Since it is so early I feel like there is a lot to learn about each other! Let's get this board booming!
How long have you and your SO been together? Are you Married?...if so, let's hear a bit about your wedding? Was this sweet baby a surprise or planned out?
Married:09/27/14
Baby N-Born:10/29/15
Our Angel: EDD: 05/11/17. MC at 6 weeks
Baby #2- EDD: 07/18/17
Re: GTKY- SO edition
This is our second baby. We knew we wanted them close together and had just decided to start trying and got our BFP! It came a little sooner than I was expecting but it's sure nice to not go through the stress of trying for months (or longer)
Our Angel: EDD: 05/11/17. MC at 6 weeks
Baby #2- EDD: 07/18/17
Our first dd was planned we wanted to start trying after our wedding and we'll we conceived on our honeymoon the weekend after lol.
This second one was also planned we just decided we would let it happen if it happened.
My husband proposed on the beach with a message in the bottle, we got married in a theater which was awesome as everyone had comfy seats and could see us on stage. My husband sang and played guitar Adam Sandlers grow old with you as well as added a few extra lines as I walked down the aisle this was a big surprise for me.
This will be our third child together. Our first was not planned, he will be 9 at the end of this month. Our second child was planned. He just turned 2. And this baby was planned as well!
Our son is nearly 3, and was not planned, but wasn't unwanted either. This one was planned, we had been ttc for 9 months and NTNP for 6 months beforehand
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
He proposed at Atlantis with a dolphin bringing me my ring. We did a big engagement party in Jordan with his family and then a wedding at a brewery in Chicago suburbs with my family. (He had a few of his siblings there)
We started trying in May 2015 and had a rough time ttc. I was diagnosed with PCOS in May 2016 and then my initial HSG showed blocked tubes in June 2016. Felt incredibly defeated, depressed, and ready to give up. Delayed surgery and repeat HSG under laparoscopy till September so we could enjoy our summer without worrying about recovery. In month 17 of ttc, We conceived in Prague! This baby was very planned but very much a surprise at the same time!!!
@sgreen19 that's sweet he sang as a surprise.
We've had to jump through a few hurdles to get here in our TTC journey.. but we are here finally and this baby was very much planned It is our first.
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DH and I have been together 7 years, and celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary yesterday. We had about 800 people at our wedding (including kids). Our videographer included a montage from the movie UP at the end of our video which perfectly summed up the celebration with my rowdy family.
We have 2 boys.This is my 5th pregnancy and very much wanted, but a surprise.
11.2011 - DS1
02.2013 - loss at 6 wks
06.2014 - DS2
10.2015 - loss at 12 wks
03.2017 - DD
We we had a medium sized wedding. About 115 people. Church wedding with reception at a hotel. People still talk 8 years later how it's the best wedding they've been to and how much fun it was. It was my dream wedding. I married my soulmate and best friend that day. I sound like such a sap lol.
I wouldn't say this baby was planned. Almost 7 months ago our 3rd was stillborn at 23 weeks gestation due to Full Trisomy18. We weren't trying but aren't good at preventing either apparently. So far my hubby is more excited than me. I'm just scared shitless this isn't a viable pregnancy. I can't imagine losing another baby the way we did. Odds are less than 1% for it to happen again but it still could sadly.
We were definitely trying for this baby! DS is 9 months, and I've had baby fever ever since I met him!
We got married at our church and had our reception at Disney. We are huge Disney nerds and even had Mickey and Minnie come to our wedding! We danced the whole night away, it was awesome!
This will be baby #3, and yes it was planned!
@Frostfair This will also be our last baby as well, kinda bittersweet knowing that!
@mcvgal That is a lot of people at your wedding!!!
@sarah0985 I love that proposal, so cool!
#1 DD Aug 2014 @39weeks via CS
#2 Due May 2,2017 hopeful VBAC
This baby was definitely planned. With DD, it only took 2 cycles before my BFP so we decided to wait until she was 18 months old before TTC again. That was in June 2015 and after 16 cycles, including working with an RE and multiple unsuccessful IUIs, we were about to give up completely when I got this BFP. Since I will be 40 when I deliver, this is definitely going to be our last one and of I have a RRCS I plan on getting my tubes tied at the same time.
DD: 12/31/13
LO#2 due 5/6/17
I wish we could get lucky and not have to super plan out a pregnancy, but we have definitely planned ours. ..
We have been together 16 years this October
Are you Married?...if so, let's hear a bit about your wedding?
We've been married 11 years. The wedding was a lot of fun. We are foodies and the food was only "meh" (because our venue required their subpar catering) but the music and dancing were awesome, and it was great to have nearly all of our friends & family there (at that time -- now we have 11 more years of friendship, plus people's kids, etc).
