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Did anyone else feel this when you got married?
This really weird thing happened to me after I got married and I wonder if anyone else felt the same.
My biological clock started ticking really loudly. Its like I never felt like I wanted to have kids till a lot later but all of a sudden the fact that I could if I wanted to made me think about it all the time. I had "A baby story" and "Bringing home baby" dvrd so I could watch them all the time.
After a while, the reality hit me that we just got married and we still had things we wanted to do and that wasn't really what we wanted just yet but I found it funny how my body was saying one thing and my head was saying another. Is that a normal thing for newlyweds?
Re: Did anyone else feel this when you got married?
Ohhh I've sooo got the baby fever!! I think its b/c there's less panic now. You know...you're already married so its makes it "ok." There's a more solid relationship, and also its b/c its the next step. When the dust settles from the wedding its almost like ...now what??
Looking at all the adorable kids on here certainly doens't help! haha
I try to relax and remind myself, its "us" time now. Baby time later...
My hubby is the one with baby fever. I am only 24 so I didn't have that. I want "us" time. Time to go and travel and do whatever we want because we can. I do love babies though and can't wait to have some. I didn't get what you got though - I always knew I wanted a few years of being married before babies hit the picture. You know exactly my situation NewlyMrsM. It doesn't help we have Mo and LiL D running around being completely adorable!
I think a lot of people feel that because they are done with wedding planning and need something else to do. I'm in the camp of waiting and doing "us" stuff. We are way too young to be settled down yet. Plus I'm one of the weirdos (according to some) that doesn't want kids at all right now.
I would say to wait a little while. You are young and have tons of time.
I didn't get a chance for that to happen because I got pregnant on my wedding night!
But I'm sure my clock would have been ticking VERY LOUDLY if it hadn't!
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! EDD 9/6/13
I definitly know what you are talking about. All my DH's siblings have kids and I love being around them. We are waiting too. DH is two years younger than me so we agreed to wait but if he said he wanted to start trying tomorrow i'd be onboard!
We have one more big trip we want to go on so it works out!
I think it is completely normal to feel that way. I felt like that once we got engaged! I am also 32 and we have had plenty of "us" time and have traveled to many places.
I dont think it has anything to do with the "now what" thing. I see it as you just married and commited your life to the person you love and having a child together takes it one step further. It takes a special relationship to be able to go to that level, you are creating a life together.
I got married at 36. My clock was ticking BEFORE we got married... Dh's too. (Good thing... we found out we were pg 2 days before the wedding!!!)
Now I'm 38 and got "the fever" again...we're ttc #2.
Yup that happened to me!
I def. want "us" time b/c my Mom lived with us for the first 10 months of our marriage and we just made a year. So it feels like we just now got married and I don't think I'm ready to give that up actually i know im not ready to give that up but man...i LOVE kids! I've always wanted kids so it is of course in the back of my mind now but I want to travel more before we even TTC.
Totally. For me it has to do with being settled and that I already have a stepdaughter. Since we're already raising a child, it doesn't seem odd to me that we should add another child sooner rather than later. However, I just graduated and I'm trying to find a job so now is not a good time.
DH and I want to deliver in 2010 so I just have to cool it and relax until next spring. But the baby shows are killing me since I am home while trying to find a job. I try to not watch them as much as possible but the longer I am home, the more difficult it is to avoid the seemingly hundreds of baby shows on during the day.
I SO know what you mean about the baby shows! They are hard not to watch. And then you start thinking about you and your hubby having one and then your mind has to jolt you back to reality.
We both came into our marriage not planning on having children. We both think they are really cute, but aren't interesting in taking on raising any of our own. We had some friends over last weekend who brought along their 1 year old and as cute as the little boy was, we both found ourselves reassured at our decision to opt out of being parents.
Most of our friends still say we will change our minds, but my feelings are that we shouldn't have to be convinced to have them!