How long were your parents together before they had you?

[DionneB]

my parents had my brother before me , so i am pretty sure they were together about 10 years before they had me so a long time.

Around 5 years. They'd been living together (in a house share) for 4 and married for just under two years. I was their first DC.

20 years TTC then adopted me and my brother ..... must have been a shock!

Together 7, married 15 months.

Married 6 years before I came along. I'm the eldest but still an accident as my DM constantly reminds me. Think they met and were engaged in the year before they married, so approx 1973/74 when they met. They're still married now and had two more after me.

Old gimmer alert

Married June 1953, Mother warned that having babies were a serious risk to her health following major illness

Sister born May 1954
Me born may 1960

Often mentioned during my wilder teens as a warning of the fallibility of contraception, so no surprise that I was one of the early adopters of the contraceptive implant.

10 months. They started dating November 1966 and 'had' to get married February 1967. I arrived six months later. Marriage failed 18 years later after limping along for about 10 years after much infidelity on her side. She never did learn how to keep her pants up when in the presence of any unrelated male (attractive or not)!!!!!

My parents were married on the 25th Sept 1955 and I was born on the 25th June 1956!! They were both 34 and had been engaged ages so!!!

I was born about 10 months after marriage and they had been together about 9 months when they got married. Too soon for them and they split less than 10 years after they were married. Apparently my dad told my mum if they hadn't had me they would have split within the year.

About 3 months and my parents married 11 months after I was born and divorced 13 years later.
I found out about my first after dating dp for 2 months and he was born at 33 weeks. We've been together many years now and never faltered

Well, my parents got married seven years before they had me, following roughly one year of courting beforehand. They had my older brother first, though, about two years earlier. Although, with that having been said...it was a bit of a complicated arrangement because my mother had another guy on the side throughout most of my childhood and there is a very decent chance that he might have gotten her pregnant with me. I remember him being constantly around until I was about 12 or 13. And since I look remarkably similar to my mother and she wasn't interested in pursuing paternity tests, I'll likely never know for sure. My older brother, born two years earlier, was definitely my dad's. My younger sister was born three years later and, although I'm likely the only one who knows this aside from my mother, is definitely her boyfriend's. But regardless, the man with whom she was still married and living all the way through until now, she had married about seven years prior to my being born.

I was a honeymoon baby and sadly my DF died before I was born so my DM met, married, got pregnant, was widowed, & gave birth in less than a year . She did go on to re-marry and she and my lovely step dad has been together for nearly 60 years now .

My parents married in 1949. My oldest brother was born in 1955, nearly 6 and a half years later. My DM continued working as a shorthand/typist for four days a week after they married,which was quite unusual back then,as a lot of women gave up their jobs when they married (they were saving for a deposit for a mortgage). My other brother was born 2 and half years after my oldest brother (1958),and I was born 5 and half years after that (1963). My DM told me here was a much bigger gap between me and my brother than between my brothers as my DDad wasn't keen on having a third child. He was also worried it would be another boy. . My DMum had been an only child and hated it,and was determined to have a bigger family than just two. Eventually,they had a huge row,which culminated in my DMum throwing a box of baby clothes down the stairs at my DDad,shouting 'Well,we might as well get rid of these then!'. My DDad eventually relented,on the condition that if it was another boy he was going back that was IT. No more. I'm lucky to be here really!

They were together 10 years and married two. I'm the eldest.

Met in 1961, married a year later, im the youngest of 2 and born in 75, brother is 7 years older than me, dad died when I was 7,

There was a loss of 4 mcs and 2 stillbirths between us and his twin was lost in early pregnancy

5 years after marriage

13 years and I'm the eldest.

About 6 years I think (9 months after marriage although going by my due she would have only been just pregnant). They seperated just before I was 4 & divorced when I was about 4.5.

11 years. And I’m the oldest by many years!

I don’t think they really wanted children.

They dated for 18 months and got married. I was born 8 years later. They are still happily married over 50 years later.

About 10 years.