this kind of makes me laugh

my husband and I had always agreed that we would be married and buy a house before having our own family.

so it took us almost 7 years to get married and just over 2 years after we were married we bought our first home.

before that I had people say to me that I should start trying for a baby as it could take years. Yes and it could happen right away.

I always said I would rather it take us a year of trying after we have bought a house that for me to fall pregnant right away and it take us years before we could even buy a house.

as it is it only took us a couple of weeks of trying and I was pregnant so yes it can happen that fast but at the same time I was prepared for it take a little longer

Yes but there are those who it takes years for and I dont think you should take for granted the possibility of getting pregnant. I see a lot of my friends who ok, they have travelled, got a house etc... but left it so late that when they tried to get pregnant and discovered they couldnt, a lot of them are late 30's now and still trying. I was adamant i wanted a house and to be married before we had children, had to wait 9 years before hubby proposed but then I was still only 24 when i got married. If you arent getting married till later i think you have to seriously think and weigh up the pros and cons and consider what is more important.

I wanted to have it all before we got pregnant too but decided that it would probably take ages and i was running out of time (35 in sept) and we better just start. No time is ever the perfect time. We are just SOOOOOOO thankful that it was easy this time. Hopefully we will be okay for some more later.

I have a friend who is trying at the moment and she is depressed after only 3 months as all her friends are pregnant at the moment and seem to have done so with ease. It is hard to reassure her that 3 months is not long. I wish I could do something to help her butI cant.

yup I have a friend who has been ttc for years..she knows I am pregnant and is more than happy for me but I cant help but feel sad for her.

Well we've been married for a couple of years and thought that it'd take a while to get pregnant, so as soon as we knew we had money for a house deposit and were coming back to nz we started trying.
Officially (from LMP) we were pregnant the day we arrived back in the country. Now it's the house thing that's taking ages... and of course we've got the added deadline of the baby coming to speed up the process. Unfortunately it's not as easy finding a house now as it would have been years ago.

We went off contraception mid January, with our wedding in a couple of weeks time on the 3rd Feb 07. As I had been on the pill for around 15 years, we thought it would take a minimum of 3 - 4 months, possibly longer to fall pregnant so were so not prepared for what was in store for us!

While on honeymoon, I had a massive rejection for my favourite drink being Coruba and I suddenly thought, oh my god, what if I am pregnant! Turns out, I was one week and two days pregnant at our wedding! DH was a bit gutted by the fact (typical male) that he didn't get much practice in as we fell pregnant on the second time we BD'd with no protection, obviously its meant to be!

When we told our family and friends, there was no surprise (although they are really stoked for us) as everyone had been on our backs for years about having a baby as we have been together for so damn long!

We also had no problems conceiving - I was preggers 6 weeks after our wedding too!! It took us by surprise as we also thought it would take so long. I can't imagine life without Brenna now - my heart really goes out to those people who have trouble getting pregnant. My SIL has just fallen pregnant after having lots of probs with PCOS. Her due date it almost exaclty 1 year from what my due date was with Brenna

We did things backwards too. Maya was our 'surprise' baby - I was half way thru uni and we had no money etc. I spent the first 2 years of her life as a single Mum, but I absolutely don't regret having her for a second. She didn't ask to be born into chaos, so I've made sure that she hasn't had to sacrifice anything just because we didn't 'plan' her.

The gremlins on the other hand were about as planned as you can get - it was just having 2 at a time that threw us! We TTC for 12 months, got pregnant and had a miscarriage and then fell pregnant again within 6 weeks of the miscarriage. At that stage we were planning on staying in the rental we were in and looking at buying some time this year. But finding out there were two babies on the way meant we had to re-evaluate - I had to finish work earlier than I'd planned and wasn't sure when I'd be able to start back, plus the extra expense of having to get two of everything, and having to move to a bigger house and buy a bigger car, so no buying a house just yet for us!
But at the end of the day we're happy. My kids have everything they need (and probably a whole heap of stuff that they don't ). I'd like to have one more baby and if that's going to happen it'll be before I'm 30 coz I decided years ago that having started early (at 21) I want to be done early too so that I can work on a career etc. later on when the kids are older.

We did everything the wrong way around. Hubbie went to England at the start of our relationship, he came home after 9 months and we moved into together, 6 weeks later I was pregnant We stayed in our rental accomodation until she was 6 months old then brought our house. We got married when she was 16mths old and sold our house 18mths ago and are now renting again. I would never have thought that I would have got pregnant again so she was a pleasant surprise. This time around it took 8 months to fall pregnant...