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I was 28 weeks pregnant on our wedding day! I sort of wish we'd waited longer, but if we had we wouldn't have had our daughter. We just celebrated our 2nd anniversary, and I'm 33 weeks pregnant with our second daughter. It's stressful, but whatever, we're planning on being done with kids before I'm 30.
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DD1 was born two and a half weeks before our first anniversary. The timing was right for us as we'd both travelled loads, especially whilst having a long distance relationship between Australia and the US, and we were ready to settle down. I was also 32 at the time and wasn't sure how long it would take for us to conceive. Had I known we'd get lucky the first time, we might have waited a few more months!
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WHen LO is born we will have been married for 3.5 years, and together for almost 7.5 years.
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We started TTC one month after getting married. Were pregnant by our first anniversary and had a baby on our second!
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Almost exactly 1 year. LO was born at the exact right time.
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We started TTC a month before our 3rd anniversary (10 years together). We have been married now for 5.5 years and I'm not pregnant yet. I used to wish that we had started TTC sooner, given our issues, but our financial situation is so much better now than it was a couple years ago, so once we finally do become parents, I'll be able to SAH if I decide to, which I didn't think was a possibility before. We also were able to go on lots more big vacations and do some big renovations that I know we wouldn't have been able to do with a LO. Looking for silver linings here
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@Shutterbug:
We started TTC just after we got married because my SO was already in his 30's and wanted kids sooner than later. We had pretty significant IF issues and needed IVF. We will have been married for 3.5 years when our LO is born. Our silver lining is similar in that if we had gotten pregnant sooner we would not have been in the same place career wise or financially. We also have been able to travel more and spoil my nieces and nephews in the interim
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@Shutterbug: Yup, we have been able to travel, too. Our financial situation is much better now than in the past. I'm the breadwinner so I doubt I'll be able to SAH but the DH can and will.
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We were married for 5.5 years before we started trying and had H a year later. In retrospect, I think it was perfect, but I had baby fever for about four years before we got pregnant.
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We had been married 2.5 years by the time LO was born. We started TTC about 8 months after we got married, but it took over a year to get pregnant.
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DS a was born 4 days shy of our first anniversary.
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LO was born right before our 3rd anniversary. At that point, we were together 8 years. Tomorrow's our 5th anniversary.
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DD was conceived 2 months after we got married. Like @Ree723: I was 32 at the time and if I had known we would strike gold on the first try I might have waited a little longer. Happy with it all though.
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We got married a year ago on the 19th after being together for a little over 8 years. Baby is due 6 days after our first anniversary
it's fine for us because we were together for so long beforehand.
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We have been married for 5 years and together for 7, and Baby Girl is due this week!
We're very happy with the timing, but had it not been for our ages (35 and 40), we might have waited longer.
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I got pregnant 8 months after our wedding. We were not TTC.
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Got married in 09, had E in 2013. We had started to TTC in 2011 but shit happened
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Married feb 2011, baby may 2014. I'd say it was fine. If we were ready otherwise I think we could've done early (but we weren't ready personally, relationship aside). But also a bit longer would've been fine. Being DINKs was a really easy life
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@Mamaof2: we started trying just before our one year anniversary, and K was born at 3.5 years married. It was great timing (but I would have rather it taken less time!)
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I found out I was pregnant a few days before our 4th anniversary, and I'm very happy with our timing. I wanted to start earlier, but looking back I realize we are in a much better place now, and I'm glad we were forced to wait.
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We got pregnant just 6 weeks after we got married, but I think the timing was great--maybe because we are older? We got married at 32. We'd both done a whole lot of traveling and living before we got married, both apart and together so that didn't really factor in for us. Age-wise and financially, it was a good time.
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i got pregnant 8 or 9 months after we were married and were not TTC. I wish we waited longer only because I wasn't done school yet and had just started working and making money.
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DD1 was born 13.5 months after our wedding.
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We started TTC after our first anniversary. We will be married for at least 5 years before we have a LO.
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We were married for just over a year when LO was born. Been together for almost a decade before getting married.
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LO is due a few months after our 3rd wedding anniversary. We started trying a couple months after our second wedding anniversary, and it took right at a year. The timing is perfect for us (even though I worried it would never happen) because we got to enjoy being married for a while beforehand.
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We started TTC around our first anniversary and LO was born just after our second anniversary. It seemed perfect to me. LO#2 will arrive a few months short of our 4th anniversary.
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Our baby is due soon after our 4th wedding anniversary. I think the timing is good. We had a lot if time to do things with friends and just as a couple.
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We were married for 2.5 years before we started trying, and DD was born around the 3.5 year mark. I would have loved to start trying sooner, but DH wanted some time to just be married which turned out to be just perfect. We were together for 5 years when we got married, but we were still really young (mid 20s) and it gave us time to find out footing as a married couple before we had a LO.
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We were married in May of 2010, got pregnant in May of 2012 (on our anniversary!), and had our girl in February of 2013. So, almost 3 years between wedding and the birth of our first child. It was the perfect amount of time for me. We didn't live with each other before marriage, so it was nice to have a little bit of time to acclimate. We have been friends forever though, so we had plenty of time for "just us."
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Married in May 2012, LO was born September 2013.
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@Mamaof2: ok then 10 months
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We started TTC 9 months into marriage and got pregnant, LO came 1 1/2 years into marriage. We thought it would take us awhile based on comments from doctor, so we pushed up TTC earlier than planned. It all worked out
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We were married 12 years before we had our first. We had been trying for around 7-8 years before she was born. Infertility sucks!
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@travellingbee: oh wow! I always thought that would be me - get preg on the honeymoon and have a baby 9 months later - then IF reared its ugly head!
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@JMOM: 12 years, here, too, but infertility was a small part of it.
I knew I wasn't very fertile since I was young, so that decreased expectations. We just weren't ready or interested until I hit my 30's.
We spent our 20's growing up together and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Sometimes I feel old and tired and regretful that birth siblings are not in the plans, but I still feel like it was the perfect choice for us. -
our 1st anniversary is in february and our 1st will be born in april. if i had known it would have happened so quickly i probably would have waited at least a year to have some time with my husband before kids.
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@Mamaof2: With our first we got pregnant right after we got home from our honeymoon. We were very surprised because I was 35. So far conceiving the second has not been nearly as easy.
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We were "old" when we got married so we started trying a year after marriage.
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@lizzywiz: I won't say that we didn't enjoy the time together without kids. We traveled a lot, lived overseas, etc. but thinking every month I could get pregnant really put a strain on things. I'm not talking about our marriage, but it just overshadowed things in general. I like what you said about spending your 20's growing up. I'm 41 but I still don't think I'm completely grown up. Maybe when I hit 50!
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