So today I found out we are having a girl (I already have a boy) I was super happy, however when I’ve come home I’ve started to feel a little overwhelmed, my son turns two in June, meaning he will be 2 years & 2 months (26 months) when the baby is born. Does anyone else have this age gap, that can let me know what it is like for them?
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I have a similar age gap & it’s an adjustment but I think it is at any age.
If you can’t keep your son in as much as his routine as you can, any childcare etc. we also put ours in a bed before the baby arrived to keep cot.
They will soon have similar interests so easier to do stuff that entertains them both too.
It’s not easy, it never is, you’ll feel torn at times, but the love just grows

Majority of my siblings and I are 2 years apart. They’re 6 of us. We loved it.

I have this age gap and my kids are now 10 and 12 and they argue like cat and dog 🤣

Mine are 2.5 years apart, boy first then girl. They’re so cute together. They just love each other. They get so happy to see each other (like when my boy wakes up his sister goes running to greet him at the bottom of the stairs, or when he gets home from preschool he’ll run straight past me to find his sister. They hold hands in the car whenever we go anywhere. My boy always shares his food with his sister, or will let her push the button for the traffic lights (which he always loved to do). Just little things, but the two of them are honestly so adorable.
But the first year was tough, it’s a big adjustment for your older child and there are a lot of big feelings and they’re too little to understand or manage their impulses. So you’re watching them like a hawk constantly.
But as they grow they just get so close and have such a lovely bond ❤️

So my girls are 2 years apart and when they were younger it was great ye theyd have the odd argument eveey nlw and then but they generally got along well....now they are teenagers it is horrific ...doesnt help that they couldnt be more different and same sex aswell ....its constant battles with them as they continue to act like they hate one and other 🤦♀️ its not easy but has its rewards although not many in the teenage years. 😅 xx

It’s hard I ain’t gonna lie my little girl is 2 and my boy has just turned 1. It’s very very hard but the bond they have is so worth all the struggles x