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11	[[caption-width-right:250:There's also the family pets, but who's counting?]]
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13	Or a Boy, a Girl, and Baby siblings (sometimes called "2.5 kids"). Not only are families with three kids common in TV land, but often they are made with a boy, a girl and a baby of either sex (nearly 50/50 ratio).
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15	That kind of family usually has certain features:
16	* The two elder siblings are close in age: twins, between one and three years, occasionally four or five years.
17	* The eldest sibling can be either sex, but is usually a girl. The larger the age gap, the more likely the oldest is a girl (possibly making her a BrattyTeenageDaughter, and the boy an AnnoyingYoungerSibling).
18	* The boy and girl have ages between 6 and 17 years: neither too young as children nor too old as teens.
19	* The baby is usually a toddler between six months and two years old, between four and 17 years younger than the older siblings, and can be either sex..
20	* Just because one can't walk or talk yet does not mean that the baby sibling is always [[TheLoad good for nothing]] or powerless. On the contrary, the infant is often shown to be the most powerful in the family (if applicable), a BrainyBaby, an EnfantTerrible, or a LittleMissBadass. Even when they are only the PluckyComicRelief for most of the story, the baby can save the day at the very end as the [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]].
21	* The baby is '''never''' the child of one of the older siblings.
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23	The reason? Brother and Sister have the target audience's age and allow everyone in the audience to identify with the sibling of the same gender. The baby could also be a substitute for a child while the siblings are "parents". It also allows the writers to have starring characters for AlwaysMale and AlwaysFemale plots or tropes, and the baby as a child substitute, a third man or younger sibling role. The sex of the baby varies as gender doesn't make as much of a difference for infant characters. Alternatively, the baby can take the role of a TeamPet.
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25	See also SiblingTeam and ResentfulOutnumberedSibling. Subtrope of NuclearFamily. The kids are likely a type of MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio, since the baby has no obvious secondary sex characteristics. Can sometimes be an example of PracticallyDifferentGenerations.
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32	[[folder:Advertising]]
33	* The Advertising/SilentnightBeds hippo and duck family has Dee-Dee, Hugo, and Henry.
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36	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
37	* Ken and Miyako's children, at the end of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', which consist of an older sister, a younger brother and a baby.
38	* In the manga ''Kocchi Muite Miiko'', the Yamada family has Miiko, Mamoru, and their baby sister Momo.
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41	[[folder:Comic Books]]
42	* The ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'': Sunny's parents have three kids in her NuclearFamily: her, her older brother Dale, and her younger brother Teddy. Dale isn't present though as he's separated from the family for some time due to his [[DrugsAreBad substance abuse]]; his absence and issues weighs emotionally on Sunny.
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45	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
46	* Katy, Clayton and Nick from ComicStrip/AdamAtHome.
47	* Zoe, Hammie and Wren from ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'', eventually.
48	* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', back when April was still a baby.
49	* The family from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' would have followed this back when Jason was a baby (more or less -- Paige would have only been four or five), although we never get to see that time except in the rare FlashBack.
50	* For a short time after Rerun was born, there's Lucy, Linus, and Rerun van Pelt in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
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53	[[folder:Fan Works]]
54	* ''Fanfic/AfterTheJungleSeries'': The Shortmans are this--a lot of the future-set stories take place about 25-years after the events of the original series, and at this point: Andy's a 9-year-old 4th-grader, Megan's a 5-year-old Kindergartener and Henry's a year old (and obviously too young to be in school). Andy and Megan are also both students are P.S. 118 (and are former students at Urban Tots Preschool), just like their parents were when they were kids.
55	* At the very end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ExtendedStay'', the Warden and the Mistress's family has been established as this with their [[UntoUsASonandDaughterAreBorn mixed-gender twins]] Matilda and Ethan and the "baby" Edward. (Although at this point, the twins are twenty years old; their brother being about four years younger than them.)
56	** [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Foreshadowed earlier in a dream]] Mistress has in Chapter 11.
57	* ''FanFic/KyoshiRising'', [[WesternAnimation/{{AvatarTheLastAirbender}} Kyoshi]] is the youngest of three (her older sister being approximately nine years older), and also the only [[ElementalPowers Bender]] in the entire family (not to mention the latest incarnation of [[GodInHumanForm the Avatar]]).
58	* In the epilogue of ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Naruto and Hinata are shown to have an infant daughter named Urara in addition to their canon son and daughter.
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61	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
62	* Fievel, Tanya, and Yasha Mouskewitz in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.
63	* [=LaShawn=], Kahlil, and Pee-wee in ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids''.
64	* Eep, Thunk, and Sandy in ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods''.
65	* Pacha and Chicha's children in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', even though the baby was only seen for a few brief seconds at the end of the film.
66	* The "warm" side of the Family Madrigal in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' consists of young adult daughter Dolores, teenage son Camilo, and TheBabyOfTheBunch Antonio, who celebrates his fifth birthday at the start of the movie.
