Two Under Two At Fortyish???

[paradise lost]

I think whatever age you are you just deal with it all, kwim? My mum had her first 3 in 3 years when she was 18/19/20 and #1 was a late walker - still wasn't walking when #3 was born! She was already PG at her 6weeks post partum check twice.

My closest sibling (#5) and i (#6) were born 3 years and 5 months apart but she lost a little boy at 22wks and another PG at 8weeks in between us, so she could well have had 2 under 2 if one of those had worked out. She was 43 when i was born. When i was a baby she was a childminder. She looked after 2 other little girls 10 and 20 months younger than me, 8am-6pm 5 days a week, so that was 3 under 3 (when she was 46/7) i guess, but not at night.

She actually told me that she felt it was easier later in life, as she said she had a lot of energy for the first 3 but not the knowledge or the patience she had when she was older. It depends on the person i guess but if you want another kid and your hubby is keen too then i'd just go for it - life's too short for regrets and while i know a lot of people who worry about having i bigger family, i don't know anyone who regrets a specific child, kwim? Like DD came at a difficult time, her father and i aren't together and my life is NOT what i imagined, but she is beautiful and smart and funny and the light of my life and i never regret her even for a second. Yes, the timing could have been better, but my child couldn't be, she is brilliant

Bx