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 =)

Around 2 years. Our oldest was a honeymoon baby. Don't regret it because we are still together 30 years later but wouldn't recommend it. I think 5+ years is probably a good time.

4 years. It was just the right time and very carefully planned that way.

Umm... about 5 weeks from first date to contraception failure, so minus two weeks then plus 40 weeks, about 43 weeks .

DD is only 2 months old, I think I regret not having more time just as a couple but I don't regret her maybe when she gets an attitude

I was pregnant after nine months, not planned! We moved to America together after six months though, so we were pretty commuted. We had our second child 3.5 years later and eight years after the first we are about to have our third and planning a new move across continents with all three kids in tow.

Got pregnant 4 months into relationship. Happily married 7 years later with another DC who we had a year after the first.

@olderthanyouthink Totally get where you are coming from and I can only speak from experience, but one of the plus points was that not having that much time as a couple before baby meant that Baby wasn’t a huge shock to the relationship, it was kind of the norm from the beginning and we grew together from there. I know a lot of couples who have been together for years before having a baby and because they have had all that lovely time together just the two, it really is a massive shock to the system to bring someone else into that and can be very hard. I guess it’s about finding the positives in what isn’t really an (on paper!) ideal timing situation. Congrats on your baby!

6 years , don’t regret having children with him but we aren’t together anymore .

5 years. We didn’t live together at the time though so it was a lot of change all at once. DD is a peach though so it’s not been as stressful as it could have been.

11 years, and married 9. No regrets

About 2.5 years - she was an unplanned honeymoon baby. I don’t regret having her for one second but it would have been nice to have some more fun just-married time with DH

11 years