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Originally posted by besttwins
5. My two children are so close in age, they're practically twins.
But, they are not. They won't start school together, share a birthday,or face years of being lumped together as one unit, forever referred to as "the twins".
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I would never say this to someone who actually has twins, but I have said it to mothers of kids who are spaced farther apart. FTR, my boys are 14 months apart.
My boys do everything together; eat, sleep, bathe, play. They share all the same toys. They go everywhere together. The oldest has no memory of life before you youngest came along. We're homeschooling and the are both going to start Kindergarten together. And they are lumped together as one unit, "the boys." At the park it's hard to get them to play with other children because their bond is so strong that they only want to play with each other.
In some ways having closely spaced siblings is more of a challenge than having twins in the beginning, because you have one mobile baby/toddler while you have a newborn. Baby A is getting into everything while you're trying to feed/diaper/rock Baby B. You have two in diapers, two nursing or needing bottles, two that wake in the middle of the night.
Of course, once they are both toddlers, twins are much harder to keep track of! My aunt has twins that are 2 months younger than my oldest, and while I definitely had it harder when my youngest was a newborn, she had it harder once both boys were walking, because once my youngest was walking my oldest was 2YO and no longer getting into everything.
I just thought I'd try to explain why moms of closely spaced siblings say that. We know they aren't twins, but we share a lot of the same joys and frustrations.
Peace,
Kimberly