When you can your second baby?

2-3 year gap is the best.Too much gap reduces attachment between siblings.Too less gap can cause difficulty in handling them.

Our daughter is now 20 months and we are 12 weeks preg. with #2. She will be 27 mths when the new baby comes. I think we spaced them apart a good bit. My cousin and his wife had kids back to back. A few months after she would have one she would get pregnant again, until they had a little girl. I think that is too much.

I have four children, and my second was born four years after her sister, with the third three years after that. However, I really don't see a problem with having them closer together. It might be nice, in fact - if they are closer in age they might play together more.

Well I have two girls and they are 16 months apart. Somedays I find this very frustrating because my eldest is only just learning toilet training and to talk and my youngest is just starting to crawl. I had to have cesareans with them however I have found it good because they play together where before my eldest was bored with me and at that young age children play next to each other she now find it great to play next to her little sister and show her things. I also found that your body wont let itself get pregnant until it is capable of supporting another baby in the womb. But if your thought process is anything like mine close together means close bonds get it all over and done with around the same time. WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN BABY MODE.......

Umm...I must say thay "your body won't let itself get pregnant until it is capable of supporting another baby in the womb" is a myth! Your body is capable of pregnancy as soon as you ovulate and for some women, that is within a month of having your baby! My own cousins are 10 months apart. I know a few women who conceived again 6 weeks after giving birth! Doctors recommend waiting at least two (2) years between conceptions. Your body needs to heal and revert back to non-pregnant state before it is recommended having another baby. Otherwise, your subsequent pregnancy is high risk simply because of the short time between pregnancies.

About 2 years between mine, but thats only cos she wanted to wait so she could have a break from being pregnant, then when we tried it took awhile to concieve. But if you wanna have a child straight away, apparently its ok too. The reason why a woman has to wait for awhile, is to let the body get back to where it should be, muscles need to rest and basically, the body goes through an enormous amount of stress and does need to recover. I think its up to the individual as to how healthy they are and how the body has coped with giving birth.

There are 5 years between mine.

What doctors reccommend that? My doctor recommended waiting at least 1 year before getting pregnant again. I guess all doctors are different. Anyway. We had our second child 15 months after our first and our third was born 13 months after the second one. Our oldest was only 2 years and 4 months old. I love having them close together. It is a lot of work some days but they are all good friends and I can tell them to go off and play with each other and they are fine. We just had our 4th baby this past April. She is 3 1/2 years younger then our 3rd child. I found this gap much harder to adapt too. It was much easier to just go from one baby to another baby. Having to go from an older toddler (who was almost potty trained and very independent) to another clingy, needy baby was very difficult.

I thought the recommendation from doctors was one year, not three. I think there are advantages to all ways of spacing your children. Mine are 3 years apart, and it was nice because we didn't have much sibling rivalry, but sometimes we envy familes where the children are closer in age, because the children can enjoy the same activities at the same time.

the doc say 3 yrs????? OMG! I want my kids 2 yrs appart my son is now 10 months so were trying for nbaby #2 now, I think its as soon as your finacially and mentally ready, and basically I'm up for the challange

i hope first child could help the mother take care the second baby

I have 3 children, 5 years apart between each child. I enjoyed the age differences because each child was the only baby, the only toddler. My children love one another dearly.

I think it's whatever works best for you and your family! (or in my case, when you get pregnant, LOL) Mine are a year and a week apart. We did not plan it that way, but I wouldn't change a thing!

I would say 2 to three. My brother's wife is having their second, and it will be almost exactly 2 years. Personally, I couldn't imagine being pregnant with my daughter now at 15 months. She's exhausting enough as it is! We want to wait till closer to three years, probably a little closer to 2 1/2. Honestly, for us the decision is being largely based on income. We know my husband (military) will be getting a substantial raise when he is promoted in 2008, so that's our aim. If it were to happen though, we would of course be excited!