Are you waiting to have a baby because of the economy?

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  Posted by BlueWaterBaby Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:14am PDT

  I'm 5 months pregnant, there has been somewhat of a baby boom here in the county I live in, seems like all of my girlfriends are or just was pregnant. Its funny, all of us having babies here right now, were all prego at the same time about 4 years ago too, I guess we all drank the same water cuz all of us are pregnant the same year again! As broke as we are, we did plan it. Times were tough before "times got tough" and so being frugal and trying to save every way we can is just a way of life in the norm for us. There are certain factors of the economy that has effected us, but for the most part we are just as broke as we have always been and we know that the only way for us to prepare for a baby is knowing for sure there is one on the way. Good luck to all you preggers out there!! Congrats!

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  Posted by Jess Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:25am PDT

  My husband & I have been married 7 1/2 years and were hoping ot start a family soon but now we have decided to wait till the economy gets better. Luckily I am only 27 and I feel I have time to wait.

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  Posted by Brianne Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:46am PDT

  We sure are.... he lost his job and can only find very very modest work. Not enough to support a baby and ourselves and live a life style that we're comfortable in.

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  Posted by Sassired8 Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:11am PDT

  We want another but the economy and credit card debt has us on hold...

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  Posted by MonkeyS Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:30am PDT

  well im the breadwinner. and i couldnt take any unpaid leave to have the kid. so there ya go. guess the economy does affect me that way. my honey has a job but his entire monthly paycheck doesnt even cover the mortgage.

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  Posted by noahs mommy Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:39am PDT

  We are waiting to have our second till we are more financially stable. I would love to have another one but my brain wont let me until I feel our family could handle it for sure.

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  Posted by nothingelseinperris Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:19pm PDT

  I got pregnant when the economy started affecting our jobs first my husband was unemployed for two months then I got hours taken away from my job so If this would have started happening before I got pregnant I would have definatly waited even though we are in our thirty's and had waited a while to have kids, I still would have preferred to wait a bit longer.

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  Posted by laurens Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:35pm PDT

  All I see in the area I live in are unwed mothers with $8 an hour jobs or no job at all getting knocked up and living off of the government. Why wait when you can just leach off of everyone who pays taxes??? Personally, I'm disgusted by the number of people who go and have kids when they are uneducated and not making any money, but they still do it. It seems to me that it's always the people who should probably not reproduce (because they're crack-heads or inbred idiots) that end up with 5 or 6 kids...

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  Posted by Lauren Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:31pm PDT

  My husband quit his job in December to go back to school since I had just graduated (we are 27/28); we had planned on him graduating in May of 2010 and starting our family then. We can't now, since he has to go back to work, he has to wait until I can find a job to go back AGAIN. My body and heart are ready, but our minds and bank accounts are not.

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  Posted by star45 Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:36pm PDT

  I am 43 years old woman do have I a baby?

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