How long were you together with your DP before having a child together?

[Chocolatecheeks111]

Any regrets? If you could go back in tkme would you have changed anything?

I will start, 4 years....! No regrets =)

Me and DP first met when I was 16 and him 17 and had brief flirtation then but didn't really get together until we met up later when I was 25. I'm now 46 and had my DC in August, when I was still just about 45. So 20 years.
*Did realise that on a thread recently I put that I was 41 so am clearly in denial about my age.

9 years 🙂 Together since 15 though, so felt reasonable age. Together 10 years this year 😀

About 2.5 years! And it was planned. Absolutely no regrets. Have a house together now and another baby on the way. Wouldn't change a thing.

7 years. We did the travelling- house purchase- dog - engagement - marriage - baby. I wanted to do things properly. It’s been perfect.

I think it’s important to have a strong relationship which takes a couple of years to build (imo). Nothing has challenged us like having a baby has!

About 14 months. I don't mess around.

Just over 2 years and absolutely no regrets

12 years. No regrets. I like to do very full research before committing

16 years together with 11 of them married before our first DC arrived... it took a long time and we did a lot of IvF. I do regret the timing I wish it had been even a few years sooner so I could have squeezed in DC3 but I feel too old for that now however we still pinch ourselves we had DC1 never mind being lucky enough to have DC2!!

Have to say I am surprised more are long term relationships on this thread before DC arrived!

7 years, married for 1 year. Perfect for us.

Met in January, engaged in February, married in August, first child born June the following year. Second child arrived 2 years later
That was 14 years ago, no regrets! I was 37 when we met so time was not on our side.

Had been together 5 years when I fell pregnant (we were planning to start trying but it happened first month after I stopped taking the pill). Ended up losing that pregnancy / having 3 miscarriages in a year, and we had to go for recurrent miscarriage testing.

We now have 3 children (6,4 and 1) and we've been together 12 years.

Plenty of regrets but the kids aren't one of them

12 months. 3 months before we got pregnant. Wouldn't change a thing.

Nearly 22 years - married for 19. Infertility problems meant that it just didn't happen earlier.

‘Officially’became a couple in the April and I was pregnant by the August we are still together despite everything and obviously I wouldn’t change DS for the world, but I can’t say it was easy.

I got pregnant about 12 months after we started dating. We were quite young (early 20s) and I was on the pill. You’ll roll your eyes but it failed. It would have been nice to have more ‘couple’ time before having our son but no regrets. We’ve now been together almost 7 years, another DC and are married and we are still ridiculously in love (with each other and our beautiful babies)

10 months.

I reckon I could get it down to 9 1/2 next time

That was 21 years ago btw. We've done ok

11 years

3 years, no regrets but with hindsight if I'd known it would have been so quick to fall pregnant I would have waited a couple more years.

Just to be clear she arrived at the 10 month point. 2 weeks late

But we were really good friends beforehand

12 years(together young), married for just under 3. There are several times in our relationship I though we shoukd have a child, the timing of when we dd was absolutely the right time.

9 years, 5 years married. We'd been trying for a while though.

4 years together.Perfect.Dc2 came a year later.We have been together[not married] for 28 years this year.

12 years

8 years married

7 years