GTKY: Why ttc now?

bookworm982 · December 2012

Since I'm relatively new to the board this go around, I don't know everyone's stories. Realizing that made me curious. What made you decide to ttc now?

artistlife · December 2012

We actually started in June. We have a 4 year old and my DH was finally ready for a second.
We had to take a 3 month break for timing purposes.

ETA...typo fixed

kali55 · December 2012

I'm in Canada and we get 50 weeks of maternity leave from EI. I'm going back to work in January and I would like to get another maternity leave as soon as possible to be able to come back home and spend time with my son and another baby :-)

Pas1224 · December 2012

I have some very early stage medical issues and won't be able to take a break from meds after next year.

erollis · December 2012

We've been together for 10 years when we married. By this point we were ready to add to our family.

eyris · December 2012

We decided about a year and a half ago that we would start trying this fall.

We always knew we wanted kids and I think seeing my friends with their children and having a house, good jobs -- we just felt like it was time and gave ourselves some room to be us for a while.

My DH turned 30 this year and I will be 28 this week, so that is a factor, too. I wanted to have my first before I'm 30.

insertclevername · December 2012

We have been talking about it for about 6 months or so. DS turned 2 in November and we all went on a cruise at the beginning of December. We didn't want to start TTC prior to vacation just in case I got pregnant quickly. I didn't want to deal with 1st tri symptoms while on vacation.

We want DS to have a sibling somewhat close in age and I also want to be done having children before age 35.

bookworm982 · December 2012

We want a large family (4+ kids), so having second soon makes sense. We figure we'll consider how long to wait between future pregnancies after we see what it's like with two children.

More than that, dh is a twin and I have a sister who was adopted when we were both 2. DH and I loved having a sibling our age. DD won't have a twin (or "almost twin" as my sister and I call ourselves), but a sibling just a year younger would be close.

nlscroggins · December 2012

we have been talking about it since before we were even married. DH and i both really want kids (or just one), and with my pcos and crazy cycles we knew we needed to plan for it to take a while.

2Dash · December 2012

Well... DS is 16.5 months. My OBGYN asked me to wait 24 months before getting pregnant again due to my C-Section ( others have told me that they were told to wait less time than that). DH and I think at this point we want three kids and we don't want them too far apart. I'm hoping to get pregnant in the next 6 months (just started cycle #2 of TTC#2)

Welshgirl12 · December 2012

We were waiting, hoping that the hubster would get into Grad school. When he wasn't successful we decided to go for it now. We feel in a fine place financially and I dont want to wait any longer!!

Cupcakes339 · December 2012

DH and I were talking about it on and off. We just didn't feel ready before. Finally we both felt the biological clock and feel ready! Went off BCP in Aug and this is TTC C1.

agagosta and all the ladies, good luck to you~

kje120 · December 2012

Because we want a second kid and we're not spring chickens (me: 36 and DH: 41)

ky29 · December 2012

We've been together for about 8 years.. Married just over a year. Originally we were going to start trying at the 1 year mark. But I talked him into bumping that up about 7 months. Now I'm glad we did because there are issues and I'd rather find all that out sooner than later.

SCSmith2011 · December 2012

This is a second marriage for both of us. I'm in my late 30's. We need to make this happen sooner rather than later. If I had known it would take us this long I'd have thrown out the BC before our wedding.

Nichole0220 · December 2012

We've been together for about five years. I had my dd at age 19 and go figure thy relationship failed from day one. Dh and I met and he took my daughter on. He is all she knows. His family treats her as their own. We have lived together since dd was about 2. We are building our first house and now is the time. We have been trying exactly 1 year this month.

rmcgibbon · December 2012

DH and I got married in October and right before we got married, we decided after talking about it for a year that we were both ready to start trying for #1 as soon as we were married. I will be 27 at the end of this month and I wanted to have my first baby by the time I was 28. We'll see if that happens!

golfingdarwinfish · December 2012

DH and I have been together for 10 years (married for 5) and never planned on having children. We were actually vehemently against it for quite sometime. I wanted a crazy number of degrees and a career, think that for sometime I was actually the greater force against it. We both turned 30 this year, and I started thinking more about the comment I often made, "We're not ready.", and realized that in my mind, we would probably never be ready and that that really wasn't a valid excuse. We sat down and talked about it and realized we could check all the typical "ready" boxes (education, career, financially stable, healthy marriage, etc.). I also just started to feel that something was missing, and that a child would fulfill us in a way that nothing else ever would.

After that conversation I consulted my obgyn about taking the next step. I opted to have genetic testing performed (I'm a molecular geneticist, so was uber paranoid about this), found I was a carrier for one disease included in the panel (Counsyl); DH was all clear.

I turned 30 in November, and just had my 6 month "anniversary" at work, so now we are all systems go and on cycle 1!

