18 month age gaps?

[bbbbbbb811]

We want our next child to be close in age to our youngest. And would like to hear from some mum's who have experience!
Is the pregnancy more difficult/less healthy after only 9 months of not being pregnant?
And would you say it's more or less challenging than a bigger age gap?
I don't mind if it's more challenging, so be honest! But I would like to be prepared

 

[Buttercup84]

I'm still fairly early but if all goes well with this pregnancy our second and third will be 18 months apart. So far I don't feel too awful but i'm definitely feeling the first tri tiredness a lot more this time around now I have 2 little ones to look after. I personally found the 2y9m age gap between DD1 and DD2 quite hard going as DD1 is still quite jealous of her sister and it was part of the reason we've gone for a smaller gap this time around.

 

[CaptainMummy]

I got pregnant when dd2 was 4 months old. I found the pregnancy as easy as my others (I have been VERY lucky!)

I have a 2.5yr gap between my first and second, and that was definitely easier, but the 13 month gap between the littlest hasnt been as hard as I thought. It is difficult, dont get me wrong, but I love it

 

[catty]

We have an 11.5 month age gap and I honestly love it! They really entertain each other and now were a year in I can actually have a seat sometimes whilst they play!
they fight often but first thing in the morning they want each other. there also into the same toys and are developmentally similar (daughter quick at learning son a little bit behind) so they play with the same toys. they nap at the same time too. My pregnancy was very tiring but I imahine it would be harder having an older toddler to run after, my son still had 2 naps a day when daughter was born

 

[mummytobe_93]

We want our next child to be close in age to our youngest. And would like to hear from some mum's who have experience!
Is the pregnancy more difficult/less healthy after only 9 months of not being pregnant?
And would you say it's more or less challenging than a bigger age gap?
I don't mind if it's more challenging, so be honest! But I would like to be prepared

I am 36 weeks pregnant and my daughter will be 19/20 months when baby is born. So far can only talk about pregnancy rather than the actual age gap.

First three/ four months were horrendous as I was so unwell. But after that it's been fine! I've felt pretty good, my toddler is rough and jumps on me a lot so that's quite frustrating and obviously she is too young to understand that she has to be gentle around mummy.

I've felt like I've been able to do everything I could with my daughter, because I've had a fairly easy pregnancy but I imagine if you were to have a high risk pregnancy it would be so hard. I've been none stop all day every day, still have the odd sleepless night and teething episodes so obviously can be exhausting time too time.

When I first found out I was pregnant when daughter was 10 months I assumed that my daughter would be talking more than she is now (communication is an issue, and she has billions of tantrums a day because I don't know what she wants!) I guess I just assumed she would be 'older' than what she is by now but she is very much still q baby in a toddler sized body.

I think it's going to be difficult im going to have 2 waking up in the night from time too time, my daughter needs stimulation constantly and i have to go out every day bwcause she's a nightmare in the house so there will be no down time, no relaxing, no sleep basically but I'm looking forward to it!

I'm expecting the first few years to be hard but once they are older im hoping they will be the best of friends. X