I voted for less then 2 years apart. My two brothers and I are 5 years apart exactly. I completely despised the older brother while I completely loved my youngest brother. With the older one, we constantly fighted because he was the baby and I was supposed to be this protector of him when I didn't want to be. I was only 5 years old and felt very jealous of him. Then my youngest brother came along, I was there for his birth and always had an attatchment to him, I think because I was older I understood better the sister role. But I always thought it was cool when siblings were in school together. Whenever I was in high school or junior high, I had wished I had a sister or my brothers there to keep me company when I had my bad times.
As for us though, we're currently not trying but not preventing either so its entirely possible for us to have another very, very close in age. I'd definitely welcome another pregnancy as it took over 14 months in order to get pregnant with my daughter and that was with fertility drugs. I don't think I'd want them 10 months apart exactly or anything but I think having them over a year apart is a nice gap. I want them to have that close bond and sibling relationship. Cause I know that even with a mere 5 year age gap, when my brothers were born and were 5 years apart, they never understood what I was going through at the time. They were too young nor were they interested, which caused me to get really distant from them sometimes.
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