Only mothers or mothers to be please!!?

Question

I just wanted to know from mothers or mothers to be how do you know when you are ready to have children. Beside being financially stable.

Answer 1

When you have a desire to have a child and make all the necessary changes in your life. Be healthy before you get pregnant. Read and learn about pregnancy and raising a child. Have some back up funds for when the baby is born. Be emotionally ready. They are the greatest things in the world, but very time consuming. You will be responsible for them for the rest of their lives, perhaps not always finacially but emotionally you will be. :)

Answer 2

When you see friends & relatives about same age starting a family & you feel like it as well

Answer 3

emotionally you are ready. i wasnt ready with my first. but for my second i was wanting a nother one same with my third and now this one. it is a feeling i got.

Answer 4

I wanted to bring a child to a loving family. So after my husband and I had been married a year, things were financially stable, but most importantly we loved each other and still do=) Our son was a surprise but we welcomed him with all of our hearts. He's our lil angel. I think you'll know when your ready. It's different for everyone. Good luck to you in the future!

Answer 5

With me it was more of a bond between me and my fiance, I guess when your in love your dream is to start a family and grow together with your own little creations, the yearning to teach and love someone you created.

Answer 6

When I saw the positive pregnancy test.

Answer 7

when i got married :)

Answer 8

I don't think anyone fully knows before it happens. You'll never be 100% ready, but you can do everything possible to be prepared. As soon as you see that positive test, that's it...get ready!!

Answer 9

It's not really a matter of knowing if your ready it's a matter of are you ready for up all nights and dirty diapers and bottles and all the love and attention that comes with HAVING a baby.....I just knew that I was ready and really it was my husband that said hey let's have a baby well we where ONLY supposed to start out with 1 and we got twins on our first try LOL it's been WONDERFUL though it's twice the smiles and twice the giggles, only your baby can make you feel better with just one smile when your having a bad day and only your baby can make you feel like your on top of the world...I think that 25 is a GREAT age to start a family but it varies from person to person just because you have a baby when your 30 dosen't mean you won't have the energy to take care of a little one BELIVE me lol Good luck on your quest I hope you find the answer your looking for!!

Answer 10

I've always wanted to be a Mommy...since I was very young! But I knew I obviously could not raise a child at a young age...I was not stable at all. I needed to grow up more and be financially stable etc etc. I am grateful that I was mature enough to know that I was too young to have a child and now I am 10 weeks along with my first! I am going to be 24 next month and I'm excited as ever and so is the Daddy to be! I guess...I guess you just know!

To be honest, I don't think anyone is ever REALLY ready...but once that baby arrives...you have no choice but to GET ready and FAST! Lol. I can't wait!

Answer 11

i have been ready since five years old. i was forever adopting dolls from salvation army and "nursing" them back to health. now i am in my twenty eighth week of pregnancy.  

Answer 12

you will never be 100 % sure but if you want a family and can truthfully look at yourself and know that you will put the child first i think you can be ready. i lost my first baby at 15 and didn't get pregnant again till i was 30. i wasn't sure i was ready but i was sure he was loved. thats really the best qualification

Answer 13

Well truthfully I wasn't ready just yet but things don't always turn out the way you want them. I am now 19 weeks pregnant and very happy and I don't regret it at all. Some people say they just get that jittery feeling when they are around babies and just get that feeling of having one of your own. My opinion is if your going to wait till your financially stable, your never going to be ready because for some reason or another something always come up. What's best than to have your child that money can never buy.

Answer 14

When you've been trying for 4 years without success... crying yourself to sleep and crying out to God over your sorrow for an empty womb.

Beyond that, things like being financially stable don't count in terms of being "ready" for children.  "Life comes at you fast" and that financial stability can be yanked out from under you at a moments notice.

Answer 15

I think you can never be truly ready, no matter how much you think your prepared, and also being financially stable goes right out the window. My husband and i where trying for 6 long months and now that I'm pregnant, everything has just hit me, but that's normal, you have to take every day as it comes. hope my answer helps you.