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[quote=Anonymous]Given your age, time together, and interest I’d go for it. I don’t think there’s a perfect time. My SIL had an unplanned pregnancy at 22 with someone she’d dated three months. She  married him then they wanted their kids to be close together so had her second 24. Seventeen years later they’re  one of the happiest couples I know and are awesome parents of teens.

By extreme contrast, my DH and I met as teens, married in our late 20s (I was 29 and he was 27) and then originally were waiting until he finished his PhD to have kids. Eventually that was taking long enough that we had our first. I was just a few weeks shy of turning 34. We lived in a 500 sq ft apartment in DC but we made it work! We wanted our kids about two years apart but that timing was right as we moved for his first non post-doc job and so we waited a little and then it took over a year for me to conceive. I had my second at 38. The timing is fine, but I do think in many ways I’ve probably been a better parent for my first child. [/quote]

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