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Poll: What made you finally decide to TTC?
What made you decide to TTC or did you just wake up one day and decided that it was time.
Last Christmas, I started to feel that I wanted to expand my family. I wanted to celebrate XMAS at home with a family.
and you?
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Re: Poll: What made you finally decide to TTC?
DH and I were married for 1 year and just said "Hey! Its about time we tried!" Of course that was a year ago now.....
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Just because something isn't happening for you right now doesn't mean it will never happen.
IUI #1 - BFN IUI #2 - BFN
IVF - Starting injects May 25 IVF #1 - BFP!
My DH and I always talked about waiting until after our first wedding anniversary to start thinking about TTC. Well, our anniversary came and went, and its like a lightbulb went on and baby fever began! We are hoping for a 2013 baby!
Another thing that helped jumpstart me was support from my mom. We are pretty close, and so when I brought up the idea of TTC, and she agreed/encouraged me that we should start trying, it definitely pushed me further in that direction!
I didn't want my LO to be too old before we tried again, I want them to be close in age so they can relate to each other easier.
My sister and I are 5 years apart and we couldn't ever relate to one another until we were older and age didn't matter so much, but I still feel out of touch. H feels the same way with his brother whom he is 4 years older than, we just come from two different times and we want LO to get to relate to his siblings.
Plus I love seeing LO run around and play, we want him to have a sibling to be rambunctious with!
TTC Since Aug 2011/
ME:34 all clear/DH:41 DX Severe MFI/
IVF w/ICSI OCT 2012 Stims started 10/8/ER 10/19/12/ET 10/24/Beta#1 11/2=BFN (beta was 1.2)
IVF 2.0-Baseline 11/7/12 beta 0/All Clear
Stim start 11/7/12//ER 11/19 11M//10F
ET 2 embies 11/24//Beta#1 28 Beta #2 23 Beta#3 29
stop meds Beta#4 37/C/P 5W5D EDD:8/12/13/IVF#3 in Jan
Ivf 3-frozen 3 poor 3day/fet=bfn
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This. Though 2u3 is probably more realistic at this point.
I have wanted to have more kids for a while but I had to make sure the timing was as good as it will get. I have two teenage kids and I wanted to make sure they were happy and comfortable with everything before adding to the mix. I got re-married in February and started TTC right away.
I knew I was ready for a long time, I was just waiting on life to catch up. (kids are happy, secure, love my husband, husband is eager and excited to have a baby and we are married so anytime now is great)
Originally I thought we would wait a few years after getting married but out of no where the baby fever hit me hard!
Also, we'd like to have 3 kids, so we wanted to get started sooner rather than later.
Baby #1, born 3/1/13, Baby #2 due 12/13/14
I love reading everyone's 'stories'! So sweet. :-)
My husband and I became pregnant (total accident - I was on the pill!) and I miscarried at 9 weeks. It just made us realize how lucky we had been to not only have each other but to have the chance to bring life into the world.
It's so inspiring (and completely awesome) to read all of your experiences! :-)
With LO we both just felt like we were ready. We had enjoyed our lives as a married couple for 2 years and were settled into our house. It just felt like the natural next step for us.
This time around we will start TTC'ing in August because we don't want our kids too close in age, but also don't want them more than 4 years apart.
I don't know...H just one day brought it up. I thought he was crazy and laughed about it for about two days. And then I was like, Seriously??
That was November. We decided to wait til March to give my body some time off the pill and also to give us some time to make sure we were making a good decision and not an emotional one.
So now is our first cycle! And honestly when my fertile window came up, we were like "Are you sure? This is big. This is no turning back, life is never the same, big. Are you sure???" for the first few days of it so we didn't BD until the day I actually O'd. Oops!
First Child born
5/5/14 and 6/5/14
11/14
Chemical Pregnancy
9/5/15
Second after severe bleeding for 18 weeks due to subchorionic hematoma
Expecting Number 3 due 10/31/2020
I've always wanted kids for as long as I can remember.
