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The Art and Science of Child Spacing
How Far Apart Should Siblings Be?
Julia, a 33-year-old mother of four, also chose to space her children close together. "It is incredibly rewarding," she says. "My two oldest are 20 months apart and the two youngest are 15 months apart. The oldest was 6 when the last one was born. We deliberately had two and two so they would grow up with a sibling very close in age." But, she cautions, "Having children close together is very difficult. The first years are the hardest, in my opinion."
This is the typical complaint of parents who have children very close in age – getting past the hard part is, well, hard. But some parents find it easiest to go through the nighttime waking and endless diaper changes all at once. Margaret, age 40, concurs. She says she chose to have children close together "because I wanted them to be able to enjoy each other throughout their lives, to share experiences, toys, clothes and fun – but also, because we wanted to 'get over' the special challenges of the baby/toddler years as quickly as practical."
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