Age gaps between your children that make younger ones, young Aunts and Uncles.

One of my great grandchildren is exactly the same age as one of my grandchildren . Both 2.

Out of 10 children of my mother's uncles, 8 of them are younger than me, from the age difference of a few months to about 18 years!!!https://www.gransnet.com/emo/te/5.gif

Out of 10 children of my mother's uncles, 8 of them are younger than me, from the age difference of a few months to about 18 years!!!

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Out of 10 children of my mother's uncles, 8 of them are younger than me, from the age difference of a few months to about 18 years !!!

A long time ago but my late DH was an uncle at six weeks and again at 6 years old. His half sister was 23 when he was born so he grew up with her 2 sons. He also became an uncle again to a niece at 10 years old. The daughter of his other half sister.

My DD by my first marriage and our DS were 17 & 11 when we started fostering, in the 22 years since then 3 of the many visiting Children have stayed permanently within our family, 2 DS with us now aged 29 &14 and our wonderful GD age 15 having been adopted by our DD. So our fostered DS3 is now uncle to our GD who was his sister for the first 4 years and is a year older than him. Confused? DS3 was, when asked where babies came from he said 'social workers bring them'. You don't need to be blood related to be a family!

My youngest GS (5 months) is Uncle to my GGS (4 months)

My son, 36 has cousins the same age as his children, 10 and 12. Uncle married late.

There are many families on my family tree with a dozen children spread over twenty five years. The eldest ones were having children at the same time as their parents were having their younger ones
I chose to have my four in seven years, I don't like big gaps.

I have a brother 18 years older than me and a sister 15 years older. My mum was 44 when I was born and I was 42 when my second son was born 16 years after his brother. History repeating itself my mum said.!!

I feel totally confused reading these explanations of family relationships!

My mother was born about halfway through a family of 12 siblings. Her next younger sister had a baby 'out of wedlock' about a year after I was born and apparently my parents looked after him for a while, although I have no memory of this. He was returned to the family home aged about 3 and brought up as the youngest of the family, calling our grandparents 'Mam and Dad'. I was led to believe he was an uncle, not a cousin, for many years after ]

There is just 8 yrs between mine, but I had no choice and the second one I didn't know was on the way until I was coming up to five months. I will admit the oldest was great looking when looking after the younger one

I have an aunt who is slightly younger than myself, I was born in January and she was born in March of same year. My mum was the eldest and aunt was the youngest of the family. We spent a lot of time together as children so were fairly close. It used to cause some puzzled looks when we told people she was my auntie.
My eldest son is 12 years older than my second son, so when eldest Granddaughter was born my youngest became an uncle when aged 6.

My DD has an uncle who is 9 years younger than her! She was born in 1983. That same year my exH's father remarried a woman quite a few years younger than himself. In late 1991,his wife discovered she was pregnant,at the age of 44. She had a son in June 1992. My DD daughter was rather confused by her baby uncle!

My DH is the third of six children. The eldest is 14 years older than the youngest and two of her grandchildren are older than her youngest brother's children. MIL is still alive and now has more great grandchildren than grandchildren. Unsurprisingly she sometimes gets confused about who we are talking about ?

My father had been married before and divorced. He had a daughter born in 1934. After he married my Mum in 1946 he had three more children, my older sister was born in 1952 and our half sister got married in 1954. She had her first child, a daughter, in the Summer of 1955 just before I was born in the August of 1955 - so my sister was an Auntie aged just two years, our half sister went on to have two more children after I was born so I too became an Auntie at a very young age. I have a similar thing on my late husband's family side - he was an unexpected late baby born in 1952 and my sisters in law were born in 1941 and 1943, his first nephew was born in 1962, when he was ten years old. His youngest nephew was born in 1967. I have always felt much more like their older sister (I was 7 in 1962 and 12 in 1967), especially once they got married and I soon became a gt-aunt. I became a Gt gt Aunt at 59 when my eldest gt niece had her first baby. My daughter is more in the age group of my gt nieces rather than her own older cousins!

There was 21 years between my DH's eldest and youngest sisters so my youngest DSiL became an auntie at 2. They were definitely more like sister and brother.

My Dad came from a big family - he was the youngest but one of thirteen. His elder sisters were married young and producing their own families before my Dad was born - hence he had several nieces and nephews older than him, and a nephew of the same age and name who was in the same regiment in WW2 - very confusing!

My first niece was born when I was 5. Another niece, 10 years younger than me, once asked my sister who I was, as she couldn't see how I fitted into the family! I was the youngest of 5, the others being 16,14,13 and 8 when I was born.

Mick Jagger's dynasty is quite confusing, he's going to be a father again soon and that child will presumably be a great uncle/aunt to his great grandchild, I think

My sisters were adults and married when I was born late to my mother. I am just five years older than my eldest nephew and eight years older than my eldest niece. I am glad to say that neither of them have ever called me "auntie"!

I am the eldest of five kids. My youngest sister was born when my eldest daughter was four months old. They were very close when young, but have not seen each other for years now.