I've been watching your blog, because I have a little one just a few months older than Jack (I think) and I'm having a new one a few months after you (I think), so it's sort of like getting to watch somebody else go through it first. :) Ours will be 22 months apart. I know that it probably will be hard, at least at first, but just think how well the children will play together in a few years! And a lot of people have mentioned the obvious... you're not going into this blind this time, you know what worked with your first one, you're not doing things for the first time. Sure, every kid will be different, but I think the experience of the first one will make the second one different. And you *can* give two kids baths in about the time it takes to give one a bath. And feed two (once the new baby is eating solids) at the same time, and read to the older while you nurse the younger, etc. It's not *double* the work in quite the way people think. I've heard that the third is the hardest, 'cuz that's when you have more kids than hands!