Waiting to TTC

What a great profession to be in :)
Hubby and i are also both 24 we have been married for a year and a half and together for 4 years. He is a meat inspector and well i am now a stay at home mum :)
Our original plan was to wait until we were 26 to have a baby but the urge to become a mother was so consuming that we just had to do it and no regrets about it either haha.
We also own our own home how ever we plan on moving within the next couple of years to christchurch.
I am half way through my business degree and will complete it in 2 years time. Well thats the plan anyway. During my pregnancy i was horrendously sick for the hole time I'm not sure how i will cope with a toddler and studying as well. but i am determined!
The reason we were happy with having children a little earlier is that many people close to us have fertility issues and being on the depo i had scared myself into thinking it would take forever to have our child. We also figure that when they are old enough, we will still be young enough to carry on our careers or travel ect act.
Really hope you and your DH can start ttc when you want because when you want to become a mum there is no turning back from the feeling.

Hi everyone,

Would love to join this forum, currently waiting to TTC since coming off the Depo in April.
Im 26 and DH is 28, We have been married for 2 years, together for 6 years. Im a nurse and hubby is in the police. We currently have 1 daughter and cant wait to expand our family.

I agree Mac, there never seems to be the right time. Our daughter was a big surprise to us, so the wait to conceive this time seems like forever!

Hi ladies.

So excited to be joining in here again. I've been a member of OHbaby for years, since my son was two months old.
I'm not 100% sure when we'll start trying, but maybe in November or early next year. I want to avoid the kids birthdays though. lol. It's an expensive time of year having their birthdays and Christmas one after another. Didn't really think of that when planning the pregnancies.

I had a missed miscarriage in December 2011, so will be very nervous when we do try.


Edited by _Deb_ - 17 July 2014 at 4:20pm

Thanks Bex. Good luck with your appointment.

So we've settled on April. Seems so far away but it gives us time to pay off some bills and i want to lose some weight and sort a few other things out before then.

 So excited! Hopefully it'll go fast.

I was wondering how you got on Bex. That must have a been a shock for you. Good luck with it all.

That's around how much weight i wanna lose. I'm hoping to have lost it all by the time we start trying, but not sure that's gonna happen. lol. Yep, we can wait and lose weight together. Hehe..

Hi Ladies,

I have just been busy reading up on all of the above comments! I agree, its been a bit quieter. I think weight loss is something lots of people consider when they want to get pregnant. I want to lose another 6-8kg before we get pregnant... that horrible post-wedding weight that just creeps on!

How is the wait going for everyone? Bex, sorry to hear about you appointment, but exciting that you have set a date to start trying! We are still being very vague. It could be anywhere from 1 month to 3 years away! I am trying hard not to be too pushy. I just had my first period after coming off the pill and those darn cramps have returned! I think DH felt sorry for me because he has now started asking all of these questions about maternity leave entitlements etc.

Yay, March will come around quickly! When are you going to start taking Folic Acid?

I tend to just take Nurofen. The period pain one is quite good. When I was younger and they were really bad, I lived on 2x Nurofen and 2x Panadol every 4 hours for the first day or so. I don't like putting all of that stuff into my system... but it helped with the cramps.

That sounds like a good action plan, Bex! I keep trying to eat healthy, but then I get so tempted! Nov/Dec sounds good, it's not going to hurt taking it too early. I was hoping to take it for 3 months before starting, but I think DH will probably one day state he is ready and that will be the beginning. He says he won't give me much notice because I will get obsessed about it... haha like I am not already!

From what i have read, it is pretty much just a pre-conception visit where they will tell you if you need rubella boost and then just prenatal vitamins. I am trying to cut alcohol, soft drinks and excess sugar out of my diet at the moment.

hi everyone, how are you? DF had a flow test 5 weeks after vasectomy reversal which showed 10million sperm. this should grow theoretically to normal which is 15-20million.

I've had a few symptoms the last few days but don't want to read too much into it because we aren't supposed to be trying until december.....

Hi ladies, just thought I'd pop my head in here. We're looking at trying to conceive #2 next year. I'm an older Mum (36) so trying to decide when we start TTC and if it might take awhile even though we were lucky first time round that it happened very quickly