https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:18:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-124419 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:14:27 +0000 LuLu Mom 124419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2-2/12 would be ideal. They may overlap in diapers for a short period of time depending on training, but I want them to be within a couple years of school together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-124137 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:15:59 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 124137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted 2.5 years but now they will be 22 months apart. Having a boy definitely takes longer to "potty train" so what's more diapers?! ha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-124135 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:14:39 +0000 PBandBaseball 124135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a sister who is 6 years younger and one who is 12 years younger. That gap is too big! I think I'd like to space them 2-3 years apart but we'll see what happens. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-123093 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:27:55 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 123093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: that's our thought. Get all the hard stuff out of the way all at once. So our girls are 21 months apart. Luckily Lala started potty training early! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-123090 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:20:35 +0000 HLK208 123090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had similar plans to you. I'm at SAHM so when DS was born I knew we couldn't buy a house until I went back to work. By the time DS was a year old, DH got a promotion at work and for 6 months we lived in my parents guest house to save money. In that time DH got another promotion. We then rented a house for nearly a year until we found our house and put down 3.5% for our FHA loan. We had been ttc all last summer while searching for a house. So, DS is now almost 3 and DD is due in 7 weeks.</p> <p>I'm planning on going back to school (at night) when DD is 6-9 months old and then by the time I finish DS will be in kindergarten and I'll only have to pay for daycare for DD (unless our parents retire by then). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-123065 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:39:24 +0000 dc yoga bee 123065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want a gap of no more than 2 yrs. It will be hard if it works out that way, but I want to get it out of the way so to speak, and raise them close in age going through a lot of the same things together. However, I also want to devote the 1st yr entirely to the first LO, so we will start trying right after 1yr birthday of future LO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-123063 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:35:30 +0000 BSB 123063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we got married, we wanted a big gap between our kids like 3-5 years. Well, since we are taking longer than expected to get pregnant and I'm getting older, I think I'm fine with them being 2 years apart. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120549 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:29:01 +0000 Mrs. Train 120549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My "plans" we're completely blow out of the water. My husband and I thought we would have two kids two to three years apart. Now I have four kids and my oldest is 3. When we couldn't get pregnant we adopted. 8.5 months later along comes ou twins. When we thought we would try for our girl we expected it to take awhile (three years to get pregnant the first time). 9 months later she was here. Nothing seemed to go as planned so now I am a very busy mommy but it's great. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120284 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:31:34 +0000 Mrs. Pen 120284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: it's just crazy.. I couldn't imagine being pregnant right now and having a two month old to care for! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120220 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:17:05 +0000 Minnie_Girl 120220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd like to have all my kids close together, and be done with pregnancies before I hit my 30s. Maybe twoish years between three or four. I already work from home, I just need to advance in my career so DH and I can support all our dreams! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120189 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:11:11 +0000 winniebee 120189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@miss-spunkin: It's nice to have dreams of perfect pregnancies right? I actually really liked being pregnant until my scare and getting sequestered to the couch. Oh, I plan on some sort of prevention for at least a year post birth....I had a friend who had Irish Twins even though she was BF'ing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120181 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:10:01 +0000 heffalump 120181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We want to wait until LO is at least two. I really wanted to lose more weight.... but if I don't it's not going to stop us from TTC. I'm ready now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120065 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:49:25 +0000 Mrs. Pen 120065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: you are actually most fertile right after you have a baby - so keep that in mind if you're NTNP.<br /> I thought the same thing, that I would have lovely, easy pregnancies because my mom raved about how much she loved being pregnant and I hated it lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120041 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:45:16 +0000 Rubies 120041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2-3 years apart. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120033 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:44:09 +0000 winniebee 120033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@miss-spunkin: I was so confident after having a super easy pregnancy until recently - I thought I would just pop 'em out! And, since it took us 8 months for this baby, I thought we'd start trying when baby turned 1. Now, thinking that timeline will be delayed by at least 6 months, maybe a year. I'm going to be almost 32 when this one is born, so we can't wait tooooo long.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120014 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:41:19 +0000 mrsjyw 120014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>18 - 24 months apart between three, ideally. I'd like to work at least a year in between each pregnancy, and I also want them to be close in age like my lil bro and i </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-120005 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:40:06 +0000 regberadaisy 120005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We haven't made an official decision. But I would ideally like our kids to be 18-24 months apart. My husband's siblings are about 2 years apart and they are all SUPER close.<br /> I want to wait till at least #1 is one year before TTC. I want to be able to completely devote that first year to her before thinking about other kids! </p> <p>I know it'll be harder on us when they are younger. But I think the proximity in their age will help foster a closeness that will be worth it to me.</p> <p>But we'll see where life takes us! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119837 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:01:45 +0000 prettylizy 119837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought about 2 years apart, but now I'm not so sure! Lol! This is harder than it looks. I think we'll take it one day at a time </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119807 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:51:32 +0000 kml636 119807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Originally, I wanted them to be 3 years apart. But now I'm leaning towards closer because we may have 3 kids and DH is going to be 36 soon... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119765 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:36:41 +0000 chopsuey 119765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd like our kids 2-3 years apart! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119751 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:33:28 +0000 lilteacherbee 119751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now, we want 3, each about 2-3 years apart. We want to start trying again once the first is 15-18 months. One huge thing to consider is childcare. Thankfully, I work at a daycare as a preschool teacher, so I get a major discount. </p> <p>We're TTC #1 now, so obviously nothing is set in stone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119653 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:38:44 +0000 Mrs. Pen 119653@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: yeah, that was a contender with me. having so many issues with pregnancy, I need my first to be old enough to be somewhat independent and somewhat understand what's going on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119650 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:34:32 +0000 winniebee 119650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We originally wanted 3 kids all about 2 years apart. However, now that I've had to be on bedrest for what will be 6 weeks in this pregnancy, I'm not sure when we will have #2. Maybe start trying 1.5 years after #1 is born. So much to consider! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119647 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:25:53 +0000 HabesBabe 119647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If it were up to me, I would want them one right after another (just 2 total)-- all of my mommy friends laugh at me because I don't have any yet (just 28 weeks pg w/ 1st LO), so they all think I won't go through with it.</p> <p>IMO, it's better to get it all over with ASAP instead of having to go through the newborn-diapers phase w/ LO #1 and then starting all over again when LO #2 comes along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119644 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:22:52 +0000 eeh 119644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like you, we want to wait until our first is out of diapers. If that happens way sooner than anticipated I'll welcome the diaper relief but that doesn't mean we'll start trying right then and there. My husband has 5 years between him and his sister and likes that gap and I have 2.5 years between mine and like that so we'll probably go somewhere in that range. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/child-spacing#post-119636 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:10:12 +0000 Mrs. Pen 119636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What are your plans for child spacing?</p> <p>We are still up in the air about it, we're not sure what we want. We know for sure we want to wait until our first is out of diapers, so 2.5-3 years at least.</p> <p>But there is one other issue in our future. We REALLY want to buy our own home, but we're being practical about it - we know we can't afford it now and since I'm a SAHM all of my husband's income goes to bills, food, rent, etc so we can't even save much. I'm going back to school to finish my BA/BS, then I want to get a FT job and put nearly all of my income into saving for a house.<br /> But I don't want to have another baby if I just started a new job, and daycare for two kids might make me working obsolete, and I really like the idea of spending the first couple years with my LO's...</p> <p>So we're not sure.. we're just gonna see how things go. </p>