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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I have been together for 3 years and married for 1 year. We got engaged after 1 year, married at 2 years, and we have been married for a year. I’m 33 and we have talked about starting to try for kids, but I feel like it’s still so soon. We have only been together for 3 years. I know kids change the relationship, and I don’t want to feel like we can’t continue to grow our love together because we had kids too soon. I would prefer to wait another 1-2 years but I know that’s a gamble given my age. We really want two kids and how to have them close in age. Has anyone had kids so soon after dating/getting married? If so, how did it turn out? Did you wish you had waited or were you happy you had them when you did? [/quote]

We had our first kid three years and 11 months after we first met. So, about where you’d be if you started trying now (assuming all went smoothly). I was 29 when we had our first kid, so I didn’t feel any particular time pressure, but it felt like a good time. (In hindsight, we were wildly naive about how expensive kids are! But it all worked out fine, and I’m now 43 and only six years from my last kid going to college!) Anyway, I think that if you feel secure in your relationship, this is a fine time to have a child. I had no idea what parenthood was really like but it turned out that both DH and I love it. :)[/quote]

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