How old are you?

spainy17 · August 2014

And where do you love?

Maybe it's because I'm old it maybe because I live in the Midwest but all of thus talk about being the only one of your friends to have a kid makes me feel ancient! I'm 31, 32 I'm November and DH will be 34 this week. We live in Wisconsin and maybe we procreate early here but we are one of the last ones to have kids!

My two best friends have two kids each and one also had two step kids. I have two close friends with none but they are also the only two out of the huge group that aren't married. I'm just amazed because we were late to the party. :-)
. Anyway, I was just curious if I'm the oldie on the board. :-)

spainy17 · August 2014

Live, not love. Dumb autocorrect. :-)

sarums4 · August 2014

37 today (it's my bday!). You're NOT old!! We're a little late to the party, too, but it was our choice--we had a great 10 years of marriage BEFORE having kids, and I wouldn't change anything.

OhBaby+2013 · August 2014

Happy Bithday @sarums4! I will be 33 later this month and DH turned 35 today. A few of DH's friends have kids, but most of mine do not. We live near Toronto and its fairly common for people o wait into thir 30's. Most of my friends from high school who live in my Morton (very small) had kids in their 20's. DH and I were together 8 years before getting engaged and 10 before getting pregnant.

chrissynena · August 2014

DH and I are both 37, soon to 38 in the next couple of months. We live in Michigan.

My close friends all have kids hitting double digits, we are the only ones with littles in that group. None live near us so that's ok. I do have some friends thru work that have small children, so that's nice.

littleheaven · August 2014

i'm 35 and dh is 38 so we were pretty late to the game too

so, not old....dh is old

and we're from new jersey

AshleyDehaven · August 2014

I am 24 and DH is 25. We live in TX, but are from WA, and got pregnant in CA. Lol.

spikeinc · August 2014

Kids! You are not old. I am 42 and h is 35. I am pretty sure I am the oldest along with one or two others on our month board who are close to my age. I am from California where it seems everyone starts late though now that I am living in atlanta most if my friends with kids are around my age too.

spainy17 · August 2014

Ok glad I'm not old! Here in small town Midwest most people pop then out early I guess! I'm glad DH and I waited too, we have been together nine years. My two friends were married and made their first babies by 23 so I feel old even though we are really not. It would suck to be the first parents though. At least bringing up the rear means everybody already gets it and my girlfriends and I just plan things father ahead since we are busy and have play dates. Your friends will catch on eventually... I did once I had kids, I apologized to my friends who did for not understanding! :-)

sully1109 · August 2014

I'm 33, DH is 35. I was 31 when I had DD. We live in the Bay Area, California but are originally from Southern California. My oldest/closest friends are all married but only 2 of us have kids, the other 2 do not.

emja0214 · August 2014

I just turned 28 and DH is 29. We live in Illinois. We have been married for 4 years, but together for 11 years. We are the only ones in our circle of friends with a kid/one on the way. Others are married with no kids or single. I agree that many are having kids later in life now, but definitely not old!

ungraceful13 · August 2014

I'm 27 and DH is 29. We were 25 and 27 when DD was born and that is pretty young in our circle of friends minus the ones that had kids while in college.

JJsMum · August 2014

I'm 33, DH is 36 this month. We live in the Pacific Northwest. I was 29 when DS#1 was born. We didn't wait long after getting married to have kids, but were together almost 5 years before getting married. Luckily, we seem to be about average age for having kids around here. Although most of our friends think we are absolutely nuts for having more than 2 kids.

URMySunshine77 · August 2014

@sarums4 happy birthday!

sarusm4 and @chrissynena: I'm also 37! My birthday was in mid-July.

I am in the Bay Area, and most of the moms I see are late 30's.

gagirl2004 · August 2014

Im 31 will be 32 in February and DH is 32 we live 30 mins south of Atlanta in Newnan Georgia. All of my friends have 6-8 year olds.

Kara13360 · August 2014

Im 32 and my husband is 36. We live in western ny and everyone I know has kids except for very few.

gagirl2004 · August 2014

I forgot to add happy birthday @sarums4‌. I have been married to DH for 10 years this month, we have been together for 15 years all together.

AshleyDehaven · August 2014

JJsMum said:

I'm 33, DH is 36 this month. We live in the Pacific Northwest. I was 29 when DS#1 was born. We didn't wait long after getting married to have kids, but were together almost 5 years before getting married. Luckily, we seem to be about average age for having kids around here. Although most of our friends think we are absolutely nuts for having more than 2 kids.

@JJsMum - What part of the PNW? We are moving back to Bellingham in 11 days! ^_^ So glad to be going home.

DCKate · August 2014

None of you are old! I am 31 and DH is 32. We are both originally from WI, spent he last 5 years in DC and now love in Chicago!

ConstanceGoodspeed · August 2014

32 and the northeast. My friends are still getting married and a few have a baby.

Myaflowers · August 2014

I'm 37 and DH is 36. I was almost 36 when DD was born. Having a LO makes me feel younger than ever! DH and I were together 12 years before DD was born. Most of our friends have children much older than DD, but my BFF also has a one year old (also her first), so that's nice. I live in the South (Alabama). Waiting until you're older to have kids is definitely not the norm here.

ReeceFamily · August 2014

I turned 45 last Friday. Im in CA where I think older moms are pretty common! Most of my friends are in their mid-to-late 30s and have 1 or 2 kids. So if you are feeling old, just pack up and move to California! I recently said f it and decided to stop dying my gray, so you will look like a baby next to me

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this decaf life · August 2014

I was 24 when DD was born. My sister was 20 when she had her first, 22 with her second. My SIL is 27 and currently pregnant.

