I am 36 weeks pregnant with a 20-month-old.

I keep thinking about how much harder everything is about to be since a toddler still needs so much attention. My original plan was to wait 5 years or more so the eldest wouldn’t be hanging off me so much while dealing with a baby but it happened sooner than I’d expected.

I am 3.5 years older than my sister and my mom says she feels that was too big a gap and it would have been easier to get it over with faster. I have two aunts whose kids are 5-6 years apart and they also said they wished they would have had theirs closer together for the same reason.

I also have one other aunt whose kids were born a year apart, but she hasn’t said anything much about it at all.

Any experiences to share? My daughter is entering her terrible twos and every day can be irritating. Sometimes I just don’t want to go out and do anything because she’s such a hassle. Now that I’m about to have another any day my anxiety about it has gotten worse.