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[quote=Anonymous]I'm another vote for not waiting if you know you want children and definitely start if you want more than one child.  I really think of each pregnancy as a ~2 year physical commitment (10 months to gestate and a year or so of nursing - even if you don't nurse though it's just very taxing in the early days).  DH and I got married at 29 and planned to wait a year to start trying.  6 months in we felt ready so we accelerated the timeline.  It took us 7 months to conceive DD.  After she was born we thought we wanted to start trying again around her first birthday but got gun shy when the time came.  We started a few months later.  It took us 11 months to conceive again and during that time I was diagnosed with decreased ovarian reserve at age 33.  We lost that second pregnancy in the early second trimester due to a chromosomal issue.  Three months later I got pregnant again (surprise) and I'm now 11 weeks along and hoping it's healthy.  If it works out I'll be 34 when I deliver.

If I were you I would read taking charge of your fertility and go off any BC you're on.  The book teaches you how to track your cycle and how to get pregnant but also how to avoid an unwanted pregnancy by following your body's fertility signs and timing sex appropriately.  Even if you use it as "birth control" for a while you can get a picture of where things stand for you naturally and see if medical intervention makes sense.  I learned from tracking my cycles that my luteal phase is really short, meaning I start to bleed too quickly for an egg to implant.  That led me to see an RE earlier than the recommended 1 year for my age group and get a workup.    [/quote]

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