Age gaps

It feels like forever ago since having a baby crawling around the house. I'd forgotten how much hard work it can be. Suddenly you have to start putting everything out of reach and even then they still find more to play with that they shouldn't be. Simple things that you don't even think about moving. One of reggies favourite forbidden things to play with is the nappy crate. It's not that he could cause himself any serious harm playing with it all, but ripping nappies apart isn't something I'd like to encourage him to do.

Ethan is 5 years old, Georgina is 4. The age gap between them was so small that Georgina followed milestones fairly quickly after Ethan. This meant I didn't have to do much baby proofing for Georgina and remembered everything so clearly from only doing it a few months previously. This time round it all feels so new. Although I'm more confident as a mum in most areas, I still worry about things like, am I feeding reggie too much or too little. I don't remember ever worrying this much with Ethan and certainly not Georgina. I often wish the age gap between the younger two was much smaller, but in saying that it's still not a huge gap compared to many children in other families.

It makes me ask the question to myself; what is the perfect age gap?
It's one of those questions that many parents ask themselves, and yet there is no right or wrong answer. It's all personal preference, and there is no guarantee in planning a certain gap. I always knew I'd like four children fairly close together. That will never happen now as we certainly won't be having a fourth. I feel there is a fair old age difference, yet many would disagree and say three being 5 and under is close in age. Now Reggie is on the move they all play nicely together and Reggie loves looking to his older siblings to watch and learn how they do things. He laughs at them more then he does to anybody else. It's lovely to watch and I wish I could freeze them all to this age and never let them grow up!!!

At the end of the day I think the most important thing isn't how many children you have or what the age difference is, it's purely being a happy healthy family that's important!!