Second Child?

I guess when the age gap is smaller, there will be a lot of sibling rivary when they are growing up.. however they will also grow closer cos of that.. when the age gap is too big, it is also difficult for parents to start the momentum of bringing up a child from scratch all over again.. but sometimes it also depends on how stable the family is.. like i have a friend who prefers to wait for a while before she has a second one cos she feels that she wants to be able to give the same kind of treatment she has been giving to her first child instead of stretching her finances over two children =)

I think two or three years is good, that's what I wanted at least two years between my kids but it didn't happen, they and seventeen months apart, they get along so well, I'm glad they are close in age. My brother and I are eighteen months apart, we also have a close relationship.

mine was 3 years apart, well she just turned 3 when i we had our second and my 3rd was had just turned 5 when we had our last child

I think that it depends on the family and what their circumstances are. Some people decide that they want so much time between the birth of each child, but then nature has different ideas. We had thought that 18 months-2 years was ideal but then it took us 5 years before we had our firstborn, a son. Following that we had many years of heartbreak before we decided we were blessed with the one child and to give him the best that we could as it became obvious he would be an only child. No sadness about it, because that is just the way things were meant to be. :)

There were two years between myself and my sister. I'm older. When we were young, she seemed far too young. As adults, it doesn't matter. My two daughters are 15 months apart. They were not close as children. And as adults, they love and respect each other and see each other fairly often. But I would not say that they are close. I don't know whether it's the years that make the difference.

gap between two children shld be atleast abt 3 yrs thts the minimum i would say..

3 to 5 years is a good gap i think

3 YR

I think two years is probably a good distance. It seems to be the average of people I meet. My brother is 2 years younger then me and we still had a lot of the same friends and are still close. My oldest 3 children are each a year apart. They are 6, 5 and about to turn 4 now. It was hard when they were babies but I love it. My youngest is now 6 months old and is 3 1/2 years younger then her sister and I feel that is too much. They just aren't going to have a lot in common growing up. But in the end I think it all depends on the family. For one family a 5 year gap is perfect and for another they can't imagine more then an 18 month gap (mine are 15 months apart and 13 months apart, leaving #1 and #3 just a little over 2 years apart).