The economy and baby planning

[WebLady]

With the economy affecting our lives in so many other ways, I was curious if anyone was holding of on TTC because of the economy.

Please no judging ... poll coming.

[Danielle9608]

You know funny you should post this because Jon and I were talking about this just the other day. Sometimes I think to myself we must be crazy for trying for a baby now. Jon made the case though... we are stable people, with stable jobs and very marketable skills if we were to find ourselves without a job (Graphic Designer/Web Designer & Network Admin). Plus we have no idea how long this slump will be going on for. I am young so I have time, but Jon is already 31. He doesn't want to be using a walker for our childrens' high graduation. So to make a long story short, we are aware and nervous but the benefit FAR out weigh the risk.

[ikkin510]

We had been planning on trying at the start of April. But with the economy, we decided to wait until my DH gets his raise until we start trying for #2. He is suppose to get in come May or June, but we feel safer right now waiting to try until he definitely has it.

[Whitewater]

We don't want children and were never planning on having them. The recession makes us just agree even more that we made the right decision.


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[MrsDM]

We weren't planning on having kids for at least 2-3 years. However, with the way things are now, it definitely made me open my eyes a bit more as far as being able to afford things. We are very stable, especially for our ages, but I still worry about the "what if's".

[WBandMe]

We weren't planning on having kids for several years anyway, if we do it at all. I think if we were TTC though the economy wouldn't really affect it too much. I haven't found a job since I graduated, but I don't plan to work when we have a baby anyway, and FH's job is secure and he gets paid more than enough for us to live comfortably even with a baby. We have other factors influencing it... like, we want to be in our own house first and I am thinking about gonig to grad school.

[firespirit]

Actually it really hasn't affected our decision at all.

I put "other" because we aren't TTC right now, but will be later on this year. We both have fairly stable jobs at the moment, and I really don't want to be 60 and have kids still living at home, not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just not what I want... I want to be young enough to have the energy to help with grandkids... ya know....

I kind of think when it comes to kids if you wait for everything to be perfect, you'll never have them.

[Danielle9608]

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I kind of think when it comes to kids if you wait for everything to be perfect, you'll never have them.

Someone said that to me when I was complaining about not having a house with a yard. It's so true.

[Brian's Bride]

We're TTC and the economy hasn't played a factor in that decision. We also think there's never a "good time" for kids, and if you wait for it, it may never come! We both have good jobs with marketable skills in case anything should happen, so we thought we'd go for it!

[Ninedays9]

We kind of planned out that we'd try to have a baby when I had a job at a library... which would most likely be after I'm done with school. That won't be until at least 2011, and if the economy stays as bad as it is until then... it'll be a lot longer.

I could kind of see us having an "oops" before then... haha. It's a lot more likely for us than a planned baby, I think.

[FFC]

We're going to TTC starting September 2009 :whoohoo: I can't wait! Reason being - we'll both have our associates' degrees by the time the baby is born. The economy has nothing to do with our plans. My hubby is 33, and I'm 23. I can wait but he doesn't want to wait because he's afraid the older he gets the weaker his shooters get (not true by the way :rofl: )

ETA: I agree that there's never a "right time" to start trying.. financially. No matter who makes how much, it's never enough. So, we're shooting for soon! :whoohoo: Can you tell I'm excited? :whoohoo:

[NurseLau84]

We have so much going on in our lives right now that kids are a definite no....not to mention we're too young (24 and almost 25). If we decided to have a baby in a few (4-5) years, I don't think that the economy would weigh in on our decision at all. Similar to other people who have responded; DH has a stable job and I will have the same when I graduate. There are plenty of opportunities out there for engineers, and even more so for RN's (not to mention I will have the bachelor's degree behind it, which is a minority in nursing). Babies are expensive, though, so if it ever happens I would want to make sure that we could not just afford a child....but be able to get almost anything we wanted for him or her.
If we were in unstable fields, I'm sure my answer would be vastly different. These are scary times for some people.....not to mention I live in a state that boasts an 11% unemployment rate! :bbredface:

[MrsGrady08]

It has kind of affected ours. We wanted to wait a couple of years anyways. But DH and I disscused this the other day. He grew up kind of poor. He is one of three kids, his dad worked for $10 an hr mom stayed home, and they ate grilled cheese sandwiches almost everynight. So he does not want his kids to grow up like that. So he wants to wait until both of our jobs are stable. Hes in construction, and around here people are getting laid off everyday.

So we will probably wait another year or so to see if things get a little better.

[Katiegirl]

We weren't really planning on having a baby for at least several years, if at all. He already has 2 and we're not sure if we want to add more. LOL.

[Nekochanpurr]

We weren't planning on it for a while, anyway, so... Not affecting us too much. Though i might freak a little at first if i end up with a whoopsy baby. XD

[FutureKelley]

We were talking about going off bc after the wedding and letting "whatever happens, happens"... however, that has changed. If I get pregnant, I have to quit my job (too dangerous to work while pregnant). I'm not sure if I could get on some sort of pregnant women's disability or what, but right now we cannot live on one income. So, we have decided to wait at least a year and see where we are then.

[BarceloMayaPalaceBride]

The Economy hasn't really effected us personally (thank God) and we are in our first cycle of TTC.

[Jacobs_Girl]

We actually decided to wait a little, by now we thought we would be in a house but with the economy we are kind of scare in jumping into the housing market. I think we will try again after we do some traveling around the world and settle into a house.

[Hope75]

We're TTC and the economy hasn't played a factor in that decision. We also think there's never a "good time" for kids, and if you wait for it, it may never come! We both have good jobs with marketable skills in case anything should happen, so we thought we'd go for it!

This is how we feel too, and we got pregnant before things really started looking bleak. I think we'll be OK, is there ever a 'perfect' time to have kids?

[L.J.Aguirre]

i mean yeah the economy is in the crapper and i didn't really want kinds till later but victor has been bugging me about a son but whats happened has happened and i told him "we got 9 months to get our act together and make room for this" having said that, we now paid off every single bill already (expect for my car loan) to make it financially better when baby vic arrives and are looking for a house using his interest free va loan. i have a feeling things will be alright especially since i shredded all the credit cards now lol. he also got a second job to help prepare the savings account and i just finished my pharmacy tech... gotta work with what you got!