Basically I'm asking... how far apart would you prefer your children to be?

My kids are about 1 year apart

My kids are 19 months apart.....well 3 days shy of being 20 months apart. I got pregnant with our 2nd when DD was a year apart. I ended up having our 2nd at 34 weeks so that put them a little closer together than we planned.

Ideally I'd like it to be 2 years but we aren't in a good enough position right now to start TTC #2 so the age difference will be bigger than that

I would prefer our next to be about 2 years difference in age from Cameron. I think dh would like them a little closer together though. I just don't think we're really ready to start trying for another baby right now.

I would prefer our next to be about 2 years difference in age from Cameron. I think dh would like them a little closer together though. I just don't think we're really ready to start trying for another baby right now.

ok i gotta threadjack for a second
in your siggy, the pic of your lil boy... that third pic.. he kinda looks like he is saying 'oh NO she DI-INT!'

and its making me VERY happy :D
(hes adorable!)

ok im done now..

ok... I wanted mine to be 29 months apart, but we are just starting to TTC #2 nd our daughter is 26 months...so that won't happen...lol...now we're aiming at having another baby right after she turns 3... which means we need to get pregnant about February...*fingers crossed*

I'm 2 yrs older than my sister and we couldn't be closer... (L) and also 2 yrs younger than my older brother and we are great friends.


P.S. ......wife-n-mommy, here's some :bbdust ... :goodluck!!!!!!!

Mine are 25 months apart. It is great!

Mine are 3 years apart and it has worked out pretty well. The only reason I don't really want to wait another 3 years for another one is that I'd like to be done having kids by the time I'm 30. I have 1 more year left so we'll see how it goes:D

about 2 years

If I have it our way, Ethan and #2 will be about 5 years apart or less. I would like for Ethan to at least be in Kindergarten or preschool before #2 comes along. That way I can devote as much attention to #2 as I gave to #1. Plus I'll already have my Bachelors degree in hand too!!!

Ethan IS 10000000000% boy that I'd be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO exhausted if I had another baby to take care of at the moment, much less being preggo...lol!

Sorry I had to put other. Breanna and Johnny are 4 1/2 years apart. It works out great. They get along and she is a big help. She is 6 years older than Evan and really good with him as well. The boys are 19 months apart and that seems to be really well with them. I can't say what my ideal would be since I love the age difference with all my kids and each one is different. If we did have another one I wouldn't want to get pg for another 3-4 years.

I say no more than 2 years.

I think it really comes down to how the parents raise the kids, my sister and I are 5 years apart and really close and my brother and I are 2 years apart and cannot stand to be around each other half the time although that is getting better as we get older. I would say somewhere from 2-4 years difference if I had to.

my boys are 4 years apart super close still but that might be because they are both boys. it is perfect because my oldest Ethan could help with the baby. he could help fetch diapers or wipes and he could entertain him if i was in the shower and he woke up at naptime and knew he couldn't try to pick him up. i twas nice. then when he started school a year later it gave me one on one with the baby it was really really nice. i wouldn't have kids more than 3 years together.

I want my kids to be a few years apart because if they are too close I would probably get overwhelmed.

18-38 mos would be ideal for us. Jaxon and Shelby were 30 months apart and it was great. Shelby and Hunter are 15 months apart and that seemed a little hard for the first two months or so but then it was great.

My girls are 5 years apart and I LOVE it.

I put other, because I dont think there is a perfect age difference :D
Mine are ten years apart (NOT BY CHOICE) and honestly its a lot better than I thought it would be. I would like another one VERY soon though so I can see how the other half lives :lol

My girls are exactly 2 years and 2 months a part.
I love it.

They share clothes, and shoes. I couldn't have planned it better, even if they weren't planned..LOL

I wanted my babies about 3 years apart and my dh wanted them 5 years apart...ours will be 3 years and 8 months apart. Like Victoria...I have one that is 10000000% boy too and I think this age gap will work great for us. I also agree with Kat, there is no perfect gap, it's what's right for you.

