December 2009 Weddings
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BOTB! Why?!
What the heck s wrong with me? I am obsessed with babies right now! I know it's completely crazy for me to want to have a kid (I don't graduate till August, don't have a job, and I'm in my early twenties), yet I find myself curiously clicking the "baby" link on target's website, looking at baby name websites, etc, etc. DH would totally freak if he even knew that. We are currently planning to wait 3-5 years before TTC, but now that seems so looong.
Am I insane, or is anyone else's biological clock ticking against their will?
Re: BOTB! Why?!
ME! Of course, we talked soon after getting engaged about the fact if we were going to have children we I wanted to do it pretty soon after we get married because i'm...well...OLD. Being a teacher, there are only 2-3 months out of the year where it's reasonable for us to concieve, so our plan is to shoot for this August or September. If we fail, then we'll wait another year. This will make me almost 35 by the time I have the baby.
Depending on your finances, maybe it would be a good time. If you graduate and don't have a job yet, could you hold off on work for a while and have a baby or is it necessary you go right to work? I know personally, when I graduated, I HAD to go straight to work if we wanted to continue to eat.
I do not have BOTB.
I love babies and children, but I enjoy my life the way it is right now. DH and I want to be married at least a year before we start 'trying'
We're all set for now.
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Whatever, y'all. I work for the church. I'll just put in a phone call to my good buddy
JC to strike your asses down. -Bay
Yeah even if DH was wanting to have kids right away I'd still want to wait at least a year. DH would rather wait like 5 years. Even then I don't know if he'd be really enthusiastic about TTC. I think he has just had bad experiences with misbehaved kids.
It's not that I'm not satisfied with life right now, I'm just curious as to why all the sudden I'm thinking about babies when I have never had any inclination to before.
I've been thinking about babies a lot recently too. NO idea why, because like you, a baby right now would be a bad idea...but it doesn't stop me from wanting one?
DH wants kids now, but we both would like a year(and some time together) before that happens. Oy. We'll see.
I actually made a comment to my mom about you ladies and some other friends of mine who just got married and have been having baby fever. She said it was very natural because it just feels like it's the next big step. That sounded reasonable to me.
For me, I definitely do not want an actual baby right now, but for some reason I like the idea of being pregnant (I know that's crazy because pregnancy is not exactly easy). We're learning about female reproduction and growth of the baby in school right now, so maybe that has something to do with it. But it just seems like the whole idea of having this life growing inside of you and the way it must make you and your husband completely in awe of the whole process and each other (like, wow, we just made something pretty cool!) seems so amazing. I know it will be an awesome experience when it does happen, but right now is just not a good time for us to actually bring a baby into our world. Right now we want to wait another 5-6 years until I'm done with residency and he has a stable job going.
I will say though that I have been thinking of names, haha. Any of you doing that too? I've discovered that I'm not good at coming up with middle names to go with the first names. I guess I have a while to figure that out though.
We've talked about baby names for a long time.
Girl: Caroline Kelly _____
Boy: Nathan Walker ______
In DH's family, the men have W middle names, and Walker was the only one that's not been used that I didn't detest.
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Whatever, y'all. I work for the church. I'll just put in a phone call to my good buddy
JC to strike your asses down. -Bay
I have always found names, their origins, and meanings interesting. Even when I was a little kid I would look through baby name books to see what different names meant.
Don't have any names picked for future progeny, but do I frequent the site nameberry.com