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How long were you with your OH before having a child ?

113 replies

worldwidetravel2017 · 26/03/2025 00:00

Hey all
As per the title
Just curious
Thank you

OP posts:
Conundrumseverywhere · 26/03/2025 06:33

Four years .

TheCurious0range · 26/03/2025 06:36

9 years but we got together young at 25, only married a year. We travelled a lot, built careers and a jolly old time in our twenties, then I sold my flat and we bought a renovation project house, and then got married, we wanted to do all of that before we started trying for a baby. I had also been told natural conception was unlikely for me she to severe pcos and endometriosis, so it was a shock when we conceived the first month I came off the pill.

CurlewKate · 26/03/2025 06:41

16 years.

Willyoushutthefrontdoor · 26/03/2025 06:42

Together 7 years. Married 1.5

ethelredonagoodday · 26/03/2025 06:44

10 years, but we met at the end of uni so were relatively young when we got together.

SquigglePigs · 26/03/2025 06:46

14 years.

MyIvyGrows · 26/03/2025 06:49

15 years

LifeD1lemma · 26/03/2025 06:50

9 years - got together at 22, married at 29, DC1 born when we were 31.

Echomama · 26/03/2025 06:51

About 3ish weeks before we started ttc 🙈 conceived 6 months later. Still together happily and married 10 years on

PrincessHoneysuckle · 26/03/2025 06:51

3 months til I got pregnant.Had ds on our first anniversary of meeting.

Halfhardy · 26/03/2025 06:53

9 years and married for 4 years. We were 16 and 17 when we met.

RosesAndHellebores · 26/03/2025 06:55

Married after 2.5 years; first baby after 2.5 years of marriage, but I had a couple of miscarriages so later than we'd planned.

Fictionreader100 · 26/03/2025 06:55

A few months short of three years .

Roselilly36 · 26/03/2025 07:02

12 years

user1471538275 · 26/03/2025 07:05

5 years when we made the decision that we were ready and in a stable enough position to have children.

We were lucky that it happened very fast after that.

Sassybooklover · 26/03/2025 07:05

From meeting my husband until the birth of our son, it was 4.5 years. From actually marrying him until my son's birth it was just over 2 years.

tealandteal · 26/03/2025 07:06

7 years (married for 5). We met at 20 and 22.

ZiggyZowie · 26/03/2025 07:08

13 years

Infertility issues.

Ended up with five children in the end. !!

NormaNormalPants · 26/03/2025 07:09

8 years, married 3 years.

Summer2025 · 26/03/2025 07:13

11 years 8 months. I was 21 when we met, 22 when we married.

Agathacardsformula · 26/03/2025 07:17

8 years together/5 years married. 4 years trying to concieve/ fertility treatment and he left me 18 weeks pregnant for another woman. Never sees dc/ never paid cm. You just never know someone.

RaspberryBeretxx · 26/03/2025 07:20

5 years. Things have been hard since dc.

DustyLee123 · 26/03/2025 07:20

6 years

MrsR87 · 26/03/2025 07:21

15 years.

Funnywonder · 26/03/2025 07:23

Over 20 years.

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