Do you regret having a second baby with a large age gap?
Context. I am 35 and have a 5 year old son. We can afford and have space for more children. We’d like more. However we are out of the baby phase. Out of nappies and our son is in school. We have a lot of freedom with our only.
Having a second wouldn’t deprive our first of anything and would hopefully enrich his life as he’s always asking for a sibling.
I had a hard time PP but having done it once I think and hope I’d do better this time around. Helps there isn’t a global pandemic happening. We found out we were pregnant a month before lockdown. It was hard.
I am worried other families get to the independent stage, out of the young little kid stage and go back by having another and regret it. I don’t wanna regret it but I don’t feel our family is complete yet.
We’ve been considering another for a few years on and off and my friend just had a baby 12 weeks ago and holding her baby magnified my feelings that we’re not done. but her two are three years apart not 5. She’s also two years younger than me. If you went for it this year our son would be 6.5 ish when baby 2 was born.