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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found my 2 year 3 month age difference extremely challenging for almost the whole first year.  Things got better at 9 months when I got very serious about cry it out.  I had colicky babies, though.  The crying was deafening.  That said--  I'm pretty happy with the age difference now.  I would NEVER put myself through that again on purpose, but having a 3 year old and a five year old is quite nice.  By the way, I work full time, but I did have a decent amount of help 40 hr a week nanny and a helpful husband.  My two year old decided to wake up every time she heard the baby cry.  She became scared of going to bed and would wake up and yell for us when the baby woke her up.  We were zombies for a long time.  The stereo crying was pretty awful... and unexpected!  My two year old was actually very verbal, but she regressed and begged us to feed her and hold her in our laps all the time.  I did somehow manage to toilet train her during all this madness (before returning to work).[/quote]

I have this exact same age gap.  The first 7 months were super hard.  Then it got great for awhile.  Now they are 1.5 and 3.5 and it's NUTS again.  Really hard.  The younger one used to be pretty easy going and now that's not the case.   I really do think it'll be easier when they are 3 and 5.  But good god there is a LOT of crying in my house right now.

I adore them.  They are wonderful.  But I tell everyone that if they can control it, aim for at least 3 years apart!  2 years is still pretty crazy.[/quote]

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