do you ever feel ready to have kids?

I felt ready to have children when I was in my early twenties. I didn't feel at all ready to have children when I was a teenager. I bought my cottage when I was 19 years old. I had my first child at 22 years old. I had a retained placenta after my first son was born. That put me off getting pregnant again for many years. Six years later I got divorced and I moved to a different area. I bought a modern house. I began another relationship and not long into it got pregnant again with my disabled son. I had him born when I was 34 years old. His labor was quick and easy. I thought having my third baby born would be just as easy. So when I was 36 years old my daughter was born and I suffered a severe blood loss. Last year we moved into a bungalow suitable for my son that is in a wheelchair.

I really don't know but I guess you need to feel it that your ready coz i mean we are talking about great deal of responsibility--it is life..it does not rely on instincts.. but having kids does not require you to just have kids when you feel like it..you have to reassess yourself,reflect and realize if your up to this kind of responsibility. If you don't, it's not you who's going to suffer greatly but your kids too.

Never, never, NEVER will I have kids! They cost way too much money to raise and I'm 45 now anyway so it's a bit late. Plus hubby doesn't want them either, fortunately for me!

I did ask myself about this question in 15 years ago. When you are getting older, you have no much time to decide anymore. Whether I like or not, you must have kids at that time so that, you can have sufficient time to grow together with your kids. ha! ha! ha! Before you have kids, you feel doubt to be a parent. After you have kids, then you will realize that you are really ready for them to be your kids. Never be puzzled to this question anymore. Al long as you have a good financial support, just go ahead to have your kids to make a better family.

Yes..very much..Even in my dreams.. But I am considering lots of aspects, because having kids is not that easy. I can say that I am physically and emotionally ready, but financially, i don't think so. but I really enjoy imagining and feeling that I do have kids already.

Yes, I want kids. I currently have one she is 18 months old. I want one more maybe even 2. I really want a boy.

I don't think that there is ever a good time to have kids. Granted, there are better times to have them than others. But you can't always tell. If you can afford them, that's great, but people from poorer backgrounds have them all the time. I am just finishing school, and my husband is having a hard time finding a job, but we are about to have one. No we don't know how we're going to support this child financially, but somehow we're going to make it. And so long as you can do that, and make sure that there's plenty of love, that's all you can really do.

I don't think people are ever really READY for kids. When I got to the point where I wanted a baby, and hubby and I decided it was finally time to do it, after I was pregnant I was wondering almost every day, "What have I gotten myself into!" I've never even been AROUND babies and now I'm going to have one to depend on me! For a long time hubby and I wanted to wait until we could rally afford it, but we realized that it would never happen, that we could never really "afford" it, but we had to have a baby and learn how to budget around him, and that is what we did.

Well, my daughter is a "planned" kid , so yes, both of me and my hubby were ready for kids. I believe you have to be ready before deciding to have any kids, however no need to be too drawn with it because chances are, you'll never have them. There's always a reason that will make you doubt your decision. If you're at least have a day job and physically and emotionally mature enough to have kids, then go for it. We wanted a baby every since the day we got married, but took us 9 months to concieve our daughter. She's now 15 months and the joy of our life Good luck with whatever you decide

I have wanted kids for as long as I can rememeber. And its true that if you wait till you have money to have kids you never will. My husband and I desided to just go ahead and try, we will never have enough money saved for them. we have our first son now, and hope for another baby when he is 2-3yrs old. So we will see. When your ready, I say try.

We were ready as a couple to have kids. I was ecstatic to have a baby but as my due date dawned, I felt I wasn't ready. The idea of having kids is different from having kids in reality. There are times when I feel inept of being a mother but I just try to do my best. Parenthood is not a subject in school and even if it were, some things can only be learned through experience. You will never be ready unless you try. You can only be a parent if you have a child.

I always wanted to have kids and dreamed of having one since I was in my teens. However, we didn't plan for it when I had my son but nevertheless I was too happy to have him in my life. I think when we do plan to have babies it's a little difficult to have them. I've been planning to have a second child since last year since my son is already seven and almost all the people around me are pressuring me to have one but until now I'm still not pregnant. Babies are God's gift so I believe that in time, when it's perfect, I'll have my second child.

oooh, I have the same dilemma, I can't afford to have a child yet even though I like to have one already...but I guess I'll just wait until I'm married to my fiancée and I'm still 21 anyway

i really don't think so that when the time you're ready to have a child, then you can't have one..... i'm not ready yet to have one, like you've said it's hard to raise one kid especially when you're not financially stable yet.... but in due time i will surely plan to have

Yes we where ready or almost ready when we found out we where pregnant. That was a little confusing. We had become engaged and had planned to start trying to have a baby when we actually got married. Well that was 13 months before our wedding. 6 months before our wedding we found out we where pregnant. So the pregnancy was a little early but not so much as to be an issue.