Would you rather have a baby at 20 or 40?
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Anonymous
+1. Not Catholic but my grandmother and my mother. My uncle was born a month after my parents were married. |
Anonymous
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I had my first at 23 and last at 34. The pregnancy was easier, the labor was easier. I had more energy to do more fun stuff. You are still almost 40 by the time you are done so you are still wiser by the time you have teens. I'd like to watch my grandkids grow up. |
Anonymous
| My mom married at 19 as a college freshman and had me at 21. She had a village -- my grandparents, aunts, uncles -- and my dad who graduate from college the year she graduated from high school, was working full-time. It *can* be done but I was an only child for a good long while. |
Anonymous
Yep my uncle was born when my mom was in college and her older brother had just finished college. |
Anonymous
| 40 |
Anonymous
| 40 |
Anonymous
| 30! |
Anonymous
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20.
(I had mine at 32 & 33) |
Anonymous
| 20 to have the baby and care for it until it can sit up and then 40 for the rest of their childhood. |
Anonymous
| 20. I had my first at 20 and my second at 24. I'm 59 now and there is no way and I'm so glad that I didn't have to deal with teenagers in my 50s. I was hoping I would be a young grandma (not too young) but my kids are not cooperating. |
Anonymous
I think the toddler years require much more physical attention than the newborn years. |
Anonymous
Or, I should say, newborn phase. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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20.
I had my first at 24, second at 28 and third at 32. My energy was tops at 24. I am much more tired at 34. |
Anonymous
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I graduated from college at 22, and law school at 25. I doubt that would have been th case had I gotten knocked up at 20.
I'm 48 now - would it be nice to have kids out of the house already? Sure. But my life would be very, very different. And not in a good way. |