Planning for baby after wedding?

Fh turned 23 today (yay!) and I am 23. we plan on right after the honeymoon is over. i cant wait any longer!

We are waiting until our 2 yr anniversary, which is when my IUD comes out anyways (or the goalie, as my DS calls it ). Then we will probably take a babymoon.

Jennifer -

I had something similar happen years ago - I was two weeks late but tests came up negative. Stress/diet changes/medications/weight loss or gain can all make your period go really wonky. If you want peace of mind, go see your doctor for a blood test. But unless you're starting to feel medical symptoms (google 'early signs of pregnancy') I would take a deep breath.

We don't really have a set time or anything, but we're thinking after we get married, we really want to move from here in Vegas to Oregon, we hate Vegas! But we should be able to get our house in OR within a year or two, I'm only 23, 24 when we get married, and FS will be 31, so if we wait a year or two and once we get our house all set up, then we'll try for kids, we also want me to be able to be a stay at home mom, so we also need to make sure we can afford that financially.

@Jennifer- It sounds like stress is to blame for this delay, so try not to worry too much. It will be okay either way like you said!

Sending you good luck period vibes!!!!!!!

Nice JulyBride!!! HAHAHAHHA!

thanks ladies!!!

Dont get me wrong.....we both want children....but not 2 months before we are to be married!!!! :-)

I am almost 25 years old, in few weeks :-) and my FS is 23 years old. We both feel we are too young to have children and we never had a normal relationship, because we always had a long distance relationship. He is in deployment until Dec and he is stationed in VA, I am in WA. So we feel we rather have alone time together for four or five years, just two of us and my two babies (dogs). We want to be selfish because when we have children, it is for 18 years or more lol. Don't get us wrong, we love kids but we want to travel and enjoy just two of us for a long time. I want to start trying at age 28 or 29.

We originally thought about 3-5 years but now I don't think that's going to work lol. I've taken the role of "mother" ever since I was 8 years old. Odd I know.

And seeing the way FS interacts with children just makes my heart melt! I'm hoping for maybe 2 years. We definitely won't be "trying" for a baby unless we're pretty financially stable. But once we're ok in that department, I think we're just going to "let it happen". I'm not entirely sure yet...

also, I originally was thinking maybe 3-4 kids and now I'm like uhh.... 2 is fine, unless we have 2 of the same sex. Then we'll try for a third to get a different one lol...

(I really want 3 though! SHH!)

I would like to start trying at our 1 year. He will have one semester left in school and I will have the baby during the summer time (I'm a teacher!). We only want one, but if pregnancy goes well and he feels confident then we will try for 2. Lord only knows what will happen!

I will be 29, and he will be 31 when we get married. So I'm definitely hearing my clock start ticking.

I'm in no rush, so we'll see.

Before im 30 so in like 2 years after the wedding.. awesome idea about the babymoon! haha..

We're planning for at least a year after we are married. However, you never know what may happen! My sister never wanted to have children and a month of she was married she found out she was pregnant! So I guess what happens happens! We also wanted to wait so we could enjoy some us time first and to try and catch up on our payments (we both have a lot of student loans out right now as I just graduated and he graduated two years ago). But we'll see!

Fh and i LOVE kids, especially babies, and we both dont wanna wait! BUT well both only be 21 when were married, and were def not broke, especially since my new job, but were not financially well off enough for kids. plus, were saving sexy time for our wedding night... so (this will be wayy tmi) we want a few years to REALLY enjoy each other as a married couple. lol. we might be buying a house soon and we want to be allllll ready when its baby time. and when were ready, were goin for the ditch the bc and have fun method. lol. no rush, so no watching my ovulation cycle or stuff like that. cant wait though!

Haha lovedevine I am with ya. We feel better to wait until we have a house and pay off all of our debts and able to have enough money to have kids. Amen to enjoy each others for few years ;-)

@Jenn O-- I wouldn't stress about it-- because that's probably what it is-- STRESS. Or something of the like. Phantom pregnancies also happen when you think you are pregnant (you get symptoms). Honestly, I am about 15 days late with two negative tests. For me it could be the combination of stress because of my new job (which is an extremely stressful job anyways) and the fact that I may still have a cyst on one of my ovaries. Have you ever been checked for those? Some women have them but don't experience pain-- I unfortunately don't have that luxury. But they can cause you to miss your period-- I missed mine for 3 months up until about 2 weeks before the wedding at which point I had to visit the ER for my cysts

Courtney is 28 and Clay is 30.They will be trying shortly after the wedding to have a baby! (yipee).They both are older and have established careers so it will be time.If your a younger bride, please consider taking time for you and your huney before having babies. You will never get that time back, enjoy it!

We were going to start right away. Then I decided I wanted to go back to school so we decided to wait until our 1 year anniversary. My doctor doesn't anticipate my getting pregnant on my own so that gives us some time of trying but if it doesn't happen we know we have to look into something. If it does happen than I am just pregnant through my last year of school but no biggie, I have an awesome support system with FS and my family and anything is possible when you put your mind to it. Might be more difficult but I have never done anything the easy way!

Plan on waiting 2yrs.

I'm already 30 and he's 32, and I think his clock is moving faster than mine! Everytime a cute kid comes on tv or in a movie, he says "I want one!". I have a feeling we'll stop being careful as soon as the vows are said and let nature take its course