https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:18:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719492 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:30:44 +0000 Happygal 719492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, two years is a big one! That's so tough, because you don't want to pressure him, yet you're ready to go. Waiting one more year seems reasonable to me.....you could hopefully get pregnant around the time he would be graduating.</p> <p>We have been pretty much on the same TTC page from the beginning, and wanting to start a family was the main motivator to get married! There have been a few times I thought we should pause b/c of life stuff, like new jobs, etc. But he wanted to keep on trying, so I just rolled with it. </p> <p>One thing to consider is that it might take awhile to get pregnant in the first place. Or you might get pregnant right away! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719370 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:05:27 +0000 Chillybear 719370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got married in August 2010 and w knew we'd want to married a bit before kids. In Nov 2010 my best friend got engaged and asked me to be her Moh and my hubs to be a groomsman, her wedding was planned for Oct 2012. We said ok well we're not going to be ready to have a baby before the wedding and i didnt want to be pregnant for the wedding. so TTC was planned for after their wedding. </p> <p>I'm on a few potent medications to control psoriasis one of them i had to stop taking 6 months before ttc so March 2012 we discussed kids and TTC and the plan was still a go. I stopped taking Med #1 that month. In August 2012 I had a visit scheduled with my derm and told her my plans and she had me come off med #2. Later that week Hubs was laid off from his job, so TTC was tabled. Luckily he got a job offer in late October and started in November. He wanted to be more settled in his job before TTC but we both knew that with winter coming it was only a matter of time before my skin got worse with out the meds so Nov was our first cycle TTC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719309 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:41:07 +0000 nana87 719309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had baby fever way before, but we waited until dh was ready, and then actually almost a year after that because we realized the timing would make sense for us to wait with my career. as impatient as I was, I really didn't want to start trying until he was getting impatient too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719233 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:24:27 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 719233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: yeah I agree in that I don't want to push him if he isn't ready!</p> <p>I am off the pill (got horrible head aches on it!) so I am good there, and I don't chart or anything, but pay attention to CM so I have a pretty good idea of when I ovulate. I also use an app to track cycle length. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719225 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:22:50 +0000 illumina 719225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I have been married for 11mths and together for 6yrs. We started ttc in December last year. DH was ready for a couple of years beforehand and I initially wanted to wait another year or so. Being married was a definite for me, then I started to think "what am I waiting for?" I guess I figured I'd compromise too as until you start you have no idea how long it could take. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719218 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:20:46 +0000 Foodnerd81 719218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had slightly different timelines. We agreed before we got married that we would wait about 2 years, based on our age, finances, emotional readiness, etc. We had been together for about 7 years before we got married. After a year and change, I was ready to start trying, but DH stuck with the agreed 2 years timeline, and ultimately, I think it's really important that both partners be totally on board. So we went with the later one (which, to be perfectly fair, I agreed to!) and started trying a month or so before our 2 year anniversary. LO will be born less than 3 months before our 3rd anniversary. </p> <p>One thing that helped me while we were waiting was doing what I could to prepare my body-- I went off the pill a few months before, starting tracking ovulation, taking my prenatals... I felt like at least I was doing *something*. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719214 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:20:28 +0000 pui 719214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I told my DH wayyyy before we were married that I wanted to try and have at least my first 2 children before I am 30 (I am 26). I repeated this many times throughout our relationship and he agreed.</p> <p>Well, he somehow thought that meant we'd start trying when we were 28, because he figured it would somehow only take 2 years to have 2 kids!! When I told him we should get started, he was against it.</p> <p>I just explained to him how his timeline made no sense and so he finally agreed we need to get started. I think he would still wait it if were completely up to him, but since I've told him my timeline all along, he's caved.</p> <p>In my mind, I am already compromising because I would have started trying a year ago when we got married lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719212 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:20:03 +0000 babycanuck 719212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was always indifferent, but wanted kids by 25.. We weren't married at the time and he wasn't even close. Last year we spoke about it (2 years into marriage) and he agreed to try "next year" (2013). At the beginning of this year I chatted with him about it and he felt we still weren't ready - financially and otherwise. I told him you're never truly "ready" and he needed to make up his mind or I actually wasn't going to have any kids (my own choice of not wanting to have kids later on - everyone wants different things!) and he finally decided let's do it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ttc-timeline-differences-what-did-you-do#post-719203 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:16:26 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 719203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi all :)</p> <p>DH and I have been together for about 9.5 years and married for 8 months. I am ready to TTC right away. DH wants to wait 2 more years. He is in a tough program at work that starts this fall and wants to be done with that before we have kids.</p> <p>Did you and your SO have differing timeline plans for TTC? Did you meet in the middle? </p>