I’ve always wanted children, but over the years I’ve kept putting back having them due to switching careers and retraining, moving around a lot and of course, the increase cost of living.
We are now (fingers crossed) about to be stable for a while, we’ve bought a home and have two secure (hopefully) jobs. I started to realise around 6 months ago we are moving into a position to have children, but we both decided to wait a couple of years, work our way up more in our careers, settle into the new home and area, and just have some us time.
However, we found out one of his parents is poorly and one of mine is, in the last couple of months. Death isn’t imminent but we aren’t going to get the time we thought we had with them.
We both decided last night we’d like to start TTC this month so they can meet their grand baby and have some years with them. Although we know we may not conceive for some time, which is why we thought we should try.
This is obviously an emotional based response and I wanted to know if anyone had a similar reaction to realising your parents mortality? We do want children and are absolutely in a place to love and care for them, but we are moving this forward for this reason.