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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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You put that so well!
My husband and I are both 25. We got married November 19, 2011, so we're coming up on 1 year. Both of us want kids, but we don't want kids right now. And we don't really have a plan. We're thinking 3-5 years, but we're not really planning it. We will know when we're ready. We just want to have some time to ourselves, do some of the things that we can't do with kids. We're fortunate that both of our parents are very supportive of this and don't push us. My parents honestly never bring it up, and his parents bring it up, but extremely rarely. Both of our parents got pregnant with us a little earlier than planning, and so therefore understand why we would want to wait.
I think the thing that frustrates me is that a lot of times the people who comment the most about when we're going to have kids are folks that really are not close to us. It's coworkers, friends of friends, etc. People who literally have no say in this at all.
I am 31 and my husband is 36. We got married nearly 3 months ago on June 23rd, which was the 7th anniversary of our first date.
I am in college right now but should be able to graduate in the Spring. I would like to earn my degree and acquire a postion in my desired field (and work for about a yr) before trying for a baby.
By then, my husband and I would have a better household income and I could take off for maternity leave and have a job to go back to.
There is a great daycare two mail boxes down from our house.
Kids make us a little nervous because it is alot of responsibility not to mention expense and less independence & couple time. But, I think we may give it a try in about 2 years.