How long after the wedding to have children?

Hope this isn't TMI, but my plan because I am on the Depo shot is to get my last shot in April of 2016 on my regular schedule and when is has worn off which will be July of 2016 just wait. I really don't know how long it will take to start my cycle again because it's been so long. I don't think after we are married I will be super concerned on preventing pregnancy but I don't plan to start actually trying aka doing all the charting and paying really close attention until after the one year mark.

I plan on waiting 2-3 years at minimum haha. Then again, I may feel differently after I get married. I do know that I want to enjoy being married first because children will only add stress to a marriage.

We're going to actively try starting in the late summer, so it'll be a little after a year for us.

It'll probably be 3-4 years. We're not really young anymore, either, but we live in the city, and definitely don't want to raise a kid here, so we're hoping to buy a house first. We're still not totally decided on having kids, anyway, and aren't opposed to adopting if we end up "waiting too long", so waiting just makes sense.

We are currently DINKS and love it We have been together for over 4 years, and this March will have owned our home for 2 years. We've agreed we will wait a year and then begin to TALK about it. At that point, I'll be 28 and he'll be 30. I really want to finish my master's first and I feel like you can never really be "ready" but I don't want to be too old when we start having our kids!

I plan at least three years, we are still young and want to do some more things. I may feel differently once we are married, but I would like to experience marriage for a bit before rushing into an 18 year commitment lol.

We say we're going to wait for 7 years when we are both 30 to talk about it, but right now we're happy with our fur baby and trying to get situated in our careers.

I am also on depo and I am going to take my last shot in June. We are getting married in sept and time will tell how long it takes but we won't be preventing it. I will be 31 and FH will be 37 so we don't want to wait to long.

We'd love one now, but we have things we want to do first such as finish off paying a student loan and purchase a house. We're waiting 2-3 years before trying. We've been together six years and I'll be about 32/33 when we start.

We are necessarily trying, but we are definitely not preventing

I was thinking around 30 (2 years), but FH mentioned about trying for a hm baby. Within the last year I finally hit the "OMG CAN I HOLD YOUR BABY" wall. It's so weird because I always said I didn't want kids. Now I can't keep my paws off them. Just let me hold them!

I'm not sure when the magic time will be. I'll be 35 when we get married so I really don't have any waiting time unfortunately. I feel that a lot of things are dependant on what happens with my career in the next month or two. I put in for a job position. If I get it work will pay for our move to another city where we can actually afford a house (crossing our fingers as they are still about $500,000) and I will be in a supervisor position. I worry that if I disappear on maternity leave that I will never move up the ladder and I don't think that I could handle the physicality of the job I'm in and being pregnant.

We were married on October 3rd and just started trying at the beginning of December. We are both situated and set to buy our house this year, we can't wait to have kids.

Fingers crossed and lots of baby dust!

I'm thinking 2019 or 2020, so 6-7 years of marriage. I'll graduate from law school in 2017, and then hopefully we'll be able to pay down our student loans and buy a house. We're trying to figure out a balance between waiting to get careers well established and not waiting too long because of health issues.

We will likely start trying next year, which will be about 1.5 years after our wedding. We are hoping to purchase a house this year but won't start really actively looking until late May (once I am back in town again). Although we have only been married a few months, we have lived together for about 5.5 years now, so we are at the stage where we feel ready. I'm 27 and my husband is 30, so we will be 28 and 31 when we start trying.

I hear ya SamanthaG...I am sorta loving my brief stink as a DINK...but we have started not preventing a kiddo...but not exactly trying yet either. Sorta enjoying life post wedding with less on my plate.

We want to wait a year after the wedding. However, if it happens before that we will be overjoyed. And if it does happen it will be because my monthly hell happened over the honeymoon!

My BFF is experiencing fertility issues and it scares me. I don't want to wait too long to try.

Like others, our is not really a "how long" but a "what needs to be done first" kind of question. I think FH would be a father now if he could! It's so cute how excited he is about the prospect of parenting. However, we both decided that we would like to have a few things done first: FH needs to finish grad school, I need to stabilize my career (I just graduated with my Masters earlier this year), and we would like to buy a house. And, just because it will be more difficult with children, we'd also like to travel just a wee bit more.

DH will be married for just over a year when we pull the goalie. I want to be in a house and pay off our loans before we make a baby

We get married in April 2015, my BC doesnt come out until June 2016, we had originally planned to just not go back on BC then, however I will be 29, but he will only be 24. So we started talking about it again, & We may just wait another BC cycle which is 3 years, since I got to enjoy my early 20's child-free. we just decided to wait it out & see,but I think we are aiming for 30-33, putting him a bit older & we can save some more $$$