Thread: When Did You Know you Wanted a Baby?

Well I had an unplanned and wasn't ready pregnancy and lost the baby and was very sad and didn't realize how close you get to a baby growing inside you. After I lost my first baby I longed to be pregnant so I waited until my body and mind was ready to try and it happened on the first try! And Im as happy as pig in mud!!

When I decided that I wanted a baby was about 4 months after I was married, it took over a year to concieve with the help of clomid. To long for something and not be able to have it the instant you want it is a horrible thing. I got pregnant with my son and had him and ever since that day I thank God for him each and every day he is so wonderful and such a gift, I also thank God for giving me this baby inside me too! To have a baby is to forever have your heart walk around outside your body! that is my favorite quote because it is so true!!!!!!!!

Dh and I were married 7 years ago and said we were not going to have children. But about 3 months ago we both changed our mind! I am glad we waited cause it gave us a chance to have time with just each other!

Now here we are TTC...

i started wanting a baby when they told me I couldnt have kids.. And was gearing up for a hysterectomy..Until that point I didnt really think about it.. I was 18.. dh didnt want kids at all.. He was dead set on no kids.. He had seen too many hurt through ruined/bad marriages (his family).. And he swore he'd never do that to anyone.. So he didnt wnat kids.. We were both content with that.. Then I got pregnant and it changed his mind and mine..

My husband and I decided to try for a baby last december, we had just moved from SF to Arizona, closer to my parents.. sold our condo and bought our house. We both felt that we were finally financially stable enough and mentally ready for a baby (I had been ready for years!lol)
I think the timing must have been right all together, because it took me 6 months to get pregnant and now I have two beautiful baby boys.. twins were not part of the plan, but a very welcome and wonderful surprise!!

I love this thread. In my twenties I thought I never wanted children, and I married someone who also didn't want children. And for that I am grateful, because that marriage was a horrible mistake, and to bring kids into that would have been awful.

But now I am in my second and final marriage to the love of my life, and as soon as I knew we were going to get married, I knew I wanted to have children with him. And he also wanted to have children with me! Yea!!

We did have some rocky times the first couple of years and went to marriage counseling. We decided to start TTC May 2005 and got pregnant on the first try, but we still had not worked through all of our problems. And we ended up having a m/c at 5 weeks. So we decided to wait a few months and get our relationship on solid footing.

So this January we started TTC again. And each month that we didn't get pregnant, I was so upset. I tried to be patient about it, knowing that it can take a couple of years at our age (35 and 46), but I wanted to be pregnant instantly. Everywhere I looked there were pregnant women, and I would think "Why not me?". Needless to say we were estatic when we got our BFP in June!!! And we continue to be estatic every single day. It is such a blessing.

Well I think I knew when I was about 6 years old ! I decided I wanted a baby, therefore I WAS pregnant (I didn't know how you got preggers). I would sit in my Rainbow Brite rocker and tell my older brother to get me water and snacks... because I was pregnant and had to be careful, so he had to do whatever I wanted. . And he would !

I remember that like it was yeterday. ahhh if it were only so easy.

I always knew I wanted kids SOMEDAY... and was kind of in a hurry because my mom and most of my aunts didnt go to college, got married right out of high school and had kids when they were younger than I am now (24). So I grew up with that as my personal "norm." But when I first got married, we decided to deliberately create some time just for the two of us and used condoms for the first 6 months or so. Then in about October of last year, we got caught up in the heat of the moment, forgot to use a condom, AF was late... I was half thrilled and half scared out of my mind!

But... when it turned out to be a false alarm and AF showed a little behind schedule, I sat down on the bathroom floor and cried my eyes out, and I knew right then that I wanted a baby... so we started REALLY trying the following month!

That is simple - when i met and fell in lov ewith my husband. never wanted kids before then but then i fell in love , true love, and everything changed.