Making Siblings

Sporkmoostipe

I'm curious to know when others are planning on having more babies, or had more babies....Obviously, not ready to have another little one just yet but it's something I was thinking about. How far apart did you space your children, or are planning on doing?

Just wanting to see what other people's perspectives are.  

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shanniebananie

My first 2 are 2 years and 4 months apart and then T-rex came along nearly 7 years after my 1st daughter, though initially we were shooting for a 4-5 year age gap. We planned this one to be about 2-3 years after T. I think it's just whenever you're ready and that's the right age gap for you. 

cmorganopie

I am a fan of far apart spacing. I have a Daughter that will be 17 in January and another Daughter that just turned 7 in August and am expecting my son in December. I will admit that my Son was a surprise but a welcome one. I had been on depo for a year between the girls but nothing after my 7 year old. I guess what they say about being blessed when it's right is the truth.

 

Raffes484

DD and DS1 are 19-1/2 months apart. DS1 and DS2 are going to be 18 months apart. It can be stressful, but watching my kids play together and love on each other is amazing!

authorofdreamz

I am planning on waiting three years so that my first will be in school by the time I am pregnant with my second.

Drea1771

14 years! But they will be half siblings. My son actually just became a big brother in August when his father and his new wife had a baby. Two siblings in 3 months after being an only for 14 years!

MrsG.060708

Our girls are 2.5 years apart...I hope it's a good thing (like it is now) when they're older

mbgreenwalt

I got pregnant right around the time DD#1 turned 1 year.  They will be almost 21 months part.  It wasn't planned.  Our plan was to have them 2+ years apart.  We only wanted 2 though, so now we are done...if she ever decides to come out!

pghjen

We will start trying/seeing the RE again around Baby's first birthday.  I'm 35 and we had trouble getting pregnant with Baby #1.  We def. want a #2, so I don't see much reason to wait since we aren't getting any younger.

KBBH

I say this now, as I sit here BEGGING LO to join us in the world, and things may change after DH and I see what it's REALLY like to be parents, but our plan as of now is to start again when this LO (our first) is closing in on a year.  That way, they'll be about 20 months apart.  We are both in our mid/late 30s (I JUST turned 35 and DH is 38) so we don't want to wait too long.

adri77

I got pg with Ds2 when DS1 was 13 months old.  DS1 was SUCH an easy baby!!  So I was ready!!!  DS2 was a different story....he didn't even sleep through the night till he was 12 months old!!!  He was still up nursing till this time and I finaly weaned him!  Baby #3 and DS1 will be almost exactly 5 years apart and DS2 and new baby 3 years apart....I'm anticipating it being a rougher adjustment for all this time around.

diddlenation

The space i wanted between them and what ended up being the case is about a year different.  We hoped to have our second last year but had a miscarriage.  So now our son will be 2 years and 9 months when his sister is born on Friday.  I think it is going to be very tough for my son.  He is a huge momma's boy.  Today was my first day of maternity leave and my husband took him to day care and he threw a full on meltdown that i wasn't taking him.  

ellehinck

We had trouble getting (well, really, staying) pregnant, so we're planning to start trying again after LO is around one.  Don't want to wait too long in case we have trouble again.

knottie198f1ac43570b6c2

It's not an elaborate answer, but I don't plan on having any more after this one. 

honeybee #1

At this point we aren't planning on having any more kids. It seems like our two from DH previous marriage and one more are plenty enough. But we aren't going to completely rule out the possibility either, if we decide we want more kids later then we'll revisit the subject.

ashleylach

I'm pretty young (24 almost 25 in January) and I don't plan on having another until I'm closer to 30. 

Mrs.Greeko

My first was 6 weeks away from turning 3 when my second was born.  Not what we had planned.  We had wanted to start trying when she was 15 months old, but DH deployed at that exact time so we obviously couldn't start trying until he returned.    The spacing was beautiful though.  My oldest was relatively self sufficient and a lot easier at that point and even with three years between them they are the best of friends and play together very well.

This little guy will be born when my middle is 2.5 years old and my oldest is almost 5.5 years old.  My 2.5 year old is super ridiculously clingy and hard to deal with right now so I'm really dreading the transition.  It definitely isn't going to go as smoothly as it did the first time.  Maybe it would have been better to wait a few more months, who knows?  Again our timeline was to start trying when she was 15 months and we did get pregnant and would have been due two months after she turned 2, but lost that baby.  Looking back it was probably a blessing in disguise, that would have been too close for me.  I think closer to 3 years apart is probably best for us.  2.5 years will hopefully be okay.