Baby Fever

drama1308

In honor of me meeting my friend's new baby on Friday (she was born last Tuesday but I was recovering from surgery and couldn't meet her yet). I was curious when you and your FI/DH were planning to start trying for babies.

drama1308

I'm 21 right now, so we are planning on trying for a baby in a few years. I still have 3 semesters left of school and need to finish them up before we start bringing along babies.

Purple&7

We're still pretty young so after we get married in June 2012 we'll probably wait about two years after that to start trying. I'm thinking about getting my masters so I would like to be done with that before having kids. But, honestly it's all in God's hands.

LeahVB2011

We want wait until I'm finished with school and save up in the mean time for when a child comes along. I'm 20 now and would like to start trying when I'm 24 provided I have my BA.

mmhepb

Never.  I have a 15 & 11 year old daughters.  FI has no biological kids, but we aren't looking to have any children together.  Was discussed at the beginning and middle of our dating life and again just this past weekend to make sure we were still on the same page. 

SoonToBeGenao

My goal (hope/prayer) is to buy a house before we accept our beautiful blessing of a child

If we are financially blessed that will happen sooner than later- we are trying to save like crazy.

Special2011

We're also pretty young- 22 and 23. He's (hopefully!) going to grad school when he meets the requirements (probably 2 years). I've always wanted to have at least a year before we had a baby, but I also want to be a young mother. We'll probably wait at least a year, if not a little more. It would be nice if he could finish school before, but I don't want to wait 5 years!

Baby fever is a typical state for me. Everytime we pass an infant in a store or restuarant, I have to point out how precious he or she is! So much so that my fiance' has accused me of being a baby stalker...

kellya01

We're thinking in about 3 to 4 years.  We're both 27 and getting married for the first (and only) time, and we want to get settled in, be more financially stable, before that little bundle of blessing comes along.  

adrinkard

We are 27 & 26, have a house and are pretty financial stable but we want to wait a year or so.  We'd like to be able to enjoy being married for awhile before we have to share each other with a baby.

FaithCaitlin

I'm 20 and FI turns 22 tomorrow. When we get married we'll be 21 and 23 respectively. We plan to have two children before I'm 28.  

Clearly, that's subject to change based on our financial stability and fertility (praying there won't be any issues!). 

I always have baby fever but I also always have Husband fever! We definitely want to enjoy each other for a nice few years before we enjoy babies!

twixinthemix

We are both 26 (I'm soon to be 27 though) and we plan on having babies after we do grad school, so in about 3 years.  I'm kind of itching to want to start trying a little bit earlier because I may have some fertility issues (that NFP/Creighton Model is helping with!) and I would like to have my first kid before I'm 30 or at least be pregnant by then!

sprtychick10

I will be 27 and FI will be 26 when we get married. We want to enjoy being married a couple years before we start having a family. 

GJones27

We're both 26.  I'd like to wait until we're 30 or 31.  I have to get through law school, and then I'd like to adjust to a new job.  

Btw, I like the title baby fever.  I notice that with each passing year, babies get cuter and cuter.

StacyJenniges

I'm going to be 30 in a month and half so we are going to start trying for kids about a year after we are married.  I would love to try right away but we do not live together, or stay at eachothers houses so we do need to get use to living with eachother and being with eachother all the time, before we indroduce children into the mixture.

AshNoel8

FI and I are both 26. If it were up to me, I would want to start trying on our honeymoon haha, but FI wants to wait a year at least before we start trying (I had said no more than a year, he said at least a year... so maybe exactly a year haha). Ultimately, it is all in God's hands, though. I love kids and I want 4, but FI only wants 2. We'll see what happens! 

joyfulbride424

FI and I will both be 25 when we get married, and niether of us have had baby fever yet AT ALL. I want kids, but definitely not now. Though if we had an oops, it would be a blessing and I'm sure we would be happy.

mrandmrsbrist

I said this before...FI is young and I'm even younger We'll wait until we finish school (only one more year for me without grad school, two for him), if we decide to have kids at all. With all my health problems, a pregnancy would be very rough, not to mention issues I might pass along to a child. We'll see, though. It's one of those "cross that bridge when we get there" type of things.

