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We waited because I'm trying to time my maternity leave so I'll be out through the holidays for 2012. This is our first month TTC and I'm already regretting putting it off. If it takes us a while to get pregnant I will be so mad at myself for wasting time when we knew we were ready. Honestly... people have babies at inconvenient times ALL the time. If you're ready... maybe you should just go for it. Especially if you're emotionally and financially prepared. Those are the two biggest things.. you can make everything else work. But I'm sure lots of people will strongly disagree with me.

Ah... well in that case you're smart to wait. I was thinking you were only putting it off because of the inconvenience of moving while pregnant. I used to tell myself that obviously each month it would be a completely different baby you would be conceiving... and we were just waiting for the perfect baby for us. That's corny, I know... and more helpful if you're religious like I am and make God part of the equation... but it helped me to be patient.

I think I felt ready over a year ago, but we waited. I had this huge girls trip planned for the holidays of 2011 and I knew I didn't want to be pregnant for it or have a newborn. It was an expensive trip and I'd already put money towards it, so I just resigned myself to wait.

It was hard, and I do worry that it'll take a while to get pregnant and I've wasted so much time just waiting, but now that we're finally here in 2012 and we can start TTC, I'm soooooo excited!

How I got through it was just kind of focusing on other things. I packed 2011 with so many events, parties, get-togethers, and other things that I knew I couldn't do if I was pregnant. For example, in the spring, we went on a vacation to the Caribbean. In the summer, we went white water rafting. In the fall, we had a huge Halloween party. And then finally in the winter was my big trip. I always made sure I had something SOON to look forward to to distract myself from the not-TTCing. That was definitely helpful. And probably about two-months out from TTC-time, I just started counting down the days, and that kind of make it exciting.

Good luck to you on your wait and your big move!

I feel ya!! DH and I are now questioning if we should be TTC. He may have a change in his career that will take him away for 4 yrs and me staying where we are at now. Totally heart broken.

Yes I totally understand!! I have been waiting to try and it keeps getting pushed back. For personal reasons, I want to have surgery first and that had to get pushed back once we decided to buy an apartment in October. It's finally gone through so I can schedule the surgery which will happen in the next few days - hooray!

I'm with ya! We're waiting til April to start because I want to have a baby in the spring/summer of '13, rather than be uber-preggo in the hot summer months, but now that we have a timeline I'm like, is it April yet?!?