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2nd Trimester
NewlyWeds13
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random question-- what is an "normal" grandma age for you?
NewlyWeds13
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I mean 1st time grandma.
For me I would say... 55 to 65 would be most likely for the people that I know.
45 to 70 falls within "normal" to me
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Re: random question-- what is an "normal" grandma age for you?
50-60
My initial thought was 50's.
I know we are older than many on this board (but IRL most people I know don't have kids until 33 at the earliest, I think it is just regional and or custom)... but if my parents were alive they would be 66 and 71.
DH's parents are 65 and 68.
I would guess the averge is younger than us... but I guess I don't know many people who had kids under 25 or so... and their parents were 22 or so... so I can see the 43 or 45 as the young part.
having a grandchild under 40 seems so hard for me, since it would mean 2 generations of kids under 20 which is this day and age seems unlikely to be the norm (maybe in some regions) but not nationally I would think.
So maybe I would even widen it to be 40 to 70?
My mother was 38 when MY DD was born and My father was 42
They were 19 and 23 when they had me... My mom also has 3 other kids from her current marriage. Those kids are 12, 11 and 9. My grandmother will be 67 in March! They are SO young!
Both the ILs however are pushing 60.
A- 09/2006 I- 04/2010 N- 04/2012 M & G- 01/2014
My mom is 64 and my dad is about to turn 72...
I'm the youngest in my family... My IL are probably in their upper 50s
My bio mom is 42 and my bio dad is 44. My adoptive parents are 47 and 53.
Everyone on my bio mom's side is really young. My great grandma just turned 78 in August. My grandma is 62.
I am the oldest on that side (22) and this is the first grandchild, great grandchild, and great-great grandchild. They're super excited.
I think typical age is 50-60.
My parents were 41&42 when they became grandparents. my mom had me when she was 18 and I had my 1st when I was 23.
My inlaws are 54 & 63, they became grandparents @ 37 & 46. The 37 year old is actually not the blood grandfather but he was married to the granmother for 10 years before they became grandparents. They now have 16 grandkids and one on the way!
Both sets of our parents were young when they had us. My mom always said she wanted to be 40 before she becomes a grandma. My mom will be 41, my dad will be 44, MIL will be 38, and I'm not sure about FIL but he's in his mid 40s. I think everyone is happy with the ages they are becoming grandparents b/c they are still young enough to get around and play with the baby.
I think this just depends on so many factors. Average age of getting married, and then how long people wait to have kids. Are people finishing post secondary education etc.
Here in Canada the average age of first marriage is 28 or 30 with kids shortly thereafter. But I know that this varies from country to country and likely state to state.
I am the youngest of 6 kids- my sister is 18 years older than me and her daughter is 7 years younger than me. My niece had a baby last year, making my sister a Grandmother at 50 (and me a great aunt at 32). But I would say that is young around here. On the other side of that my Mother is 75- so she became a great grandmother at 73 and yet is now having another grandchild at 75.
In general I would say 50 ish use to be normal- but I think as people start having families later in life (in their 30's instead of their 20's) that age has gone up- and will likely continue to do so.
My mother became a grandmother at age 57, my father was 65. They are now 63 and 70.
My MIL will be 63 and FIL will be 68. My FIL isn't sure about he feels about becoming a grandfather. LOL! For the record, he is not a young 68 year old, he's actually in poor health.
My MIL had my DH when she was 18--got pregnant in high school. She will be 46, and that seems really young to me. My parents are 59 and 58 (though this isn't their first, because they adopted children who were much older). I think of that as more normal.