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[quote=Anonymous]Mine are 5.5 years apart. My oldest really wanted a sibling and was super excited. But my kids are grown now and I can't remember how we told my oldest he was going to have a sibling. We chose not to find out the sex of DC2, and DS1 really wanted a sister. But when we told him he had a brother (I called him from the hospital; it was the first call we made), he did not seem to remember he had wanted a sister and was just super excited. He never mentioned a sister again.

The adjustment was a little hard--DS1 was a little jealous that the baby took so much of my time. But once the newborn period was over, we never had any other issues between them, other than having to closely monitor any roughhousing because DS1 was so much bigger. As they got older we did occasionally have to remind DS1 that he was not DS2's parent, lol. They are 25 and 20 now and get along well.

I LOVED this age gap FWIW. I really liked that each of them got tons of attention in their baby/toddler years, and then it was nice to have them always at different stages---a rational 7 year old to talk to when the 2- year-old was in the tantrumming stage, a still cuddly 9- year-old when the teenager was driving us mad. Also so great to put distance between the two college searches. And of course expense-wise we only had one at a time in daycare and then in college. Some people say that it's hard to do things as a family with this kind of age gap, but we didn't find to be too much of a problem.[/quote]

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