I want....

trawas01

a baby.

Ugh.

Another graduate student in my lab, his wife had a baby two months ago. He brought him in to show him off today. I waaaannnttt one.

I can't have one yet. I can't have one yet. I can't have one yet.

minionlover

 iwould love to have kids now too.  I am getting older and I feel that I its getting to be time to start trying.  We aren't going to start trying until about a year after we get married though

lv2011

I know the feeling I'm 31 and the clock is tick-tocking away. Damned hormones.

trawas01

I'm only 25, so I have some time and we said all along we'd wait for about a year after getting married but there are days when I think we'll be starting sooner rather then later....

minionlover

Right there with you guys.  I am going to be 33 when we get married...

achiduck

I actually felt that way when I was around 24. Now that I'm 27 babies are the furthest thing from my mind. FI and I aren't even sure we want to have kids. 33 is the age we've set as our turning point - if we're still unsure by then we will probably just say no.

fishinflagrl

Definitely not wanting them at all right now. No stinkin' way, im terrified! lol I am 24 though, and we are waiting until im about 28-29 to think about it again.

jonesma204

I go back and forth; FI is 33 and I am 26. Sometimes I wanna start trying right after the wedding and other days I want to wait a couple more years...

aimee58

By the time the wedding rolls around I'll be 27 and FI will be 29. We both want babies badly, but our logical sides kick in. We're going to be in saving mode after the wedding so we have a little nest egg before we start trying. I can't wait. I was never in baby mode until I met FI.

DanaOcNy

I definitely have baby fever and have for the last few years.  Medically I need to wait two years from my surgery to start planning a family and my FI and I have decided to wait til our 1 yr anniversary to start anyway. 

pzavecz

Haha.  I'm like the opposite.  Everytime someone shows off their baby or tries to tell me stories about their kids, I'm just like.."Wow, I'm sure glad I don't have kids."  It doesn't sound at all appealing to me right now.  Maybe in a few years...

PattySmith101

we want kids right after the wedding ... i have always been a kid person and cant wait to start having babies! must wait till after wedding... must wait... dress will not fit if you get pregnant now! lol

pockysquirrel

Baby fever! I hear you there! I usually feel like I can stand to wait, but every once in awhile I'll be exposed to some adorable kids doing adorable kid things, and I'll get a moment of "Aww...want." FI and I are waiting; we don't want to launch into TTC right after the wedding and we want to get a house first. Then again, I want to at least be trying by the time I'm 30, and I'm turning 28 this year, so...

achiduck

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_i-want?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:2c3b68fc-3757-4c5b-b015-0b1a77588193Post:c98e7ab3-90ea-4e7e-aa2a-1c3332e51e89">Re: I want....</a>:
[QUOTE]Haha.  I'm like the opposite.  Everytime someone shows off their baby or tries to tell me stories about their kids, I'm just like.."Wow, I'm sure glad I don't have kids."  It doesn't sound at all appealing to me right now.  Maybe in a few years...
Posted by pzavecz[/QUOTE]

haha.. every time I hear a baby screaming in a restaurant I'm less and less inclined ot have one.

julzy

Ahh, I have such baby fever too but I think it would be best for us to wait a good year after the wedding.  It's certainly on my mind though as well!

BrittneyRN

I can't even imagine having a baby right now! I'm 26 and will probably consider having one once I turn 30. We will definitely have a kid though, but probably just one.

reagane02

This was actually a huge issue with my FI and I when we started getting really serious. I didn't ever want to have kids, and wanted to have a lot of them eventually. For the longest time we didnt' really talk about it to keep from starting a fight. It wasn't until this last year that I started thinking that I might actually want to have kids. Now I've decided I do want 1 or 2 but I still want to wait.

mrshall1027

Kids are hard work!  FI has two daughters, one is almost 3 and the other is almost 6.  We have them 50% of the time with one week on, one week off.  I love them to death and treat them like my own, but it has really opened my eyes about when I want to have some of my own.  I'm 27, about to be 28, and I swore up and down when I was younger that I would have 2 kids at this age.  But now, I can't imaging being ready until at least 2 to 3 years from now.

lepoissonrouge

I think I go back and forth on this a lot. I know I want children, but having any anytime soon would be silly and not a good idea. We think five years is when we'll start seriously thinking about it, but at the same time we both feel like as soon as we get settled we might think about it a little more seriously. I graduate next year, will be getting a job, and then we want to buy a house at some point. Soooo, we shall see. My mom is all about us having a baby very very soon. I never thought she'd be the baby crazy grandparent but apparently she is, lol.

