i love the gap between mine. my son is going to be four in july. my older daughter is 18 months and, my youngest was born yesterday!

I am the oldest with two younger brothers. I was 2 years, 9 months when my first brother was born and 7 years, 8 months when the second was born. I think it’s worked well for us. We are now 20.5, (almost) 18, and (almost) 13 and get along really well.

I think it is WONDERFUL that she is expecting again. I have 3 boys ages 4,3, and 1, and they are the best of friends. I wouldn’t have it any other way!!!!!

i am currently 31 weeks pregnant with my second. my first son just turned 4 and i think that the age difference is perfect. i wouldnt have wanted to have them any closer.

I personally think a 3 1/2 year space is ideal. Only having one in diapers was a big plus for us!! This time around it’s a 5 year difference…it’s like we are starting all over..can’t wait!

Personally, I think it all comes down to what the parents think they can handle and what their finances will allow them to handle. And sometimes it’s out of their control and they make do somehow.

But, I have five siblings, three of which were grown and lived elsewhere by the time I was born. The two I did grow up with, two of my brothers, have eight and nearly five years on me. I’m closer to the one who is eight years my senior than the other. I think the difficult bond started the moment I came two days before his fifth birthday. LMAO. But, we’re cool now that we’re older. We can co-exist.

So, the years have nothing to do with what kind of bond is formed between children, if you ask me.

Anyway, I am excited for Melissa and Mark. Maybe they can have a girl and have one of each, although another sweet boy like Mason would be good too.

I think sometimes people forget that one can make all kinds of plans on when they’re going to have their children, but many times things don’t just happen on cue and age gaps just happen the way life makes them fall. My older two are 2 1/2 yrs apart, but it took almost 3yrs to conceive (naturally) the baby i’m pregnant with now, so there’ll be a six year gap between my 2nd and 3rd, not planned that way, but just as wonderful!

Don’t have kids yet, but my sister and I are 3 1/2 yrs apart. I think for the most part it’s great. It would be really hard, I think if she were any closer because it would be more competitive, especially if we went to school together. We are very close, but still do fight sometimes. The hardest time was when I was 13-14, and she was about 10. Before that, we were best friends, and I spent my time playing with her at home. Suddenly, I was going out with my friends, and not spending as much time with her, and it was really hard for her to understand. Now, we’re in high school together, but her being a freshman and me being a senior, there’s not that competition between friends and such. I think it’s a really good age. My parents never had another kid, because they were so busy, but my mom says she would have liked to have another baby around the time my sister was entering Kindergarten, so that would have been a 5 year difference.

Congrats to MJH!!

although i dont have children, my sister and i are almost exactly a year apart..(1 year..two weeks)..it was great when we were kids because being so close in age, we enjoyed doing the same things and always had eachother to hang around with…