Hey everyone, I’m sorry for the essay I’m about to fire up, but I need some reassurance and hopefully some advice?!
I’m 24 and lucky enough to be engaged to my best friend, we’ve been together for 6 years and we’re really happy. We live together in an annexe on the side of his parents house at the moment while we save to buy our own home, hopefully early next year. We both work full time and earn fairly good money, we’ve travelled the world together from an African Safari to Jamaica, Mexico, Paris, Dublin, and so many more. We’ve made some amazing memories together during our relationship and we’re very lucky to have done what we have, and work hard for what we have, so feeling really ready to settle down.
From the very beginning of our relationship, dating back to about 18, I have known that my purpose in life is to be a mummy and there’s nobody else I’d want to build a family with than my partner. Its always been in the back of my mind, but over the last couple of years I have gone baby MAD. I honestly think about having a baby day in, day out and nothing else. I don’t help myself because I watch back to back one born, teen mum uk etc haha, guilty pleasures! But it makes me feel like I’m missing out and I generally feel quite sad about it. Don’t quote me when it does happen, but I’m even excited to be in labour myself to feel what it’s like and experience my new born baby being put on my chest for the first time. I just can’t think of anything more fulfilling in life.
After several conversations with my other half over the past year or so, we finally decided this evening that we are going to try from October. You can imagine my beaming smile! 
this gives us plenty more time to save, and at the moment we have around £17k saved up, which will be built on while we try to conceive (who knows how long it'll take!) and I'll still be working through my 9 month pregnancy.
Does anyone have any experience of saving whilst trying to conceive? It's a little bit scary not having our own place but we'll definitely be there by early next year and ready to move so long as we can find somewhere.
Basically, someone just tell me it's a good idea!