I just married into the Navy last month, and his friends are joking and betting on when I'll be pregnant. Yikes! We don't want to have kids for a few more years, but it seems to be a popular trend that military wives - or even newlyweds in general - are getting pregnant soon after they get married! Just would like to hear your stories:) Thanks!|||I was in the military when I had my first two children, and now I am a military spouse and have just had my third. DO NOT rush into having children especially if your husband is in the military and could be deployed. Make sure you are OK with his work schedule and with him possibly being gone for long periods of time (at which time you become a single parent). I truly believe that too many women get pregnant too soon and then they become overwhelmed and can not handle what the military has to offer. Yes we have medical and a guaranteed paycheck and free housing if you choose it, but we don't always have a spouse. If you don't have personal experience with the military (ie you are prior military or maybe a parent was) don't rush it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is OK to wait. Get to know your husband and build a relationship as husband and wife. Marriage changes relationships, give yourselves time to figure out what the new relationship as husband and wife has to offer. Go out and have fun, spend time just the two of you. Once you have kids you have made a life time investment and they are with you always, even if they are with Grandma and Grandpa you are still wondering if they are OK and if they are missing you as much as you are missing them (even when you are alone and having fun)!!|||Fellow navy wife here. And i was pregnant before the wedding (the wedding was planned before i was pregnant.) Also look out for when they first get back from deployments (babies 2 and 3). Good luck.|||I am a Military wife, and I found out that I was pregnant while my then, fiance had just joined the Army and was doing basic training. We already had a wedding planned for later that year, for after he graduated for basic training. So we just waited for the wedding day since everything was all set up and I got married when I was 6months pregnant.
It may be a popular trend, but I do know many people that are Military wives that are waiting til they feel that they are ready. I've heard a lot of people say that they just do it to get extra money, and that is just aweful. I think if you want to wait, you ought to. There is no need to have a baby if you and your husband aren't ready. But for when you are ready, being a mommy is the BEST.|||I'm not a military wife, but I got pregnant about 9 months after we got married.|||We got married in 2000 right out of boot camp, got pregnant couple of years after we got married. It was twins and I found out about a month after he went on float (6 months on a ship going to different ports) that I was 2 1/2 months so by the time he got back I was 8 months. He then left to go to Iraq in 2003 just before they were born. I also had a 4 year old (long story) when the twins were born.|||ive been married almost 2 years and my husband is in the air force. when we got married there were people that worked with him that they were doing the same thing. they were jocking and betting but nothing happened! it is very common though that military wives have kids soon, i'm 20 and i dont have any kids yet but there are soo many moms i see on base that they're younger than me! it's sort of a feel a protection and stability i guess. specially if you're stationed far from home like i am. people kinda expect you to be pregnant cuz 'it's normal ' to have babies right after you get married! me and my husband are still going to wait a lil bit longer to have kids. it will suck during deployments and tdys. but the base helps alot with these things. well i hope i answered your question!|||We decided to be different, I got knocked up a month after meeting him (we just knew it was love) I was stationed in WA and he was in NC, I got out and moved in with him when I was 6 months, we got married when she was 5 months. Call us crazy!!!!!!!!|||My hubby isn't in the military, but we got pregnant on our wedding night! The only person I know that's in the military is my cousin's husband, they didn't get pregnant for about 5 or 6 years.|||I'm not a military wife but we found out i was pregnant 2 days before our wedding.|||i don't know anyone in the military, but most of my cousins were pregnant within the first year of their marriage.
i personally waited until we were married for 2 and a half years, and i am currently 10 weeks pregnant with our first child.|||I'm a military brat. My mom got pregnant on the honeymoon at disneyland. What was worst about it was she was still stationed in Texas while my dad was in hawaii, and she didn't get her transfer until she was 6 months along. So they had a total of 3 married months living together before kids, and she was in her 3rd trimester. Now finally all of the kids are out of the house and they get to live as a couple instead of parents!|||I'm a military wife. My hubby is in the Army. I found out I was pregnant before my hubby joined boot camp. So he finished up boot camp and his AIT and we are still living apart now because we are waiting on the baby to get here.|||my husband is in the navy and we fell pregnant for the first time 3 months after we were married. Unfortunatly i had a miscarriage at 5 weeks. But now im am 7w1d pregnant. My husband is now getting out of the navy in september because he doesnt want to miss out on anything. The birth. 1st steps,words, birthdays christmases. He is very excited like me.|||Five years after we got married.
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