'Kay, let's try this again... with all the options this time!
Curious to see where our group falls in the stats. While I know the average age that women are starting family has gone up generation over generation so lets see what our numbers looks like.
Personally I'll be 29 when LO arrives and while among my friends I'm considered to be getting a "late" start, I don't really see myself as "old". Mind you both my parents were 34 when I came around (only child)
How old were you when you had/will have your first child? (Take 2 because I'm a moron) 296 votes
@Christeng87 I personally don't like to use the whole early, mid, late thing but it is a pretty easy set to measure something like this :P
How old you are and how "old" you feel are two totally different things to me. When I was living in a condo we had a neighbour who couldn't have been over 50 that everyone in the building (including the 80 year old lady down the hall who reminded me of Betty White) called her the "old bag".
I'm 24 and everyone keeps telling me how I'm too young to be a mom, but this reaction was not a surprise at all. I heard the same thing about being too young to get married at 23 (even though DH and I have been together since 9th grade). I'm far and away the youngest of my friends to have a baby.
I'm a FTM turning 30 in November. I wanted to start trying about 2 years ago but we wanted to save a little more. Well, 2 years later, we realized we weren't getting any richer so to heck with it. It's baby time!
I was 21 when I had DS. I was 7 months pregnant with him when I turned 21 and my doc told me have a glass of wine. I'll never forget walking into the liquor store with his dad and the looks the patrons and employees gave me, but damnit, I wanted to use that wonderful "of age" drivers license!
I'll be 31 when LO is born. DH is 38. In my culture (European) women marry and have kids young, so according to my grandparents I'm starting very old lol good thing I grew up in Canada!
I was 32. One of the first of my friends. Now at 34 I'd say about 1/2 my friends are starting families.
I will be 34. I found that most of my friends are having kids now in their early to mid-30s similar to your experience @ICarriedAWatermelon. My little sister (1 year younger) and all of her friends were in their early to mid 20s.
Re: How old were you when you had/will have your first child? (Take 2 because I'm a moron)
(I'm one of those women who postponed marriage and kids for education and career.)
BFP #1: 4/2/12 -- DD born 12/15/12. BFP #2: 4/1/14 -- CP. BFP #3: 4/28/14 -- EDD 1/10/15
Jan 15 NOV siggy challenge:
@Christeng87 I personally don't like to use the whole early, mid, late thing but it is a pretty easy set to measure something like this :P
How old you are and how "old" you feel are two totally different things to me. When I was living in a condo we had a neighbour who couldn't have been over 50 that everyone in the building (including the 80 year old lady down the hall who reminded me of Betty White) called her the "old bag".
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my first- I was 29
my second I will be 33, a couple months short of 34
A kiss he will never forget- Disney World 2014
TTC #1 since 5/2010 dx: annovulatory
RLP: 2/2012: normal HSG 3/2012: normal
BFP #1 7/20/11 M/C 7/25/11. BFP #2 11/29/11 M/C 12/21/11
I have two angel babies that I will see again one day
BFP #3 10/27/12 EDD: 7/6/13
Baby Emma arrived at 35 weeks by surprise on June 3rd, 2013!!
BFP #4: 5/23/14 EDD: 1/30/15 Emma's gonna be a big sister!
Beta #1 19DPO: 213 Beta #2 21DPO: 674
DSS: 15 DS: 7
DD born 1/3/15
I am now 19 years old expecting my second child in January.
27......is this a horrible age. Cause that means that I am really in trouble.