67	* Middle school girl Violet, elementary school boy Dash, and baby Jack-Jack Parr in ''Franchise/TheIncredibles''. The ImmediateSequel keeps that dynamic.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': The Darling family has a teenage girl, a 10-year-old boy and a small toddler named Wendy, John and Michael respectively.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'': Despite Mother Rabbit having [[MassiveNumberedSiblings a large number of children]], the most prominent of her kids are Skippy (a boy), Sis (a girl) and Tagalong, who is relatively younger than the other two which makes her TheBabyOfTheBunch.
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73	* ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' always had the son and daughter, Pugsley and Wednesday. ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' gave them a baby brother called Pubert. He never appears again but an offhand reference in ''Addams Family Reunion'' says the family ate him.
74	* The Cooper Family from ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'' consists of two boys (Anthony and Alexander), a girl (Emily) and a baby (Trevor).
75	* In the short [=1950s=] film ''A Date With Your Family'' (seen on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''), the family in question included teenaged "Son" and "Daughter" and their little brother "Junior." They're an older variant on the trope; "Junior" is around eight.
76	* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'': In the timelines where Laurie is Michael's long lost sister and before Michael became a [[FromNobodyToNightmare homicidal maniac]], the Myers family included Michael (a boy), Judith (a girl) and Laurie, who was shown to be a baby/toddler during her time with her biological family.
77	* Nick, Amy and Adam Szalinski in ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' franchise (although they didn't appear together, since Amy had left home for college by the time Adam was introduced in ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'').
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80	[[folder:Literature]]
81	* ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' has two boys (Pom and Alexander), a girl (Flora), and a baby (Isabelle).
82	* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', at least since the addition of baby Honey Bear.
83	* In the children's book ''Boundless Grace" by Mary Hoffman, Grace laments that she doesn't have a "real family" like in her stories with a Mom, Dad, brother, girl, baby, cat, and dog. A trip to Africa to visit her father, helps her understand that families take many different forms.
84	* The later books in the ''Literature/{{Clementine}}'' series, beginning with ''Clementine and the Family Meeting'', feature Clementine dealing with the fact that her family is soon to be this. In ''Clementine and the Family Meeting'', she and her little brother first found out about it at the titular meeting. At first, Clementine is not at all happy about it because she feels their family is perfect as it is, and also doesn't see how the addition of a baby to the family is going to solve any of her problems. She begins, however, to warm up to the idea, due to a number of factors, such as learning from her grandparents that she was a very responsible and protective big sister to her little brother when he was born.
85	* In the old ''Literature/DickAndJane'' books, the two eponymous characters along with their toddler sister, Sally.
86	* '''Both''' families in ''The Doll People'' have a tween daughter, a slightly younger son, and a baby. It's lampshaded, too.
87	* In the ''Flossie Teacake'' books by Hunter Davies, the title character has two siblings (a brother and sister) who are seven and nine years older than her. All three characters are based on the author's real-life children.
88	* Tash and Zak Arranda in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' are being looked after, [[OrphansOrdeal with some difficulty]], by their uncle. When they find a baby they want to adopt him and make this, but [[spoiler: he's actually a {{Tykebomb}}.]]
89	* Lillebror from ''Literature/KarlssonOnTheRoof'' is seven or eight years old, so not a baby nor a toddler anymore. But his older siblings Bosse and Bettan are teenagers, so the family would have fitted into the trope a few years earlier.
90	* ''Literature/LittleCritter'' has had the main family like this since the late 80s, with the additions of Little Critter's younger siblings Little Sister and an unnamed baby brother (originally also a sister.)
91	* ''The Misadventures of Max Crumbly'' has Max, Megan and Oliver Crumbly.
92	* Olivia, Ian, and William in ''Literature/{{Olivia}}''.
93	* At the end of ''Return to Literature/PlanetTad'', the title character Tad and his ChildProdigy / AnnoyingYoungerSibling sister Sophie learn that their family will soon become this, with a new baby boy on the way. Neither is very enthused at first, but Tad begins to warm to the idea after learning that he will be a role model for his little brother, someone who can teach him right from wrong (he and his father agree that they can't count on Sophie for that) and that he'll be getting his own room.
94	* The Baudelaire siblings from ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
95	* The Balicki family from ''The Silver Sword''.
96	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has Han and Leia's kids: the twins Jaina and Jacen Solo, and their little brother [[DeadGuyJunior Anakin]].
97	* The 10-year-old twins Kestrel and Bowman Hath and their infant sister Pinto in ''The Wind Singer''. In the later books of ''The Wind On Fire'', the characters age.
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100	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
101	* In the fourth season of ''Series/{{ALF}}'', the Tanner family consisted of this, with Lynn, Brian, and Eric.
102	* Robbie, Charlene and Baby Sinclair in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''.
103	* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' started out as a series with two boys (P.J. and Gabe), a girl (Teddy) and a baby (Charlie). As the series progressed, Charlie grew up and Toby was born, making it a series with two boys, two girls, and a baby.
104	* ''Series/MadMen'' has the Draper children; Sally, Bobby, and baby Gene, although their parents split up soon after Gene's birth, so the "family" aspect is downplayed.
