at what age do you want to start having children?

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Well FH is the custodial parent to his 7 year old daughter....so ideally I'd love to start right away...but we just don't have the money

I'll have a year and a half left in grad school after the wedding...so probably 2-3 years after the wedding we'll start trying...so I'll be 27 or 28, which is right when I always said I'd have kids...my baby making window is 28-32...all my babies will be had in that window.

For my 32nd bday FH can get his tubes tied

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when we get married i will be 22 and fh will be 23. we would like to wait like 3 years before we start trying. so probably when i am 25.

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FH and I don't plan on kids - I'm in my early 30s and FH is in his 40s. I decided at age 25/26 that I wasn't going to have kids and instead focused on my career (I had just finished grad school). I can always pop out kids later if I change my mind - didn't Madonna pop out a baby in her late 40s?

Technology is great these days, also FH and I are grateful to have good careers and solid incomes that we can afford to raise kids the way we want should our plans change after we marry. My mom had me at the age of 27 and my parents really hadn't planned for how expensive child costs/education was - there are a lot of things they wish they could have given me but couldn't because of $$, so I def don't want to repeat their mistakes!

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we'll both be 24 at the wedding...he'll be almost 25...i'd like to have our first when i'm 29

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I will be two months shy of 28 when we get married, and FH will turn 30 one month before. We've talked about starting to try about a year after the wedding, so probably 29 for me and 31 for FH.

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i will be 24 when we get married and plan to start right away!

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I'll be 25 when I'm married. I'd like to have kids before I'm 30...but not until at least after being married a year or two.

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I will be 24 when we get married, and FH will be 25. I'm thinking around the age of 27/28. :)

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I'll be 29 next month - at the moment I don't want kids but I change my mind all the time. If we decide to I would say we'll wait at least 1-2 years

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Hopefully by 30. I'm 27 now.

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I will be 30 and FH will be 33.... so maybe we'll start trying when we're 32/35.

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i am 30 now, FH 31. we both have september bdays so will be 31 and 32 not long after the wedding..... with that said, we don't want to wait that long since i have had some female probs and ya just never know.. and 35 and over is high risk, blah, blah.... BUT I would like to enjoy married life for almost a yeat before being preggers! we will see how that goes! the age thing is getting me nervous!

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im 26. maybe around 27 or 28

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I'm also 33..I guess for those who are 25 or younger, anything over 30 is considered 'old' but just wait a few years - everyone will be this age soon enough
FH is older than me (by almost 10 years) - we aren't planning on kids but if it happens 'accidentally' (I'm not on any pill), then I guess we will prepare for parenthood!

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I am 21 and DH is 23, and I'm still in school. I'd like to wait until we're out of our apartment and in a house, and until my career is established (he graduated 2 years ago and has a good job already) and I'd like to enjoy married life and travel, just the two of us. We plan on beginning to try when I'm around 25ish.

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I'll have just turned 26 by the wedding and we'd like to wait a year to a year and a half so I'll be 27 or 28.