Answering these first two questions makes me feel old, but I was married somewhat young.
Was this sweet baby a surprise or planned out?
They were all planned, but this one is the one that we were least sure about having. That said, it was in some ways the most hyper-planned. I won't get into the details, but we decided ahead of time that given some calendar considerations (career, age gap, school cut-off dates, etc), we had 5 chances. If we didn't get pregnant in that timeframe, we'd give up and probably even do a vasectomy. That said, I'm nervous, because if I miscarry, that might be it. We'll see how we feel. We got pregnant on the first try, a first for us (the others took 3 times).
The older siblings are 5 and almost-3. (Age gap was part of the "other considerations" for putting a time limit on this.)
Make a pregnancy ticker
This baby was definitely planned. I'm almost 34 and this will be our first so we wanted to get started as soon as we got married.
#1 DS Tanner Ray 10/13/1998
#2 Natural M/C 03/2014
#3 DS Beckett Jameson 05/14/2015
#4 EDD 05/12/2017
Hubs and I have been together 17 years (since sophomore year of highschool), married 10 years. Our wedding feels like a lifetime ago and it seems like we were totally different people (just babies at 23). At the time, it was perfect for what we wanted--barn wedding/reception with about 200 people and our college besties as bridesmaids and groomsmen...now our lives seem so much different, we would definitely do something else if we were getting married now--like a courthouse ceremony and a huge blow out cocktail party but just with our close friends and family.
This baby (and our son, who is 2) was planned! I will say this BFP was a surprise because we've been half-assed trying for a few months but just REALLY started trying last month and, BAM! I think I'm still a little in disbelief...
This baby was definitely planned. We'd been trying since December.
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
1/7/2015 Twins born @ 34 weeks
I've been with H since college, almost 10 years. Married for a little over 3. We got married at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore (where the Ravens play) and it. was. awesome. I will cherish those pictures forever.
We plan literally every step of our lives, so this baby was definitely planned and prayed for.
@emilyalso I don't know why, but I always think it's so cool when people meet online. I know it's so common now but I still love it!
@aliciad224 The backdrop to your ceremony is breathtaking.
@sarah0985 That might be the best freakin' engagement story I've ever heard.
As for babies... DD was let's go off the pill and see what happen. This one was I'll track my cycle, BD often during the fertile days and hope we get pregnant this cycle. We didn't want the two to be far apart in age. Fx this one will stick!
Me: 36 DH:35
Married: 7/10/2016
TTC#1 - May 2016
BFP 9/6/2016 - Missed MC 10/20/2016
BFP 5/5/2017 - CP
IVF #1 - June 2017 - Transferred 1 fresh 4 AA embryo. 7/9 Beta #1 - 161
Adam Born on 3/18/18
We have known each other since high school, and have been married 8 years. We were married in December and had a gorgeous church wedding on a cold winter day.
This baby was very planned.
My husband and I have been together for 4 years. We just got married this May with a church ceremony followed by a reception at a vineyard in NH. DH and I aren't very religious but we were both raised Catholic and it just felt right to do it that way - my grandparents and DH's mom were so happy about it. Plus the church was gorgeous! Our wedding was perfect IMO and everyone tells us how much fun they had (which I attribute mostly to the open bar! )
I stopped my birth control the week of our wedding and started tracking my fertile days as soon as my cycle regulated so baby was very much planned.
BFP #2 12/17/16, EDD 8/26/17
L born at 35+6 on 7/28/17
We got married in a cute chapel in my home town. My husband's bandmates were part of the bridal party, as well as his brother and some close friends. My bridesmaids were good friends and family members. We had a laid back approach and let everyone wear whatever they wanted for comfort and financial reasons.
Edited to add: this baby was planned over a year in advance.
We we rented a huge beach house in the middle of the Caribbean and had close family and friends join us for a week. A local priest married us on the beach. We had our receptions (his family is out of state) a month later.
TW- our loss earlier this year solidified for us that we want to be parents sooner than later.. So this pregnancy was planned!
We got married on a golf course, it was 75* in Aug in Chicago which was amazing!!! It was a rusticy wedding, mason jars and chalk boards.
This was a planned baby!! I'm so excited.
ETA. Thank you @slam1110
@cubslove12 I've been meaning to ask you, are you a Cubs fan? Die-hard right here for the team.
We got married in a rock quarry and it waited to pour minutes after the ceremony!
Our first baby took four months of ttc so this second unplanned one was quite a shock. I mean, we were about to start trying in a few months, so it def saves the trouble but... Man I really wanted a pumpkin beer this fall. Not to mention were moving homes next week and starting renovation on an old 1885 house. In the meantime, living with my mil is starting to sound like a nightmare. Did I mention no pumpkin beer??