesty!! Not sure what to think or do!

My middle two children are 11 months apart - they're are in their early twenties now and are very close despite having very different personalities.

It was very hard work when they were little, especially the pregnancy with the younger one when I had a baby and a 4 year old to care for already. However, overall it has been brilliant and their relationship is lovely to see.

One word of advice is to look after yourself nutritionally - it took a toll on my body having two very close together, especially as I kept breast feeding the older one until I was about 7 months pregnant with the younger one.

Hope all goes well for you x

Congratulations. My sister and I are 10 months apart and it's great. My mum has always said she didn't know any different and just got on with it so it was fine. I think, at times, it made life easier because we'd do similar things at the same time or youngest would copy the eldest so things like toilet training all happened really quickly. We went through school in the same year and had the same friends. Now we're adults we're really close friends and our children are close in age too. I always wanted the same age gap for my kids but had a difficult recovery first time round so it wasn't to be. I'm sure it'll be tough going but you'll get all the baby/toddler hard work over far quicker and it'll be lots of fun for you all. Embrace the chaos!

I had exactly 12 months between my two youngest ..it was hard work but great at the same time! I look back and remember those times as being THE best in my whole life (early 60’s now).

little sleep but each day I had the freedom to do what I wanted with them: play groups, mums n tots, park, shopping, going to the seaside. It beat being stuck in an office in front of a computer screen which I’d done for 25 years prior!

enjoy!