pzavecz

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_i-want?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:2c3b68fc-3757-4c5b-b015-0b1a77588193Post:357f2c99-1217-4f28-8e74-96bbe160169d">Re: I want....</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I want.... : haha.. every time I hear a baby screaming in a restaurant I'm less and less inclined ot have one.
Posted by achiduck[/QUOTE]

<div>OMG ME TOO!  And the ones that run around like little hellions in the store...ugh...</div><div>
</div><div>I will admit that there have been times where I think I want one.  Like when I held my newborn niece for the first time and she slept quietly in my arms :) ... but then she proceeded to poop shortly thereafter and started crying and then I handed her off to her mom (my sister).  I immediately was reminded why I didn't want one for awhile...Haha.</div>

AllieHysh19

Baby fever is the worst!  I'm 25, FI is 30.... I have been in baby fever for about a year or so now, and everytime we are around all of these people having babies, it makes it so much worse.  To add to that, my FI really wants kids soon too!  Must continue to remind myself that we must wait, must wait, must wait!!!!!

pockysquirrel

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_october-2012-weddings_i-want?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:56b9bcef-1e34-456e-81f5-cfaa107456b2Discussion:2c3b68fc-3757-4c5b-b015-0b1a77588193Post:38053f05-4451-4922-a117-8d18aa02b806">Re: I want....</a>:
[QUOTE]My mom is all about us having a baby very very soon. I never thought she'd be the baby crazy grandparent but apparently she is, lol.
Posted by lepoissonrouge[/QUOTE]

Oh my god, THIS. My mom is already trying to figure out what she wants her future grandkids to call her! Plus my godmother and two of my aunts don't have children and have always kind of vicariously parented my sister and I. They are chomping at the bit to start being surrogate grandparents. I'm doomed, LOL. But hey, at least I'll never have to struggle to find a babysitter!

trawas01

Nice to know I'm not the only one out there...

And I also have moments of, kids? now? no.

But it seems the wanting moments are begining to drastically outweight the not wanting. Sigh, doesn't help that Fi would have had one yesterday if we could

aimee58

Oh my goodness!! Here too! My mom and FMIL are already busy planning a baby shower and baby clothes i think! I joked the other day that I never want kids and I thought they were both going to cry!

Creyo

I'm torn. I want to have kids, fi wants them in a few years. He would be okay not having them, but he knows I want them. However, whenever kids are in the room being all kid-y I have no idea how to handle them. I've never had kid instincts and I have a hard time dealing with the crying. I am short tempered with my dog when she wakes me up at night. Right now leaning towards no kids even though I want them really badly. 

ReyesToy

Fiance and I want kids! I'll be 27 and he'll be turning 30 a month after our wedding. 2 of his co-workers just had babies and they actually had "bring your kids to work day"...it's funny because it was like 5 male engineers playing with babies and kids under 4 years old.

Between my work (which is primarily women) and friends, I would've gone to 5 baby showers this year!

After we get married, we're not going to be "trying"...we're just not going to be cautious.

kallen1002

I am the same way. A couple years ago we decided that by the time we were 30 I would hopefully be pregnant. Ill be 29 when we get married soo hopefully soon after that we will be pregnant. We've gotten the parting out of our systems and all of our friends are in the same boat as us.. engaged and getting married soon ready to settle down. Now is the perfect time for us to start a family.

jeffsgirl100612

My FI and I go back and forth about this all the time.. I am 37 and he is 40, he has a 12 year old daughter and would really love a son, I really want a baby but we would have to adopt due to my PCOS I cant have a baby without a ton of medical intervention. We can't really afford a kid right now but I have baby fever so bad but he wont let me even talk about it anymore.. basically he told me I could have a puppy... yay.    :-(

Happy Bun

Meh...I don't think we'll have any.  I'm 30 and FI is 36 and we really REALLY want to retire no later than 55.  That won't happen if we have children.

We've decided that we'll give it until he's 40 to finally decide, if we don't have any by then, we won't have any at all.  The older I get the more I'm okay with that.  I'm content being a rescue mom :-)

ktelizabeth86

Baby fever got really bad for me when my younger sister got pregnant. I always thought I would be first. My niece (who I absolutely adore) is almost a year old now and I just found out my sister is pregnant AGAIN . . . It's like "Okay, my turn".

We live in a one bedroom apartment right now. So we definitely would have to move first. I think once we're married we will be a little less cautious - so if it happens, it happens, but probably won't actually "try" for about a year.

I'm going to a baby shower this Saturday for my cousins fiancee too.

futuremrsjdmartin

I'm right there with ya. I have one child but Fi really wants children off his own and I want to make his babies! We're waiting till the wedding and then its baby making time! Just hard to wait till then.