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For some people planning subsequent pregnancies is easy – they want to have siblings spaced a certain way or want to get the early childhood years over all at once. But others worry: Can we love two babies? Will caring for more than one overwhelm us?
The truth is that there is no perfect time to have another child – just like there was no perfect time to have your first. You can't guarantee siblings will be best friends or worst enemies just by virtue of their birthdays, or that you'll be more prepared next year than this one. So how do you decide?
"The ideal spacing between babies is the amount of time that you and your partner are comfortable with," says Gail J. Dahl, author of...
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9 hours ago
Spacing doesn't matter much
My sister and I were three years apart and we fought horribly. When I had my own kids, I chose to have them less than a year and a half apart. And...they fight horribly! My youngest came four years after the second one, and she gets... read moreNot Acceptable?