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I was 27 and I think that was a great age. I got to accomplish everything I wanted and we got plenty of happy hours, vacations, ect. in before she arrived.
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@chopsuey119: same! i had mine at 31 and 32 (well 3 weeks before i turned 33!)
the plan was to have them at 29 and 31, but life worked out and i wouldn't have changed anything.
and even though we were married for 5 years before having kids, there are still a million things i wish we had did before having kids!
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@Mrs. Bee: haha I had j exactly one month before I turned 33 too
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I was 29 (and 50 weeks) with J. I'll be 31 with this next one (21 months apart). I'm glad we waited and had time to grow up and be selfish together but boy would it have been nice to put this on my early twenties body!
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: lol I've always been on the fast track
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I would have liked to have a LO at 28, but it took 5 years to convince DH to get married. LOL.....
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We started trying when I was 28, but C didn't make his appearance until 30. I'm glad how it turned out, I got everything out of my system by then and am just happy to hang out with my boy!
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You know, I am pretty content with my decision to TTC after I turned 30 (LO was born right before I turned 31), but like others have said, I don't think my body was very happy. Ideally, had I been mature enough, I think 27, 28 might have been better.
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I had DD at 31 and will be 34 when LO2 comes along. I wonder if I had been younger we wouldn't have experienced secondary IF. We got married at 28 and maybe we should have TTC right away, but then we wouldn't have been able to buy our house, a duplex that allows me to SAH, so when it comes down to it I wouldn't really change a thing.
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Ideally I think I would've like to have had a baby around 26/27. I'm 30 and still no babies
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I always knew I would wait a while before having kids. I am 28 now and my goal is to be done having kids before 35. We are currently not preventing. No LO's yet.
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My goal was 30-35 window for my first and I ended up having DD at 32. I'm hoping to have another by 36/37 and then the baby factory is closed for good!
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This is kind of a hard question for me to answer. I'm currently 35 and pregnant with my first. In some ways, getting pregnant younger would've been better. Pregnancy probably would be easier physically, and there would be less of a time crunch to have #2.
But in all other ways, there was just no way it was happening any earlier. I didn't start dating my husband until 3 years ago. I didn't get financially stable until 6 years ago. And by not financially stable, I mean my rent would bounce, my power would get shut off, and I couldn't afford to buy groceries. Up until our wedding a year ago I felt like a dog was the maximum amount of responsibility I was willing to take on.
So I guess if I could've magically crunched my early 20s together and been ready and married to my husband by my late 20s, then starting around 29 or 30 would'v been good. Although DH's 6.5 years younger than me, so he would've been too young IMO to start a family then anyways.
Ultimately I guess everything fell into place and happened exactly when it needed to :).
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I had my first right before I turned 30 and that was a good age, I wouldn't have minded having them a year or two earlier but I had the travel bug. I wish I would have traveled more in college but had overprotective parents who worried about everything so it took getting a backbone to say sorry, i have my own money now and I'm going to take some trips. So I think if I had done that earlier I would have been more ready for kids a year or two earlier.
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I always thought I would start around 30, but I'm pregnant with my first now, and I'm 28! I feel like there are things I would have liked to do pre-pregnancy, but I think there are ALWAYS more things to do. This is just my next big adventure.
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I had dd at 22, turned 23 a little while later. Some things are definitely harder now. I still have a little bit to go on my masters, we don't own a house. But I just love our little family, and we will reach our goals together. I don't think I'd change it!
However, if I HAD to pick another age I think I'd say maybe 24/25. We could definitely own a house and be well into our careers by then.
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Seeing as how this pregnancy was planned I am going to say, for us, 23. It was less about age for us and more about having everything that we wanted accomplished done. We had goals that we wanted to meet before we would be ready and then we re-evaluated once we had met those goals. It is the perfect time for us.
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We are pregnant with our first and I will be 32 when we give birth. Wouldn't have changed a thing. We lived it up in the city, travelled across the world and are financially secure. If I slow things down with my career now, I also don't feel that I will have to take a significant step back which is great. Hopefully we'll have another LO before I turn 35.
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We're pregnant with # 1, due next week, and I'm 27.
LO was a bit of a surprise, as I initially had planned to wait until I was 29, before trying. I wanted to finish graduate school, and travel a bit more. However, we are thrilled, and more than happy to welcome her now.
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