Hallo Mumsnetters! This is my first post, and in introduction, I'm 27 and don't yet have any children. I hope I'm welcome despite this cos I've been lurking for a long time now and really wanted to ask you all something. Hope this is the right forum too, I wasn't sure it fitted anywhere else.
DH (first time I've written that!) and I have been married for six months, and have been together for eight years. We're both sure that we want children and we're both very interested in everything to do with children -- I'm obsessed with Mumsnet and we watch all the parenting stuff on telly, and we talk about it a lot. We haven't got a lot of experience however with real life children!
I know that having children will have a big impact on our lives (obviously) and I've considered that a lot. I'm a bit worried about my job, which is actually three jobs, and stopping that even temporarily will involve giving up a lot of control (it's not high-powered, just I'm the only one who does the jobs). But I assume everybody worries about the impact it'll have on their lives, and at some point you just have to make the decision that it's time to do it.
That's what I'm having trouble with. We're sure we want to do this, but when it comes to leaving the condom off we just find it hard to take that final no-going-back step. I'm also aware that when we do, conceiving won't necessarily be as easy as I'm hoping it will be. So, anyway, how do we finally make that decision to do it now? How did you? Any thoughts? I wish it would just happen accidentally, but it's not that easy!