How did you know you were ready to have a baby?

Question

Hey all! My husband and I have been talking about getting pregnant for the 1st time. He says he is ready whenever I am, but Im not sure I quite am. For those who planned their 1st pregnancies, when did you know you were ready? Was there a specific moment in time? A feeling? Anything? Id love to know/hear your story. Anything helps.

Answer

We got married in December of 2020 and had decided to spend the first year getting to know each other and settling into figuring out our lives first. At that point I was hoping to get into medical school and he was teaching but interested in moving into IT. So during that year, he phased into IT and I got into a MBA program instead, we then started looking for a house and wanted our first child to be born after we moved into our first home. It worked out really well, we just celebrated our 3 year anniversary, baby is 11 months old and we’ve been living in our home for 1 year now. I also graduated two weeks ago, so I’m going to start working again before we consider trying for baby number 2 😊.

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Our first wasn’t planned, but our second was…for the most part lol. Some of it was missing the small baby phase as we watched our son grow up, but for the most part we were just talking about “when we have another baby ___” and decided that we wanted to sit down and figure out when it would work best to start trying. I was about to start my final semester of college at the time and my husband wanted to start having unprotected sex(🙄😂) so we agreed that we would really start trying after I graduated in May but we would stop with the precautions and see what would happen. We talked about that in December and I found out I was pregnant early February. She’s about to turn 15 months old in a few weeks🥰 Just tonight we were talking about what year/month we want to try and conceive our third, lol.

Answer

When my husband and I first met we were (and still are) on the same page about things we want in life. This included a time frame for when we would see ourselves individually and as a couple wanting to start a family. 
I always knew I wanted to have a family, as did he. But there was afew things we wanted to do first - get married, go on a few overseas holidays, etc. basically the things that are easier to do without a child. We wanted to enjoy our time together first. 
We got married last year in August and went on our honeymoon this year in September, and decided when we got married that we would start trying on the honeymoon. We got lucky first try and I’m almost 18 weeks! 
I don’t think there is an exact “perfect” time, but we didn’t want to just rush into it for the sake of it and wanted to be in the best possible position to raise a child. They don’t ask to be born and we would hate to not be able to provide to the fullest.

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I finished m career. Got married. I just didn’t want to not have a way to provide for my kids if I was ever a single parent. Just wanted my own to fall back on if I ever had to go that route.

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