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Right on time. I saw myself having my first around 30.
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Earlier. I was married at 23 and had my first at 24. I thought I would start a family in my late 20's.
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Right on schedule. I always planned on not getting married until 30 at the earliest and having kids thereafter. I got married at 31, had our first at 32, our second at 34, and will be 36 when our third (and last!) arrives. Couldn't have planned it better
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Much earlier.
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I didn't know when I wanted to start but I wanted to be done by 35. I'm 31 and have two kids. We will probably stop there but might TTC a third around when I am 34.
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Later. I thought I'd be late 20s but was 32. My career plans dictating waiting and then TTC took a while. I'm happy with how it turned out though.
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@rachiecakes: if? I thought you were firmly one and done.
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@Smurfette: I always wanted to have a child but was worried about my mothering capabilities based on my childhood/own mother. Had I known how much I'd really love being a mom I think I would have had like 5 kids!
Where we are in life job-wise, living situation, etc., puts us at one and done until further notice
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@rachiecakes: fingers crossed things change and you can have another!
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@Smurfette: we both thought we'd be great with one and done - and if that's all we have, we're still happy but man,... lol
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I didn't have a plan other than NOT to marry before 25 at least, and hoped to have a child by age 30. Blessed to be married at 26, wanted to be married for 2 years before children, then had DD at 29. Super happy with it all!
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About when I thought I would. I was 28 with DD1, and 2 weeks past my 30th with DD2. I always kind of wanted to be done around 30. Now that most of my college girlfriends still aren't married, or just now are, and don't have kiddos, I feel like I did it a little early, but I'm happy with when it happened.
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(@Greentea: I was the same about not marrying before 25. Jokingly my grandma told my sister and I we'd be disowned of we married earlier! Haha!)
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I thought I'd start in my late twenties but didn't get going until 31. To be honest I was really worried that I got married too late to have the family size I wanted. We've been really lucky and are very close to what we wanted well before I wanted to be done.
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both later and earlier! i got married way younger than i expected (26) and thought i would have kids in my 30's.
but since i married young, i also didn't think it would take us so long to have a baby (31).
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Earlier by a few Years
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A little earlier. I always knew I'd probably marry young and have kids young, but I pictured myself as being 25 or so when I had my first child.
I was 22 when DS was born. I'm coming up on 25 now though and TTC our second and probably last baby.
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Wayyyyyy earlier. Definitely wasn't planned though.
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About on time. I wanted to have our first child around 30, and I'll be turning 29 just before my due date.
@Greentea: I also did not want to get married before 25. I got married a little over a month after turning 25, though, haha.
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I don't think I gave it much thought, but knew I wanted to travel a bit and "experience life" before settling down to marriage and a family. I only met my husband at age 25, he was almost 24, and we married 3 years later. Still, we were in no hurry to have kids and spent 5 years traveling the world and diving in exotic, remote locales before TTC. We got pregnant right away, but it still meant that I was 34 when we had our first. Because of that I definitely feel the need to start trying soon for our next. I never imagined I'd be having kids this late. Maybe in the back of my mind, I thought around 30?
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A little earlier. I'm 28 now and always thought I'd wait until my early 30's before having kids because I wanted to live it up and travel as much as possible. After getting married in 2013, DH had pretty strong feelings about not waiting too long before having kids since he's a few years older than me. We decided to start TTC about a year and a half after we got married, and I'm currently 25 weeks pregnant!
I'm glad to be having my first baby before I turn 30, and am happy with the amount of traveling and experiences DH and I were able to have before getting pregnant.
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I wasn't planning on having kids at all when I was younger (though my daughter was very planned). So, I guess I had her earlier than I planned but I was actually an older mom (37)
I voted marshmallows.
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I hoped that I'd have my first child by 30 and my first was born a couple of months before I turned 30 so it was right on track.
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Right on time! I figured that 30 was good for kids, and I hoped to have a few years for just DH and I! Ended up finding DH at 23, married at 27 and I'll be 30 when our first arrives in August!
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@csross217: side note: love your Boston in your profile pic! I have 2
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I voted "right on". DH and I have been dating since I was 16, I knew we would start thinking about kids in my mid twenties, after I finished college and started a career. I had LO1 at 25.
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@mrschickpea: Bostons are the best!
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Way later.
I always thought I would be done having kids by 30. I ended up getting married to DH at 31 and DS was born when I was 32.
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