'Little Ones Close in Age' Please join us - Page 4

Animaniacs · Jul 10th, 2011, 10:40 AM

My kids are 16 months apart (now 5 & 6) and they are great friends. I'm now having a third, but I love the close age gap between my kids. They play together all the time and it does get easier with time. We wer also in and out of diapers much quicker than people who spaced out their kids more. They are still in diapers with their second. Enjoy your babies!

KellyC75 · Jul 10th, 2011, 11:06 AM

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My kids are 16 months apart (now 5 & 6) and they are great friends. I'm now having a third, but I love the close age gap between my kids. They play together all the time and it does get easier with time. We wer also in and out of diapers much quicker than people who spaced out their kids more. They are still in diapers with their second. Enjoy your babies!

Hello

I notice your two kiddies that are close together are a Boy & a Girl ~ Do you think they are just as close as if they were the same gender?

Ju_bubbs · Jul 10th, 2011, 13:41 PM

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Hello to everyone that has joined this thread

Lovely to hear from you & hopefully we can support one another

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My youngest is 6 months, and im 8 weeks pregnant too! Ive been coping with tiredness ok over the last few weeks, since OH was getting up to do the 6am feed... but, he upped and left yesterday, and i'm already struggling really badly!! Probably doesn't help that I'm having awful trouble sleeping too tho lol

Hiya

Im so sorry to read your Hubby has upped & left, do you mean you have split?

Tell me to mind my own business if you like!

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Yeah we split up a couple of days ago.. he sudden;y decided that he couldn't hack the family lifestyle, and left about 5 minutes later!

QueSeraSera · Jul 10th, 2011, 14:11 PM

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Originally Posted by KellyC75

Hello to everyone that has joined this thread

Lovely to hear from you & hopefully we can support one another

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Originally Posted by Ju_bubbs

My youngest is 6 months, and im 8 weeks pregnant too! Ive been coping with tiredness ok over the last few weeks, since OH was getting up to do the 6am feed... but, he upped and left yesterday, and i'm already struggling really badly!! Probably doesn't help that I'm having awful trouble sleeping too tho lol

Hiya

Im so sorry to read your Hubby has upped & left, do you mean you have split?

Tell me to mind my own business if you like!

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Yeah we split up a couple of days ago.. he sudden;y decided that he couldn't hack the family lifestyle, and left about 5 minutes later!

wow. i am so sorry! men sometimes... :-/ i hope that you are doing well and coping with everything as well as possible!

Ju_bubbs · Jul 10th, 2011, 14:23 PM

Thanks.. I'm coping as well as can be expected, luckily i'm real close with my older kids dad, so he's doing as much as he can to help out at the moment!

you&me · Jul 10th, 2011, 14:27 PM

Ju-bubbs...I hope he comes around, and you can sort things out, if that is what you want.

Kelly...it was a gender scan we had at babybond...(not telling family the gender, so it's hush hush other than on here) but after 2 step daughters...and 2 daughter's of our own...we are having a baby BOY!!!!

rachieroo · Jul 10th, 2011, 14:43 PM

Hey ladies im 12 weeks pregnant tomorrow and my DD is 9 months, im soooo nervous about coping as there will be a 16 month age gap! ah well too late to worry now!! xxx

KellyC75 · Jul 10th, 2011, 15:22 PM

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Yeah we split up a couple of days ago.. he sudden;y decided that he couldn't hack the family lifestyle, and left about 5 minutes later!

Im so sorry ~

What a shock for you at such an important time of your life

Had you been together long

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Kelly...it was a gender scan we had at babybond...(not telling family the gender, so it's hush hush other than on here) but after 2 step daughters...and 2 daughter's of our own...we are having a baby BOY!!!!

Im sooooo happy for you ~ Many Congrats

Mayby that is why you are having such a different pregnancy

KellyC75 · Jul 10th, 2011, 15:23 PM

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Hey ladies im 12 weeks pregnant tomorrow and my DD is 9 months, im soooo nervous about coping as there will be a 16 month age gap! ah well too late to worry now!! xxx

Thats just what I keep telling myself!

We will cope, we have no choice!

suzzle · Jul 10th, 2011, 16:02 PM

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I speak from experience! My boys, now 7 & 6 were born 16 months apart. Yes, you will be exhausted, yes you will spend what feels like a lifetime surrounded by nappies and bottles BUT, they are now so close! It really is true, they will be friends for life. Sure, they have the odd spat now and again & drive me nuts; but after having the same thoughts about whether the oldest was losing out on infancy and would resent the youngest, I can honestly say it all works out! Eldest refused to address the youngest as anything other than 'baby' for the first 3 months, lol. I even started an undergraduate degree when youngest was 10 weeks so I had mixed emotions about that too, but now having been through it all, it really does work out like people say - so hang in there! Incidentally, neither of them know yet about their impending sibling, but again, at least they have each other to go through it all with

Happy to help! Not sure about the different gender thing being an issue, I'm sure it certainly helped that they were both boys & into the same things but that's only been my experience. Hopefully someone who has had a girl & boy close together will get in touch soon

Also, sorry for the delayed response! Had youngests birthday party today so have been scurrying around sorting things for that. Hope you are well, I am currently suffering from a bout of self induced indigestion - it though

Aww ~ Thankyou for that lovely post

That was just what the Doctor ordered

Im so glad your Boys are so close

I do wonder if this new LO is a Boy if my DD will be so close, rather than if it is another Girl?

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Animaniacs Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 576	My kids are 16 months apart (now 5 & 6) and they are great friends. I'm now having a third, but I love the close age gap between my kids. They play together all the time and it does get easier with time. We wer also in and out of diapers much quicker than people who spaced out their kids more. They are still in diapers with their second. Enjoy your babies!

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Ju_bubbs Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5,175	Thanks.. I'm coping as well as can be expected, luckily i'm real close with my older kids dad, so he's doing as much as he can to help out at the moment!

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you&me Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Letchworth, Hertfordshire Posts: 3,263	Ju-bubbs...I hope he comes around, and you can sort things out, if that is what you want. Kelly...it was a gender scan we had at babybond...(not telling family the gender, so it's hush hush other than on here) but after 2 step daughters...and 2 daughter's of our own...we are having a baby BOY!!!!

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rachieroo Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Pembrokeshire, UK Posts: 455	Hey ladies im 12 weeks pregnant tomorrow and my DD is 9 months, im soooo nervous about coping as there will be a 16 month age gap! ah well too late to worry now!! xxx

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