DH and I wanted to spend at least a year after getting married just having fun, traveling, and whatnot. So now we've been married a year and a half, our finances are stable, we are (fingers crossed) closing on a house next month, and I am turning 30 in Oct (I always said I wanted to be pregnant by 30).
I was just waiting for DH to say he's ready to start trying. I tried my best not to pressure him or make him "ready" before he was really there, because I know we both have to be on board 100%. So he was the one who said it was time to actually start
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The decision was kind of a no-brainer for us. We have been together for 6 years, living together for 5 and just got married last summer. We both know that we want children, and just wanted a few months of actual marriage and relaxation after the wedding before starting to try for a spawn.
We have both had stable jobs for a while now and we have a lovely home with plenty of space for family additions, so there is nothing standing it our way. Also, the Hubs is 33 and I am 30. . . I would love to have at least 2 kids by the time I am 35, so it's time to get started!
Ditto!
I already had a 2.5 yr old when I met my husband and began dating him.
From the jump, we both knew we wanted to get married and have a child someday. We're one of those couples who talk about all that serious stuff on the first date. Pretty quickly we knew we wanted to do that together, within a few weeks actually.
We've been talking about it for three years. At first we were waiting to get married (for his families sake), then DH changed jobs and it was a major shift. The past two years we've been waiting because it's been hectic with his job due to big things in the works, and it's hard to get pregnant when your husband is constantly traveling to other states and countries.
And then the baby rabies struck him in December. He's got it bad. When we're in public I will catch him grinning like the Cheshire cat at the little ones, his whole face lit up.
The plan was to start trying in June around our one yr wedding anniversary. But he said he couldn't wait that long and we started trying in January.
I didn't think I ever would want to be married or have kids... Then I met my husband and that all went out the window. He always knew he wanted kids, he is everyone's favourite uncle and will make an amazing dad.
We've been married 9 months, and had planned on waiting at least a year. We got pregnant in the fall (unplanned, I had an IUD) and lost the pregnancy at 7 weeks.
Somehow loosing a pregnancy made me realize how much I wanted to have a baby, and fast tracked our TTC plans.
BFP #1:10/31/10 DS born 6/22/11BFP #3:4/24/12 DD born 12/31/12
This !
Trying since Jan 2011. Unexplained IF.
2 IUIs = BFN.
1 IVF (Dec 2013) = BFN.
FET, 2 frosties (June 13, 2014)
14dp5dt-June 27 -BFP, beta 2061. 2nd beta >5000, 3rd beta >5000, 2 sacs 06/30.
Twin Girls - 02/11/15 - at 37 weeks (no NICU, home with me at 3 days).
I wanted to have a family so badly starting at about the time I was 25. It is one of the things that gave me the strength to walk away from a rocky 6-year relationship that I knew wasn't right, even saying no to a marriage proposal. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
But two years later, along came the love of my life, who I had known for a long time and always knew was someone very special. When DH and I were married at age 30, there was basically no more waiting. We had had the discussion about children and wanting them to be close together before we had become engaged. We took just a few more months after we were married to soak in the lack of parental responsibility before coming off BC. For #2, we have not tried to avoid ever since DD's birth. BF took care of that for 1 year.. now that AF is back, we're able to actively try.
We both knew we didn't want to wait too long, but also wanted to enjoy being married for a bit and take a really cool trip to a remote destination (and I didn't want to be KU and far from medical care for that).
That was in January, and now we feel ready to be parents.
TTC since August 2011, Me = 40, DH = 38
Unexplained IF. Tried Clomid for 3 cycles. All BFNs. BFP 1/6/13. Chemical pregnancy.
Moving on to IVF#1. ER 11/26/13, 16 eggs retreived, 12 mature and all fertilized. 2 blasts transferred on 12/1. All other embies arrested so nothing left to freeze. Beta 12/10 = BFN. IVF #2 March 2014. BFP!!! TEAM BLUE!!!