What made you start TTC?

Fleury, you're eligible for maternity leave as long as you've completed 12 months (6 in some jobs) there. You can be pregnant for 9 of those months

But I don't blame you for wanting time with your new hubby. We started TTC after our wedding. It took us 18 months to get pregnant. As frustrating as that was I'm thankful we had all that time together as just a couple

I was at mine for just about 6 months, was already 9 weeks pregnant when I started (didn't know I was pregnant when I accepted the job, had a long notice to work then 3 week holiday before starting new job). I still got 14 weeks paid but legally was not entitled to the unpaid part (but my work have let me have it anyway).

for me it would be the fact that my dh is bit older than me and i dont want to be 40 and still chasing a career and then wanting to have a kid and running after a teenager at 60. Me & DH are coming up to our 3yr wedding anniversary and nearly 2yrs ago we decided ttc, only in the last year we got serious about it-before that it was just lets see what happens

hey vanillabean I am 38 and ttc our first together, I have a 12yr old from a previous relationship. We only met just over a year ago and are getting married in about ten days. I always thought I would like to have more kids but never met the person who I wanted to have them with, and then I met dp last year and well I feel Im not too old I still run round after a 12yr old.

But I find it a bit scary thinking that it may not happen cause of my age! But we have been trying actively for about four months now and nothing yet but am also trying to lose about 20kgs so this might help our chances. But think we will get some basic tests done if we are not preggy by beginning of March so that gives us one more cycle after this. Cause of my age I don't want to wait to see if everything is ok, if you know what I mean.

Makes me realise how much I took getting pregnant for granted when I was in my twenties lol

Hey Rashika sorry about your loss, and its great to see some other OAP's (hehe) here in the ttc forum.

It will be neat to go though this journey with others on Ohbaby in similar situations. I think for me I find it freaky to think we won't get preggy naturally but I think I will be fine once I know either way, and if we need fertility assistance then so be it cause my new partner is wonderful and I would dearly love to have kids with him. So I am determined one way or another we will have kids

I have known Neil since we were 21 and our friendship/ relationship took a few stumbles until we got together properly 11 years ago, married for 6. We always said we were too young to have children, and enjoyed acting like them most of the time. About 2 years ago I had a bit of a scare, period was about 6 weeks late before I was brave enough to test and it was negative. Instead of being relieved and overjoyed at getting away with it again, I was gutted and when I spoke to Neil, so was he. At the time we were both 35. So we decided to stop trying not to get pregnant and see what happened - you can see from my ticker the end result