Age gaps run in my family.
My father is 15 years younger than his oldest brother.
There were seven years between my parents.
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We are emotionally close but have never had a physical fight, never had the same friends.
Strangers never even guess that were related.
By the time my baby is born, my son will be well into Year Two at school.
Ive had a baby before, remember.
God knows how other parents have kept everything so clean.
But his is not just a simple cooing excitement over holding them or making them giggle.
He wants to know the facts.
He loves hearing about the amniotic fluid, the placenta, the colostrum and the fontanelle.
He asks about their eyelids and lungs and the development of their hearing.
