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Child spacing: then and now

  1. illumina

    pomelo / 5469 posts

    If everything goes well with S and I feel I can cope with another, we will TTC for two under two. I am a SAHM so I wonder if that has anything to do with it? A lot of my SAHM friends (and even some that WOH) have two under two. I guess people my age and older may have left have kids til later on life, so to speak and maybe feel the need to get on with it. I know I do.

  2. cascademom

    coconut / 8861 posts

    @PurplePeony: my DH and his brother are two completely different people, barely seem like brothers. My fertility would be a problem if we waited that long too.

  3. Mrs. Pen

    blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts

    My area is heavily concentrated with SAHM's, so most have young kids within 2-3 years of each other. I get asked alllll the time when I'm having another one and J is only 18 months!

    I don't think it's generational here. My mom Had three under two when she was my age. Most of her friends seemed to have kids in their early twenties as well.

  4. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    Most of my peers with siblings are 2-3 years apart unless the surprise baby of the family showed up several years later. I don't have that many peers with children, but there's only one couple I can think of that still had a child in diapers when their second was born.

    If we try for two we will start right away because of my age and I ak hoping to foster playmates.

  5. Bookish

    GOLD / cantaloupe / 6581 posts

    @Mrs. Pen: yep, this. My area is mostly stay at home moms, and all the families on my street have kids very close in age. There are two pregnant moms right now with kids under 1. I've definitely been getting pressure already for #2, and she's only 3mos!

    All the parents I knew growing up had kids 2-3 years apart. I think 3 was the most common. My parents had us 5.5 years apart, but that was due to fertility problems.

  6. yellowbird

    honeydew / 7303 posts

    My brother an I are 2.5 years apart. My parents had to pay very little for daycare when we were younger so it wasnt a burden.

    Our (my dh and i) child spacing has to do with cost of daycare, insurance for more than one, and just logistics of caring for more than one kiddo with two working parents.

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