I don't know if this belongs in this area but I figured I would get the most response from the general lap band public here. I am 27 now and want to finish college before I have children because I know I will just put off finishing again if something like pregnancy and children came along. It is really important for me to finish school so I will be in my early 30's before I feel I will be ready to have children as much as I want them now. My question is how many of you waited until your 30's to have children? I have PCOS due to my weight and feel as the weight comes off that will go away also being that it is a syndrome. I am worried that the longer I wait the harder it will be for me. Am I crazy thinking I will be too old at 30 or 31 to start having children? My husband is 6 years older than me also and wants kids badly when the time is right. Any stories would be helpful of people who waited or didn't wait. I need to weigh my options now. My delima, I have a great paying and steady job now, but I hate the work and the hours. I am going now part time to school to become a teacher that will be a major pay cut, but great hours and I feel will be very rewarding and worth the major pay cut. I could go to work part time for a few years and do the rest of my school plus student teaching and then buy a house, have kids...or I could stay where I am now in route to buy a house this fall and then have kids after that and somewhere fit in school and student teaching somewhere in there down the road and stick with a job that I hate?? I am perplexed and want to wait until Im done with school, but scared I won't be able to have them (babies) if I wait until I'm in my 30's...

Sorry this was rambly, my thoughts are not together today....Any ideas and thoughts would be appreciated.

Holy crap Julie 14 children that your grandmither had starting at 28, WOW! is all I can say to that. I appreciate all of the stories of women having healthy children in their 30's. I do realize it won't be easy with conception, but I have always had the thought that it wouldn't be easy anyways due to the PCOS. After I lose down substantially more, another 60 pounds, I am going to have my doc check for the small cysts again. My gyno just moved so I will have to find an entirely new doc soon, which I am not looking forward to. I've been on birth control for quite some time to regulate and keep the bad stuff at a minimum down there due to the small cysts and I'm hoping with more weight loss that this will all just go away! I didn't get the PCOS until I was over 200 pounds so hopefully getting under it will help it just go away. I did the figuring and I could be done with school in 2 and a half years if I go back full time, this includes the year of student teaching and all. So I will be 30. That is really only 2 years later than I intended and hopefully I can continue to heal my body through weightloss and become healthier with exercise also in the mean time and enjoy my marriage before kiddos come along. There are so many options these days for fertility and I'm sure in 2 and a half years there will be even more updates with that.

Thanks for all of the advice...It's just funny how your life never turns out to follow the timeline you put in place for it!

There was no birth control pill when I was first married, just a diaphragm. Well, that just didn't seem to work and neither did finding the time to say hey wait a minute or 10 I have something to do first I have my own little basketball team of 5 girls, but it got me to thinking. My dad comes from a family of 16 children and my mom from a family of 9. There was a time when huge families were the norm. I had a neighbor before I moved that had 10 children (remember this is Mormon country) and they were the best behaved kids around....at least until they grew up and saw the world, and even then they've all turned out alright. Just got me thinking, my Grandma was 46 when she had her last one and she still never skipped a beat. That was in the day of no washers, dryers, or anything we take for granted today. God Bless our ancestors.

We tried for 11 months to get pregnant with my first - I was 34 when he was born. However, after that - my cycle was like a stopwatch and my daughter was planned almost to the day = ))

I turned 36 2 days after she was born = ))

I was my heaviest the day she was born - can't wait to get my band so I can keep up with the two of them = )))

Good luck!!