When and if I have kids, I want them to be really close together. My sister and I were 13 months apart and it worked so well for us and enabled us to be so close. I think that the age difference had a lot to do with it. So, I would want to do the same thing with my own kids.

Well, I think there can be positives with varying age differences. My oldest two are 2 yrs 8 months apart and very close with one another. Then there is a 7 yr 1 month difference between oldest and youngest, and a 4 yr 5 month difference between the middle two. I like the relationship of each group....the oldest looks out for the youngest quite a bit and the middle takes her under her wing, doing things with her, etc.

Mine are 2 days shy of a year and I love it. I'd like all of them to be about 1-2 years apart though that won't happen becuase we'd have to be pregnant now and we're not yet. :(

I say 3 years apart after the first child is out of pampers and on his/her way to being potty trained. But mines were planned to be so far apart. #1 and #2 are 5 years apart and #2 and #3 are 6 years apart. So now I see it as after one girls is out of college the other one will be on her way. I am happy that we will have only one child in college at one time I have heard stories of people having more than one child in college at a time in different schools.

I had wanted mine to be about 2-3 years apart, but that didn't end up happening for various reasons.
We won't be TTC until 2009 sometime due to deployments and such, so DS will be like 7 or 8 years older.
I don't think there is a perfect age gap though, I think all of them have their good points and bad points.

I put other, because I dont think there is a perfect age difference :D
Mine are ten years apart (NOT BY CHOICE) and honestly its a lot better than I thought it would be. I would like another one VERY soon though so I can see how the other half lives :lol


I win so far. Mine are 12 years apart, :ohsnap, doctor, what the hell do you mean I am pregnant?

If we have anymore I am thinking we are going to wait for a 5 year spacing.

I like the kids two years apart. R and T are just less than 2 years and T and L are 2.5 years apart.

i want to have my kids far apart. 5 years is my ideal. but that could change i have awhile to think.

I'd have to say 2 years... but that could totally change when I start actually having children!! :)

my oldest ds and my middle ds are about 21 months apart and my middle ds and my dd are about 2yrs and 4 mths
so i have a 5 yr old, a 3 yr old and a 13 mth old

if I was going to have another one i would say 3 years but my child is already 4 so......:happy

I think sometimes too, it depends more on the personalities of the child as opposed to the actual age difference but I :dunno.

I am just talking too, because I don't have kids yet... but..

My sister and I are 11 years apart, and even though we just recently met/reconnected with each other, we get along great.

She has two boys... 16 months apart... 10 and 11 right now. And they fight ALL the time... ALL the time. Verbally and physically...and have yet to learn to respect each others differences... the older one just has the personality where he thinks it's cool to be the absolute center of attention, and do everything he can think of to get a rise out of his brother.

Our kids are 3 yrs apart and for us its prefect. Only 1 kid in diapers since DS is potty trained, he is very independent so he doesnt need to rely on us 24/7 so we can focus on DD a little more, DS is already in a twin bed so we only have 1 in a crib/toddler bed.

We plan on TTC when DD is around 2 or 2-1/2 so that they are all spaced about 3yrs. For us it just works !

Ours will be about 2.5 years apart. And thats about how far I wanted them to be. 2-3 years.

I want DS in kindergarten before I even THINK of TTC. :lol

My kids are 19 months apart and it's perfect.

I want DS in kindergarten before I even THINK of TTC. :lol

HAHAHA!!! Sounds like you have one who's 100000000000000000% boy too...LMAO!

I don't know that there is a 'perfect' difference in age......by the time we have another one....Morissa will be at least 12!!

I would say 2 years

My daughters are going to end up being either 20 or 21 months apart, depending on when DD #2 decides to grace us with her presnce... I don't think I ever would have picked to have them this close together, but since they are it's kind of nice... although I can honestly say I AM DONE! lol