Before former “Buffy” sweetheart Sarah Michelle Gellar confirmed she was pregnant with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., the tabloids had a field day (for years) with speculating on when she’d become a mommy. Now that it’s happened, the actress is telling People magazine that it was all worth the wait since she and Freddie are definitely the happiest parents on Earth.

Opening up for the first time to the media after delivering Charlotte Grace into the world on September 19, Gellar says she always had somewhat of a hard time with the media and all her friends always asking her about when she and Freddie would start a family of their own. It’s been like this for seven years, the actress says but, in the long run, neither she nor her husband have regretted taking their time until having a baby.

“I always say, the minute you start dating someone, people ask, ‘When are you getting engaged?’ And the minute you get engaged, they ask, ‘When are you getting married?’ And then the minute you get married, they ask, ‘When are you having a baby?’” Gellar begins by telling People. She and Prinze Jr. have finally answered that last question – not that it mattered in any way that others got their answer because what they got was the greatest gift ever imagined by man.

“Becoming a parent is the most selfless act, and you need to be at a point in your life where you can give up anything and everything for a child. I don’t know if you know how to [do] that when you’re in your 20s. Every day I look at her and I am in awe.” Gellar further says. However, what’s to stop the rumor mill from spinning, the actress asks, only to answer shortly after: nothing. “The minute you have a baby, everyone asks, ‘When are you going to have another one?’” she adds smiling.

Not surprisingly, husband Freddie Prinze Jr. feels the same about not having children while they were still young, saying having a baby while in their 20s is among the biggest mistakes parents can make, in their own view.