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Baby Pressure after 1 year anniversary?
My hubby and I recently hit one year. It seems since then the pressure for us to start a family is mounting from both friends and family. We do not have any plans to start a family for another year or two. Are we 'outside of the norm'?
We are at the age where weddings are occuring like crazy (we have been to 6 already since May and have 3 more before the year's end...) 4 of those couples have ALREADY announced that they are preggers and two of the others have announced that they are TTC! They have all been married less than a year! I cannot imagine having a baby during that first year of marriage...
Where are the rest of you when it comes to starting your families?
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Re: Baby Pressure after 1 year anniversary?
well, we were originally planning to start TTC after our anniversary last month....but apparently something else was in store for us! LOL
The nice part about where we are though is that we DID get to have our first year of marriage be just us, and now at a year and a half we'll have our little one arrive....not totally what we were planning, but we're happy with how it's all working
You're not alone, we like our family how it is -- just the two of us! We may want to have a larger family sometime in the future, but not right now! We enjoy our neices and nephews but we like to give them back
We've got no intentions in anytime in the near future to increase the size of our human family (maybe our furry family but thats it!). My family is fine with that, but my husbands family and some of our friends hound us all the time to have kids. It's very aggravating. To the point where we try not to see some people because that is all they can talk about.
There's plenty of people on this board that are ready to have babies now, some who have already had them, and many who are nowhere near ready. We are all different and we can embrace that
So...long story short, nobody is weird.
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I've been wanting a baby for a while, but DH was insisting that we wait to TTC until after I graduate. Well things changed and we've been TTC since May. DH already has 3 kids from a previous relationship (ages 7,6 &5), but I miss having a baby in the family and he does too now! We're hoping that we get our BFP soon but who knows. We could hit our 2 year anniversary before having a baby or even before I get pregnant.
If you and your DH aren't ready or you're comfortable with where you are then don't worry about what anyone else says!
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I think it's to each there own!
I have two friends (from high school) that are married. One got married because she was preggers. One got married and had kids two years later and it was their choice.
Granted they got married at 18 and 17......
We got married at 23, have been married for a year and we are SO not ready. We would love a family but we are not financially stable enough yet to make that decision.
So for those of you who were ready, props to you!
For those of you getting pressured...it's your life! Your whole life will change once you have kids and it's up to the two of you to decide regardless of what the rest of the world thinks!
Luckily, nobody is really pressuring us to have kids yet. Our families know that we'll have kids when we're ready to no matter what they want to happen. DH and I both would like to have a baby now, but know that that wouldn't be the smartest decision and have decided that it's best for us to TTC next year and go from there.
Don't let anyone pressure you do to something that you're not ready to do, especially have babies! Tell your family and friends that you'll have little ones when the time if right for you and your DH and that you'll let them know when that time comes, but until then, you just want to enjoy each other and doing things together.