Family Planning: The Best Age Gap and Optimal Number of Kids!

After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Dear Media and Big Little Feelings

Big Little Feelings, After Bedtime, Deena Margolin, After Bedtime With Big Little Feelings, Kids & Family, Parenting, 105161, Kristin Gallant

4.7 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On today’s episode we dive into something that SO many of us agonize over once we become parents. We’re talking about optimal age gaps, how many kids is the “right” amount of kids to have, and everyyyything that goes into making those decisions. On this episode we cover: How many kids is the ideal number of kids to have? The ideal age gap: What the *actual research* says in terms of child developmental outcomes AND parental happiness How to deal when fertility struggles impacts your age gap/number of kids plans Two under two: Setting your kids up to be lifelong best friends or a recipe for TOTAL CHAOS? BUSTING the myths about only children Concrete questions to ask yourself to to figure out what is best for YOUR family The transcript of the episode can be found here! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back Big Little Bestee to After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings.
0:09.0	Today's episode is near and dear to my anxiety driven heart. We are talking about age gap, how many kids
0:18.0	should we have, basically all the things that my fellow anxiety moms worry about all the time we have the data for
0:26.2	you. How many kids is the right amount of kids? What is the ideal age gap?'re doing it let's go
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0:53.0	This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.
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0:58.9	and get on your way to being your best self.
1:01.4	One of the relationships I am the most proud of in my life,
1:04.7	probably no surprise to you, is my marriage.
1:08.2	Now, a lot of people think that marriage is just easy
1:11.4	or a relationship is supposed to be easy and that means it's right, but actually
1:17.4	relationships take a lot of work and honestly the best relationships happen when both people put in the work to make themselves good and make the relationship whole.
1:31.0	Therapy can be a place to work through the challenges you face in all of your
1:34.3	relationships whether it's with friends work your significant other or anyone we
1:39.1	share all the time on this show about how we are in our own therapy. We also go to couples therapy, both
1:44.7	Dina and I, every single week. For me, whether it's individual therapy or even couples
1:50.7	therapy, I'm not waiting until things get really, really bad
1:55.2	and then jumping into therapy.
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