How about the young-ins?

princesscto · April 2011

I am 26, and I was on BC for 10 years b4 stopping it in October of 2010, got pregnant in December of 2010 after my DH and had decided to start trying and we discovered we had a blighted ovum at 11 weeks 1 day, This was our first pregnancy. I get very irritated with those comments for sure!

kate626 · April 2011

I will be 27 in July. I have known I would marry my husband since I met him seven years ago we have been together for five and will be married for a year in June... we have been waiting since we started dating to have kids... and got pregnant after we got married and obviously lost the baby. I hate when people tell me I still have time... we have been waiting for a baby for a long time...

Pacheco825 · April 2011

Im 24 and we have been TTC #2 for 16 months now. If one more person tells me im young and have time I am going to strangle them!!!!!!!

CashewsMommy · April 2011

roxygirl1281:
Carolee:
I'm 29 (not as young as some of you) and I get the "you still have time" line all of the time. I hate it. I mean, come on! We've been trying for 20 cycles and we don't have a take home baby yet.
This! I'm 29 as well....30 in December...and my mom still tells me I'm young! She had me when she was 22!!!

THIS!!! I'll be 30 in November and hear the "You're still young" line as well. It kills me.

ellebelle2384 · April 2011

busterbeagle:
I saw that there was a post today about 35+ TTCAL-ers, but I know there are some young girls on here, too. Who else is tired of hearing "Oh, you're so young, you have plenty of time!" from those well-meaning people who always say the wrong thing?
I'll be 25 on the 13th. A lot of the people who knew about my pregnancy were very surprised that it was planned. [B/}Even my doctor assumed it was a surprise[/B] (although I kept my name when we got married, so the different last names confused the office a bit).

I'm 27. When the doctor called with the results of the initial bloodwork to confirm pregnancy she first asked if I would be "okay" with a positive. I was definitely taken aback by that!

DCWJes · April 2011

I am 26, I had my first when I was 19 (8 days after my birthday) so I was very young with her and high-risk (I was underweight and for my age). Nobody has really mentioned much about my age since my husband is 10 years older than me and nobody (I dont think) really knows how old I am.

Daisy07gray · April 2011

I'll be 30 in 2 weeks and for the past 4 years people have been saying don't worry, you're young and you've got time. It stinks and has only gotten harder to listen to well meaning advise.

roxygirl1281 · April 2011

CashewsMommy:
roxygirl1281:
Carolee:
I'm 29 (not as young as some of you) and I get the "you still have time" line all of the time. I hate it. I mean, come on! We've been trying for 20 cycles and we don't have a take home baby yet.
This! I'm 29 as well....30 in December...and my mom still tells me I'm young! She had me when she was 22!!!

THIS!!! I'll be 30 in November and hear the "You're still young" line as well. It kills me.

I said to my DH last night...if this will be my one and only child, it will be okay. BUT my mom had me, three years later, she had my brother and then 7 years after that, she decided she wasn't done and needed one more and had my other brother. If I decide ten years after my first that I need another, I will be turning 41!!!

buckeyebaby814 · April 2011

busterbeagle:

I saw that there was a post today about 35+ TTCAL-ers, but I know there are some young girls on here, too. Who else is tired of hearing "Oh, you're so young, you have plenty of time!" from those well-meaning people who always say the wrong thing?

I'll be 25 on the 13th. A lot of the people who knew about my pregnancy were very surprised that it was planned. Even my doctor assumed it was a surprise (although I kept my name when we got married, so the different last names confused the office a bit).

Happy birthday soon!!

I am not quite as young as you all but I am 28, will be 29 in November. I of course have heard the, "at least you're still young, you've got plenty of time" response to my m/c. I feel like I don't have a ton of time, my mom had a hysterectomy in her early 40s, by the time she was my current age, she'd had one cyst-filled ovary removed and developed endometriosis. My maternal grandmother experienced all the same except for the hysterectomy. So no, I do not feel like time is on my side! I like this post, it's nice to see some women who are around my age... xnbride we're the same age!

