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Originally posted by baltassoc
...but she insisted on having baltspawn 2 about four minutes after baltspawn 1.
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That is too damn funny. Wow. She must not have had a problem with lack of sleep after Number One. Or, in the alternative, she was walking around in such an exhausted state she wasn't thinking clearly.
As to spacing of ages, here's my input from the Vietfamily:
My mom says having Sis and Me only 13 months apart was a nightmare at first but when I was about 1, Sis and I started playing together and she found life as a Mom got really really easy. She basically plopped us in the living room and we played and never bothered her. I remember she even took up pastel painting and Mah Jong (remember that?) Caveat: for some strange reason, we never bickered -- not as toddlers or teens or whatever. To the extent the close-in-age kids bicker, this would clearly be a problem.
My sister recommends having the second kid when the older one is 3. Because the older kid can help do stuff like bring diapers to Mom and pick up after herself, is hopefully potty-trained, and there is less fighting than if the older one is 2.
Me: I think the age spread between children should be 40 years. Seriously, if Vietbabe begs for a sibling....I am not going to do the infant thing anymore so will only adopt a 3-8 year old. Because the current sociological thinking is against "adopting out of birth order" (i.e., you only adopt a child younger than your existing kid) that would mean I'd have to wait for Vietbabe to be at least 4-9 years old. Though I'm tempted these days to adopt a 16 year old who really likes taking care of babies. (:
