when to try for number 2?

Just curious, how old was your first bubba when you started trying for number 2?

We've got a spring baby and as we live in a cold climate, I'm keen on another spring baby, thinking of TTC Dec/Jan/Feb/Mar

This would mean approx 2 year age gap....

First bub was 17months when we started trying for number 2. Got pregnant when she was 18months (a lot quicker than expected - it took a lot longer the first time!!)

Good luck!

ETA DD is a late summer baby (was due early autumn though) and this one will be a late autumn bub. Am looking forward to snuggling up with my babies over winter hehe

Edited by rachelsea

We wanted around a 2 year age gap but bubba had different ideas We will have 18 months between the two, but think it will actually be perfect First was a winter bub, this will be a beginning of summer bub

I would have loved to have started ttc#2 months ago but a few things put it on hold. We have been ttc now for a month, due for AF next week but if pg first cycle (which im not expecting), there would be a 20 month gap

Thanks Lullaby Baby, where are you in NZ? Im in Invercargill and its definately cold down here at the moment.

We started ttc number 3 (my oldest is 8) when number 2 was 9months (I think) I was pregnant when he was 11months.
Its hard work,now in hindsight I would have preferred a 2 year gap,but its not all bad,just tricky cos Ty is still a baby himself in a lot of ways
My first 2 are winter babies,my youngest is a summer babe, out of the 2 I definitely prefer being pregnant in winter

WE had to try for quite a while to get number one - I totally don't care about time of year, and although I agree, two years sounds nice, if we were to get pregnant tomorrow I'd be overjoyed. I think you can make anything work.

As far as having birthday's together, Jacob was born the day before mine, so if a second Bubs was born round then we'd just have a birthday season

I decided to start trying as soon as AF returned which was when DS was 3 months old. As it took a wee while to get pregnant the first time I just wanted to get on with it in case it takes a while again - nothing has happened yet... maybe next month. My 'ideal' age gap would have been 18 months.

We had a 21 month gap between ours and it sure was hard. DS2 was a total screamer and really only wanted to sleep on me for the first few months. In some ways it worked out ok as DS1 is the easiest boy ever and never got jealous etc but maybe if J had come later he might have. I put a lot of effort into continuing his activities like playgroup etc so he didn't feel his life had come to a crashing halt.

We thought we wanted 3 kids hence the short age gap but after J and the screamfest i have totally changed my mind. Knowing what i know now i wish i had waited another year so that DS1 would have been closer to going to kindy. It would have meant that i had longer with just him and i and also more quality time with DS2 (it is so hard to get 1:1 time with each). I got so stressed with the whole screaming baby thing that i was not the greatest mum for a while there and i feel a bit sad that poor DS1 had to experience that. If he had been off to kindy he would have had something of his own and i could have had some time out.

We started trying when DS was 6 months, I had heard so much that second babies can take a bit longer when TTC but we were very fortunate and got UTD right away so we will have a 16 month age gap.

For some reason I didn't think of the seasons.. just the month and all I knew was that I didn't want another Jan baby so DS wouldn't have to share his birthday month I loved having a summer baby (was GREAT for doing washing) but my favourite season is winter so I'm looking forward to lots of cuddles and snuggles with our two kids!