We were the first of our friends to have kids and so far the only.

cozybluebear · August 2014

I'm 29. My first baby was born when I was 27 and I'll still be 29 when this one is born. I was probably one of the last people in my graduating class to have children but I was okay with that. I focused on traveleing... experiencing new places and people. I finished college and experienced amazing career opportunities. I just feel like these are things I needed in life before I was content with settling down.

Mom2anAngel2 · August 2014

I'm 36 and DH is 42. We live in New England. We have a mix of friends who had friends earlier and those that waited until they were in their 30's. I do think that today it is very common for people to want to be settled into a career and financially before having kids. I know that in the past being pg in your 30's was considered to be ancient, but today I think it is pretty normal.

jobiann · August 2014

Both MH and I turn 35 at the end of this year. Most of our friends have kids who are also hitting double digits already. We didn't get married until we were 29. We live in Iowa, land of corn, home of the Iowa Hawkeyes (college football).

aklawrence1 · August 2014

I'm 27, DH is 35. We live in central NC. I only have a couple of friends with kids; my closest friends don't have any yet. But I think that's my circle of friends, because I see tons of young people out and about with kids.

RN2011 · August 2014

Nope, not an oldie. My DH and I are both 34 and we have 18 month old and 1 on the way. I got married at 31 after what felt like an eternity of dating ( j/k it was only 5 years). We live in NY but most of out family and friends are in NJ. I feel like we are the last of our group to start our family but we still have a few that are either not married or recently just got married.

ambmama · August 2014

I'm 28 and H is 35. I live outside of Philadelphia but we aren't from here which is why we have no other friends with kids!

ohiodoxiemama08 · August 2014

I'm 28 and DH is 29 almost 30. I was 26 almost 27 when DD was born. We live in the midwest. Most of my college friends don't have kids yet (some of them don't want to) but we do have lots of neighbors with kids and many of my husband's co-workers have kids around DD's age which is nice.

ETA: We were married for just over 2 years when we had DD. My sister and her hubby were married for 5 before they had their son and she's 31. But she's also a pediatrician. I think it depends on life situation around here. But most people tend to have kids around 30.

BabyHope2013 · August 2014

I am 30 and DH is turning 31 next month. Glad to see that there are so many people on this board around my age.

JJsMum · August 2014

AshleyDehaven said:

JJsMum said:

I'm 33, DH is 36 this month. We live in the Pacific Northwest. I was 29 when DS#1 was born. We didn't wait long after getting married to have kids, but were together almost 5 years before getting married. Luckily, we seem to be about average age for having kids around here. Although most of our friends think we are absolutely nuts for having more than 2 kids.

@JJsMum - What part of the PNW? We are moving back to Bellingham in 11 days! ^_^ So glad to be going home.

We are just east of Seattle. I love it up here! I spent more years than I care for in the desert (Phoenix area) and it was such a relief to come back home to the PNW. I hope your move goes well! I've actually spent a fair amount of time in Bellingham, and can't believe how much it's grown!

court115 · August 2014

I'm 26 and DH is 27. It's kind of a toss up around here though. Some people have kids really young and others wait. Most of our friends have kids but a lot of our friends are older than we are.

bennikki · August 2014

I'm turning 31 in two weeks, and DH just turned 35. I was 29 when I had DS, and most of my friends have kids, and a few have kids entering grade school, but most of those were "unplanned" kids. I have 3 friends (but we aren't super close) who have kids that are becoming teenagers, but that was certainly not planned. We live and are from MN. We dated for 9 months before we got engaged, and then we got married a year later (certainly not common for my area, most date for years, often starting in high school before they get engaged). We waited a year before we started TTC, but it took nearly 4 years before we finally welcomed DS. My one friend who doesn't have kids has been dealing with infertility for the last 5 years. They'll welcome their first child 2 months after DS2 arrives. So, technically I think MN gets bundled into the Midwest, but most of my friends waited until they were fairly close to 30 before they started having kids. Those that had them before 25 have said many times they wish they had been more careful with the birth control.

My sister and her husband started having kids right after they got married when my sister was only 22, but her DH is 10 years older than her, they hope to have 3 kids, and her DH doesn't want to be 40 and having a newborn which I get, but it has certainly been stressful to not only get used to married life but also children so quickly (my sister has fallen pregnant the first month of trying for her last two pregnancies).

Tanda711 · August 2014

I'm 30 and DH is 29. I'm from Northern California but live in Athens, GA. In CA a lot of my friends aren't even married yet but in GA everyone has kids, many that are much older than DS. I got married at 25 which is young for CA but the average or older for being in the South.

holly52 · August 2014

My husband and I are both 30... He just turned 30 and i'll be 31 in November. We had DD when I was 29 and he was 28. We live in Northern California. I know a lot of people who had kids really early like high school and early 20's and I also know a lot who waited till mid 20's - mid 30's. We've been together since we were 17 so we waited a long time, but I'm happy we did. I got all of my partying out of the way lol.

portentosa · August 2014

I'm 30, DH is 33 and we live in Central CA. I only have two friends that are having their kids around now, and neither live in the same state as me anymore. I had a friend get pregnant about a month before DS was born and the other is due in September like I am... with twins! The vast majority of my friends still don't have kids.

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