Anyone have babies back to back on purpose?

My husband and I lost our son 2 days after birth Last April, we decided to start ttc for baby #2 this past January. We have also been talking about how many kids we want and we both agree we want a big family. I'm 28 and he is 35 and we both dont want to be having kids older than 35-36 (for me), which means we will have to have our kids close together, which we are both ok with. I guess my question is, did anyone else do this too? How did you handle it? Did you wish you did it differently?