agape1cor813

I know my fiance and I don't want to have kids for 3-5 years. We're still relatively young (24 and 26) and I may try to go back to school for another degree at some point, and I think we just want to enjoy being married for a while before trying for kids.

sessionswedding

I am 23 and FI will turn 23 5 days before the wedding.  FI still has a year of college left, and we woud like to start building our house before we have kids.  Besides that, I want kids but not soon and FI only wants 1 child if any (I kinda want 2).  Add to that the fact that I may have trouble getting pregnant and need expensive fertility treatments, and we are not looking to try anytime even remotely soon.  We're talking about me being around 30 when we have our first, so it will be 6 or 7 years before we even start trying.

kitkat610

Doctors have told us that after the treatments, FI is not able  to have kids. We both accept that as God's plan for us. We will talk about adoption after I finish law school and reevaluate FI's health. With his limitations ex/ necessity of sleep I dont know if a baby will ever make sense for us.

katiedidthat

We will be 23 and 24 when we get married(me 24) and we're hoping to have a big family, so we'll most likely be starting right after the wedding.  FI will have been working for almost a full year, and I'll be finishing up school within a year of the wedding, so we decided its as good a time as any.  We won't be actively "trying" per say(no charting etc), but we won't be using any sort of birth control. 

rachelea

FI is financially stable, bought a house a year ago, is well established in his job, and is 28. I have some school debt as well as some medical debt from a few years ago that we'll get taken care of after the wedding hoopla is done, will hopefully be teaching full time next year (just talked to a school today...!), and just turned 26. We're entirely ready in the sense of life stages, but we want to enjoy being married for a bit (also why we didn't get the puppy a few months ago...) before baby comes along. I'm on the pill so that is our method of birth control, by 2 year anniversary I will stop taking it. I am extreme baby fever, but I'm hoping I get even more extreme "husband fever" after the wedding and can qualm the former for a bit! All my coworkers think I'll get knocked up even with birth control and said if God wants me to have a baby, I will have a baby!

Ccsvball05

My H and I just got married on April 2nd. I am so in baby fever but don't graduate until December. My H would have had a honeymoon baby if he could have. Hopefully we will be trying at the end of this year or first of next year. I am soooo excited to have a baby!

Habs2Hart

We'll both be 27 this summer after we marry, but we'll be just enjoying marriage for a few years.  Idealy, I'd like to have my first in the 29/30 age group. 

amongthelilies25

i have baby fever! haha. my friend had a baby in march and i was there at her home/water birth! wow! what an experience. In our pre-marital counseling we found out that i want a baby 1-2 years and my FI wants 2-4 years. hehe. i say we will start trying in 2 years... but my FI wants to wait 4 years. we will see. He goes back and forth. At least 2 years tho.... we want to enjoy just being married and just the two of us. hehe. 

yodacub

FI and I have talked and seem to be settled on trying 2 years after we're married, which would put me at 28 and him at 27.  However, knowing FI he will be ready sooner (he said this weekend as I held my cousin's baby that he couldn't wait for that to be "for real"), and I definately want to wait at least the 2 years maybe more since I'm finishing up my PhD and will be starting a new job shortly after the wedding.  We will see what God's plans for us are.

azdancer8

I'm 29 and DH is 25. We're really torn on when to have kids and both have MAJOR baby fever.
We want to have a big family, so we'd like to start soon, since I'm a bit older. But we also haven't had that long together as a couple, and want to have time as just the two of us. Realistically, we'll probably start trying in about a year or so, when we have a bit more money saved up and are starting to build our house.

DramaGeek

I must be broken.  I am 30 and have never had one inkling of baby fever.  We've been married for 8.5 years and have no desire to have children.  When we were younger everyone said, "you'll change your mind!" Now that we're 30, I think people have realized we definitely don't plan to have kids.  We plan to take permanent steps to remain childfree by choice this year or next.

sessionswedding

You're not broken, lol.  Just different.