105	* In ''Series/TheRiches'', close in age siblings Cael and Didi are the boy and girl, and their seven-year-old brother Sam is the baby, to their parents Wayne and Dahlia.
106	* As in the books, ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', Klaus, Violet, and baby Sunny are one of these, especially as they're orphans.
107	* ''Series/StrangerThings'': The Wheelers have Nancy, Mike, and their barely-relevant toddler sister, Holly.
108	* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' has girl Alex, boy Justin, and their older-than-average little brother Max. In fact, the age spacing between the three of them seems suspiciously believable.
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111	[[folder: Podcasts]]
112	* ''Podcast/BrainLeak'': If said baby is BB, this counts for Sean, Evelyn and BB.
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115	[[folder:Theatre]]
116	* ''Theatre/TwoTwoTwoAGhostStory'': Sam, Jenny, and Phoebe.
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119	[[folder:Video Games]]
120	* The Beamish family in ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'' includes teenage daughter Tiffany, grade schooler Willy, and preschooler Brianna.
121	* If you make it back to Funkotron at the end of ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'', Toejam is revealed to have two younger twin sisters and a baby sibling in his family.
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124	[[folder:Webcomics]]
125	* Riyuokoan, Mimi and Enigma in ''Webcomic/FiyoraNya''.
126	* Holy, Polo and Elis in ''Webcomic/IrregularElis''.
127	* Rudy, Lindesfarne and Coney Dewclaw of ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''. Until they started aging up.
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130	[[folder:Western Animation]]
131	* Arthur, DW and Baby Kate in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/BB3B'': We have the 6-year-old twins Lucy and Louie, and the baby Billy Bob.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'' has pre-teen Eddie, teenager Steffy, and baby Abby.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': Starting out, the Generic Family consists of teenaged Kelly, preteen Derek, and not quite a baby, but preschool aged Bobby. From the fourth season onwards, twins Jake and Al are born into the family, promoting Bobby from his baby status and making the arrangement a girl, two boys, and two babies.
135	* On ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndPotato'', Chip and Spud's baby sister is born a little more than halfway through the first season of the series; Little Momma is shown pregnant with her beforehand. Chip is just starting kindergarten and Spud is maybe a year or two older.
136	* Doug, Judy and Cleopatra "Dirtbike" Funnie in ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' when the last one was born in the Disney version. The episode "Doug's Thanksgiving" even lampshades this by having a PR exec scouting for the quintessential "average" family, which must have "2.5 children[[labelnote:*]]A play on the fact that 2.5 children was the much-touted size of the average American family at the time[[/labelnote]] -- a boy, a girl, and a baby with a quirky name!" No points for guessing who he picks.
137	* Done with Duncan, Kimberly, and Jing in ''WesternAnimation/{{Duncanville}}'', but with Jing as a preschooler rather than a baby.
138	* Creator/SethMacFarlane's shows:
139	** Chris, Meg and [[EnfantTerrible Stewie Griffin]] in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
140	** Done in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' with Cleveland Jr., Roberta and Rallo, but Rallo is a kindergartner rather than a baby.
141	** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', where the baby role is instead taken by a 1,600-year-old alien. {{Subverted}} in "Rabbit Ears" when said alien diguises himself as a baby.
142	* Perkin, Posie, and Pootle (boy, girl, and toddler, respectively) in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlumps''.
143	* Theresa Maria (girl), Petey (boy), and Gina (toddler) in ''WesternAnimation/FuggetAboutIt''.
144	* Buzzbee, his older sister Rubee, and the baby Babee on ''WesternAnimation/TheHive''.
145	* The ''WesternAnimation/JayceAndTheWheeledWarriors'' episode "The Slaves of Adelbaren" contains a reversal of this trope, with the Lightning League encountering a teenaged girl whose much younger brother and sister are being held hostage by the Monster Minds.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', SequelSeries to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', reveals that Aang and Katara had three children together: Bumi, Kya, and the "baby" Tenzin.
147	* Played with with the Freemaker trio in ''WesternAnimation/LEGOStarWarsTheFreemakerAdventures'', with Zander (boy), Kordi (girl) and Rowan (another boy), who is the youngest, but as a preteen, not a baby.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionhearts'' has Kate, Spencer and Judy.
149	* An animated series based on the Fisher-Price toys called "Little People" (one episode can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsChVrnN_Ao here]]) involved a family whose children were Timmy, Penny, and "Baby Sister," who [[ADogNamedDog apparently didn't get her own name]].
150	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the Apple siblings: Applejack, her older brother Big Macintosh, and their younger sister Apple Bloom. It's relative in this case, as Apple Bloom is the only one who is still a kid.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'': Peanut (brother), Butter (baby sister), and Jelly Otter (sister). Another slight aversion from the normal rules -- Baby Butter is old enough to talk a little at least, and while the ages aren't certain, she may be only about three or four years younger than Peanut and Jelly.
152	* Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' who provide the page image.
153	%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': The Percedal family from episode 10 in season 3 on.
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