How long did you wait to have kids?

amywalt1684

How long did you wait to have kids after getting married (or meeting if you aren't hitched)?

Do you think it was a good amount of time? Now that you have LO, would you have waited longer or pulled the trigger sooner?

We started trying around our 1 year wedding anniversary and got pregnant I think within the 3rd month. I am happy with how it turned out timewise. Everyone kept telling to wait and enjoy married life a bit. For us, life and our relationship hasn't changed that much.

SarahPLiz

Sparky was conceived on our honeymoon. I had waited long enough at that point. 

StefandTodd

Our LO was born 5 days before our 3rd wedding anniversary.  It was good timing, I think

heathlyn9

We started trying 6 months after we got married, but only because we had our wedding in January (on our 5 year anniversary of dating) & our reception/honeymoon in July. I didn't want to be pregnant during our honeymoon.

Honestly, if I had known that it would take us 5 cycles to get pregnant (not too long, I shouldn't complain) we would have started trying sooner.

red1976

We tried for a honeymoon baby. However life had other plans. 14 months and 1 loss later we were finally expecting.

red1976

StefandTodd:

Our LO was born 5 days before our 3rd wedding anniversary.  It was good timing, I think

I didn't know you were expecting #2! Congrats!

NotSharknado

3 months after dh and I met I got pregnant with DS. Then 11 years later we had DD. Not ideal but we are happy. Ps. Both pregnancies were planned. We were very much in love with each other early on in our relationship and decided to have a baby together:)

eesome

We got pregnant on our 1 year wedding anniversary. It just so happened I was ovulating that day and BAM...pregnant!

I think it was perfect for us because the 3 years before the pregnancy, we had a great time traveling and enjoying just us. Plus, I was already 28, and wanted to get the baby-making started.

Duffgurl

How long did you wait to have kids after getting married (or meeting if you aren't hitched)? Well DH and I have been together since I was teen. We were never in a rush to have children and honestly we just started talking more and more about babies and one day we went out we decided together for me to stop my BC and we got pregnant very quickly J So we waited about 7 years.

Do you think it was a good amount of time? Yes because we have gotten to do a lot of things we wouldn?t be able to do now that we have our baby boy.

Now that you have LO, would you have waited longer or pulled the trigger sooner? DH says we should have did it sooner but I am a true believer of everything happens for a reason and I wouldn?t change a thing J

EmSue412

I got pregnant 7 months after we got married.  For us, we were ready even before we were married.  So yes, it was the perfect amount of time, and no, we would not have wanted to try earlier, or wait any longer.  We were together 4 years before we were married and enjoyed a lot of "just the 2 of us" time.  We don't regret a thing.

ClickMama

We started trying 4ish years after we got married.  We wanted to travel, etc etc.  Well, then it took a while to actually get PG.  Tried for a whole year on our own, then fertility took about 7 months for us.  It was an interesting journey, the whole fertility thing.  A lot of people get really into it and it becomes their life.  I tried really hard to not let it become that, so for me its a distant memory.

Suesse2009

We started trying just after our 1st anniversary.  Nina was born about 6 weeks before our 2nd anniversary.  I think that was good timing for us.  I was already in my 30's so I didn't want to wait too long.  

BnchaNums

We had dd two mos after our 3rd wedding anniversary

 

MMS88

I got pregnant 2 years after we got married. We started "trying" 6 months before our wedding and were blindsided with my diagnoses of PCOS. Fast forward a year and a half plus provera and clomid and I was pregnant! DH and I have been together for 9 years so we were ready for kiddos, but my body on the other hand not so much lol.

fancefpp

I got pregnant 7 months after we were married. Don't regret a thing!

mgarza1231

We'd only been married a couple of months when we conceived LO. I think it was perfect.

animalcrckers

i believe DD#1 was conceived on our first anniversary. DH says he knows "exactly" when she was conceived but i have no idea the exact date. it was close enough though.

 We have been dating since sophomore year of high school SO we had never been trying prior to our wedding. after our wedding i went off the pill b/c i was having health problems and i just never went back on them for some reason.  If we didn't have kids we might have travelled more, maybe... i dont know. i dont think we really missed out on anything. i absolutely LOVE my babies and my hubby. i actually wish we could afford a baby#3 right now. baby fever AH!

catahoulatte

We waited 3 and a half years after we got married. We wanted the time to buy a house, travel, and have fun as a married couple before we added a baby.

I probably would have waited another year, if I could do it again. For several reasons. But I don't regret deciding to TTC when we did.

StefandTodd

red1976:

StefandTodd:

Our LO was born 5 days before our 3rd wedding anniversary.  It was good timing, I think

I didn't know you were expecting #2! Congrats!

Thank you

bundymommy

I got pregnant with DD two months before our 2nd anniversary. For us it was the perfect amount of time. I just turned 25 last week, so I don't think I would have wanted a baby much earlier than when DD was born.

Monsieur_et_Madame_Ha

I wanted to wait until we were married and had our own place (vs renting). We got married in Aug. '08 (after being together for 8 years), moved out of our apartment  and into our condo the first weekend of December of the same year. Got my BFP in January '09.

I think it was a perfect amount of time. Like I said, DH and I had been together for 8 years at that point (living together for 7), so we had plenty of time to get to know each other and enjoy each other before TTC. And to be honest, having our own place before having a baby was more important to me than being married.

BK33

We had been dating for 3 yrs when we got married so after the wedding, we waited two months.  It was enough time for us.  We already have a son (DH's son from first marriage) and he lives with us full time so it was never really just us.  I feel like we had LO at a good time because of my age (34) and we want to have at least one more.  I do however wish we could have purchased our home first.  We will be purchasing our first home this fall but it's tight right now in our two bedroom apartment.  I also really miss vacationing but I guess i would feel like that even if we waited.

JenWhite123

DD was born a few months short of our 9 year anniversary. For us, it was and still is perfect timing

countrywed

BlinkMe182:

We had our LO 1 week after our 4th wedding anniversary. The timing was good for our age and what was happening in our life.

This!! except 11 days after the 4th wedding anniversary and you must have got married the weekend or two before me since your LO is a bit older.

lj smith

DD was born 2 months before our second anniversary. We had a miscarriage before that. We essentially started trying about six months into marriage. We knew we wanted kids and had been together since high school. 

Sometimes I think it was a little too soon, when I see our friends still enjoying the stay out late and party nights. But then I wouldn't trade my babies for the world.  

leducsmith

We started trying to conceive about 5 years into our relationship.  I wasn't in any real rush.  It took us about a year of actively trying with about 5 months of charting for us to become pregnant. 

We wouldn't change a thing.   We also really wanted to start having conversations with SO daughter (who was 11 at the time) before we started TTC about the possibility of a sibling.   We needed her to be confortable with it also!

Misty001

We lived together for 5 years before getting married, then I got pregnant right around our 4th wedding anniversary. I use to work night shift and 2 years before I got pregnant we tried to conceive and were not able to. As so as we came to terms with no baby I switched jobs and was pregnant in a month. So I'm a believer in it will happen when it's ment to hapen and wouldn't change a thing

Mrs. Stew

We were married a little over 3 years when E was born - together for 5 years.  I think it was good timing!