My family have all been on the young side and DH's have all been on the older side when starting a family. Ideally we wanted to wait - DH really wanted to have more time as a couple first and wait at least a year after we were married before trying to have kids. I really wanted a baby NOW LOL, and lucky for me fate intervened and our first baby was born 6 weeks before our first anniversary and I had just turned 23 a few weeks prior. Sometimes I think it would have been nice to have that year to ourselves - a lot of people we know have done that and taken holidays together as well etc, but I'm not unhappy or regretful about it at all. Once we started having the kids, I wanted to have them all by the time I was 30 and DS2 was born when I was 29. Now we're looking forward to when the kids have grown and (hopefully ) left home. We will still be young enough and financially stable enough to do all the things that we couldn't do because of having the kids kwim? I'm loving the idea that I will only be 40 when DS1 finishes school and not even 50 by the time DS2 finishes school.