My husband and I have been married for nearly eight months. Having both started new jobs within months of the wedding, we didn't have the opportunity (or the cash) to take a proper honeymoon, so we plan on taking the trip of a lifetime on our first anniversary. We're going to spend four days in Paris and then take the train down to the south of France so my husband can SCUBA dive in the Mediterranean. We've decided that when we get home, I'm going to go off of birth control and we'll start trying to get pregnant. We would have liked to have waited for a couple more years and maybe do some more travelling, but I'm turning 29 this month and he's turning 36 the day after. The timing isn't the ideal that I'd imagined in my younger days, but it took me a long time to find such a great love, so we've had to adapt.
I'm trying to prepare myself for the pregnancy and being a mother, and my husband is working hard on preparing the house we purchased this year. I have a whole list of books that I'd love to buy to read up on how to prep for pregnancy, but as I suspect my husband has bought me an Amazon Kindle for my birthday, I haven't ordered any yet. I have made a trip to the library to read a few chapters of "What to Expect Before You're Expecting" which recommends taking pre-natal vitamins a whole year before beginning efforts to conceive. I wasn't quite that on the ball, and every other source I've found says that 3 months is enough, so I'm splitting the difference. I'm almost to the end of my first bottle of prenatal vitamins (with DHA). Every day that I take one, I feel like I'm that much closer to my goal of holding a baby in my arms.