ETA: don't get me wrong though... love ALL the women on this board, of all ages Wink

Temp878586125009588 · April 2011

I just turned 28. I'm not as "young" as some of you. But last year started the whole, "so when are you and DH going to start a family...." And the whole "your not that young anymore you don't want to wait too much longer!" My response at first was Indifferent

. (Mostly all of this came from my grandmother, and I'm "much older" than where the woman in my family had their first child. My mom and all my Aunt's were 18, and my grandmother was 24, *I think*)

JThomas221 · April 2011

I am 23. All the women in my family started having children in their very early 20's, except for my mom, who had me at 30, (and I was a surprise) and my sister at 36. I have heard the comments about how I'm so young, but I think they still think of me in their minds as a teenage girl. Nevermind that I moved out of my house when I was 18, or that DH and I have been married for over a year. lol... That's my family for you, I guess.

What my family doesn't even know is that we actually wanted a baby a year before we even started trying, and tried for six months before I got pg, so when they were all finding out I was pg it was a big surprise for them, but we had been waiting for that moment for a year and a half! Thinking back, I wish we would have just gone for it and started TTC a lot earlier. But of course, then I would have gotten pg right away! lol

passion_fruit08 · April 2011

wish2bemommy:
I am 20 I will 21 in july!! yay!!

Ditto! What day in July? Mine is July 7th

DH and I have been together for three years and engaged for 2 years before we finally tied the knot in August of this past year. Our pg was a surprised but we were absolutely thrilled and the best part was I was due two days after our first wedding anniversary. Once I m/c we debated on whether to try again now or wait awhile, but we can't imagine our lives without a LO in our near future now. So we made the decision at my age of 20 and his age of 22 to try to start our family. I'm so sick of people staring at me as I'm buying pregnancy tests and assuming I made a mistake and hoping I'm not pregnant! I want nothing more than to have a beautiful child growing inside me that I can hold and love for the rest of my life. I want to make DH a father so badly and I still feel so guilty that I didn't succeed the first time. Yes I know I'm young, have "plenty of time" and should "enough being a twosome." That's all fine and dandy for some, but I'm readying (as is DH) to add to our little family.

spongebobsquarepanties · April 2011

You know what bugs me about the "too young" comment to people in their 20s? The fact that most of our parents were in their 20s when they had us. My mom was 25 when she had me and in no way was she a "young parent" in comparison to some of my friends. How is it that I am too young at 27 (almost 28)?

Also, I find that everyone my age where I live have kids with the exception of the ones who have the same job as me - teaching. All my coworkers started having kids in their 30s. The problem for me is that I am ready now, AND my obgyn told me that I should aim to have them before 30. Getting awefully close aren't I?

Fififa21 · April 2011

I just turned 25 in February. I had my first mc a few months after my 24th birthday and we started trying when I was still 23.

somnybooks · April 2011

I am 25, will be 26 in a few months. DH too. I hate hearing "you're so young; plenty of time!" Anytime I hear it, this is what I want to say:

"Well, it took me 7 months to get pregnant the first time. That it happened at all was a fluke of some sort (annovulatory). I have PCOS so probably have more m/c in my future. In those 7 months, I had 3 cycles. Going off that data, I may have had 1 more before the year mark. That means I had maybe 4 chances to get pregnant in an entire year. With only a 20% chance of getting KU (if I even ovulated and we BD at the right time). If we want to have more than one (which we do), we most likely will have many years of long battles ahead of us. So, hearing that "I have time" is not comforting at all. Andplusalso, my baby died. All the time in the world can't bring him or her back."

buckeyebaby814 · April 2011

chrystalr03:
I am 25 and our pregnancy was a surprise. I will be 26 by the time we plan on trying again. I feel like I have done everything right with my life and now I just want a baby. Why should I have to wait any longer? Because I am so young? I have friends with 4 children and they are younger than me. I have friends older than me that are not even dating. Why does it matter how old or young a person is? If you are ready I say go for it.

I just looking at your siggy and we have a lot in common (besides that you're younger than me)

I married DH in August (last year though) I got my BFP a few days before you and our EDD were a day apart.

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