Q&A: Did you discuss pregnancy with your partner before having a baby?
Question by Kar: Did you talk about pregnancy with your partner ahead of acquiring a infant?
Im not pregnant, nor arranging to be. Just out of interest wondered if everyone discussed having a infant just before obtaining one? How did they react when you told your other half?
Thanks!
Finest answer:
Answer by Chuckles
We had talked about acquiring children at sometime in the close to long term, we were not working with birth control nor had been we trying, if it happened it occurred.
As we talked about kids, i fell pregnant lol. When i told my partner he danced around the lounge, he was so pleased.
When our son was around six.5 months old we discussed a second youngster and agreed an 1.5-two year gap is what we’ll aim for. Hmmm, we shouldn’t of spoke, yep, i fell pregnant.
Our son is practically eight months old and i’m 10 weeks pregnant. Not what we planned, but we should’ve recognized lol. Our youngsters will be 14 months apart rather of the planned 18-24 months lol.
My partner laughed when i told him, he couldn’t believe it. He was/is pleased and excited.
We will not talk about children now, in case of more pregnancies too soon lol
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June 2nd, 2011 at 11:03 am
ofcourse!
You have to talk to your partner about such an important part of life.
my husband and I talked about kids even when we were dating, just talked about if we did want kids in the future, how many and how we would raise them.. you don’t wanna end up with a guy and never talk about kids and one day realize he doesn’t want any or he doesn’t feel the same way about raising them.
We talked about kids all the time knowing we wouldn’t have any for years, 4 years after being married to be exact, his reaction was good, i mean it wasn’t like I was trying to pressure him into having a kid as soon as i met him, we had same beliefs, morals and we agreed how long to wait and how to raise them even years before actually wanting to have them.
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:25 am
when we first were about to have sex i did explain to him that no matter what, there is ALWAYS a chance of pregnancy, and if it did happen i dont believe in having an abortion, he was fine with that.
then years later we both talked about having a baby and decided we were ready, i stopped taking my pill, had a regular cycle 28days later and we began to try
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 am
Me and my partner always said that we would start trying to have a baby when i was 25 and he 27, as that seemed a good age, not too old, not too young. Its not something we overly discussed but we both knew we both wanted children at some point. But after 4 years of us being together at 22 years old i fell pregnant, to which im 32 weeks on monday, it wasn’t planned but we are both extremely happy about it!
June 2nd, 2011 at 11:51 am
yeah we spoke about it and planned to have a baby within 2 years or so, i fell pregnant after a month of being together – i’m now 16 weeks pregnant and we’re both happy, it was unexpected, but a nice surprise!