Kimbac13 · December 2012

H and I have been together for 6.5 years and have always wanted a family. Since we are both in our 30s, already own a home and generally just feel ready, we decided to start TTC right away after the wedding.

femmepink · December 2012

We want a family. We're financially ready, emotionally ready, we've done our traveling...we feel like we are good to go. We have a lot of love to give, and after my miscarriage I realized more than ever how much fulfillment being parents would bring. Right now we have a lot of love between each other but it still feels pretty empty.

Ajoyd · December 2012

I've always known I wanted children and quite frankly I'm not getting any younger. I'm pushing 35 and ideally would like at least two children. DH and I got married in August and started TTC right after the wedding.

novelblessings · December 2012

We've been talking about it for a year and DH was just getting close to being "ready". We started not tyring/not preventing, then I found out I have PCOS. DH has been on board since.

jdebaie · December 2012

We bought a house exactly a year ago and finally feel "ready". DH is 6 years older than me and really wanted to start trying (of course I was on board too!)

tdf2010 · December 2012

We've always wanted at least 2 kids that were close in age. With DD, it took us a year to successfully have a baby so we wanted to start trying soon just in case it takes us a year.

modernfairytale8709 · December 2012

We've been married for 3 and a half years, and I'm very stable in my career. I enjoy great benefits at work, and DH isn't getting any younger! lol! He just turned 34, so I thought it was time to start trying for our first.

I just went off bcp on friday, and have just started the withdrawal bleed. I had been on Jolessa, which is a generic 3-month pill, for about 2 years so I'm not expecting to O with any regularity any time soon, but I can always hope!

Excited to be a mommy, but enjoying the remaining "alone" time I have with my hubby!

Good luck ladies!

Bug1018 · December 2012

We had talled about trying but had not decided when, then we found out that my endo was worse than we thought and I was in a lot of pain all of the time. We wanted to try and get pregnant before I began treatment for endo because we knew that we would have to wait to try when I was on the medication. Then I did the treatment and we started trying again after I finished it.

curlylocks3 · December 2012

Simply put, we're ready. We waited for some of my medical issues to get under control and then for me to switch shifts at work to one that would be more workable with childcare/a baby.

cyndielise · December 2012

Baby fever... lol!

We already have a 10 month old son, but we knew we wanted our children close together when we started a family. :]

bornmommy · December 2012

We want our kiddos close together! Ideally we would have 2 under 2.

MzCurnett8886 · December 2012

We found out this week that I have medical issues that unless we start now we won't be able to have kids in the future. Of course we got this news with a deployment looming Sad

We wanted 4+ with 2-4 year gaps in ages

MrsW062610 · December 2012

We have been married for 2 1/2 years and decided we are both ready. We are in a great place emotionally and in our marriage and getting more financially stable. Ready for our first

swirl25 · December 2012

Our DD will be 2 at the end of January, and we'd like our kids to be close in age. I'm an only child and DH is 4.5 years older than my BIL, and they're not super close. I know there are no guarantees, but I feel like the closer they are, the more likely they'll be better friends!

jeffsjayme · December 2012

Cause we want a baby. Several of them. Not all at once, but one after the other.

sunlavender · December 2012

We wantta da buhbey.

runningpenguin · December 2012

DH and I went into our marriage with a four year plan. We spent 5 years of our 10 year relationship in a long distance relationship, so we needed time to just be together. We're at the 3 and a half year mark now but a few months ago, when my twin nieces were visiting, I looked at DH and said I want to be a mommy and I want to start now. He was neck deep in baby snuggles and agreed.

ChuggingWater · December 2012

If ds hits 9 or so I would be content being a mom of one. He is 5.5 now.

jenaw84 · December 2012

We're on cycle 12 of TTC. We've talked about having a child for a long time, but after about 6 months of being married and 2 other family members having LOs running around we both really wanted to start trying. We weren't aware of how long it would take us or how much longer it might, but either way we will have a child and can't wait for that day to get here.

NydaP · December 2012

We've been TTC for 18 months. We started when our second son was 18 months old. We wanted the kids to be about 2-3 years apart. That plan is clearly out the window.

Skyjewell23 · December 2012

We have a few reasons:

1) DH is almost 30. We want 4 kids that are spaced about 3-4 years apart. He has this fear of being an "old" dad.

2) I'm graduating in May, it is the perfect time to take a year off before grad school if we do get pregnant before August. (If not, then I won't have the baby until after i'm done with grad school).

3) I have always wanted to be a fairly young mother, I will be 23 in May and I feel like thats a pretty good age to start having kids.

4) We want to be parents more than anything and no one is ever 100% ready. We are financially and emotionally ready so there is no better time then the present right?

Jenn06L80 · December 2012

DH is 38 and I am 32. DD is two. We don't have any international travel plans for next summer so far. I am baby crazy. These are some of the reasons why we are TTC now.

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