How old were you when you had your first baby and how many did you have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Chicago my friends all had children in their 20's.

Out here everyone starts in their late 30's.

Very interesting.

Same here - also from Chicago.

[Anonymous]

36.5 for #1. 37.5 now and not sure if we're done.

[Anonymous]

My ideal is 26, 29, 32 and then maybe one more before AMA

[Anonymous]

First one at 38. Second one at 41. Had planned for them to be even closer in age, but had 4 miscarriages between DC1 and DC2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Waited over 10 years to have #1 at 47. We're done.

YAY! Just curious -- in the end, what did it take to get pregnant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Waited over 10 years to have #1 at 47. We're done.

YAY! Just curious -- in the end, what did it take to get pregnant?

Donor + IVF

[Anonymous]

32 (1 and 2)
35 (3)

wish I had started earlier because I would have had #4.

[Anonymous]

#1 36

#2 38 (one month before I turned 39)

No m/c, #1 got pregnant on the first month of trying, #2 was an oops - we planned to have 1.

Point being that you can't figure out what will happen to you based on someone else's experience. I fully expected based on everything we read and heard that we would have a tough time conceiving #1 and was about to start looking into our fertility coverage while we burned up our six months of trying before we got referred out to the specialist. Obviously, I never even got to getting the policy out of the file folder...

[Anonymous]

28 #1

30 #2

Am now 35 and looking forward to #2 starting K!

[Anonymous]

#1 33.5

#2 just turned 37

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 #1
22 #2
24 #3
26 #4
28 #5
30 #6
32 #7
33 and 360 days #8

Just turned 35, so now I'm AMA, which makes me so sad. I hope I have a few more rapturous homebirths yet...

GAG

Is this serious?Are you the same person who keeps posting about all her children and wonderful homebirths or are there multiple peopple? The reason I ask is that I am - in the scheme of things - a fairly strong-willed natural birther... BUT... when I hear things like this (ie list of children and then a remark about homebirths) I get the impression that you are having so many children to actually GIVE BIRTH (as opposed to the many things that come after) them. Seems like a different kind of priority and I have a hard time understanding....

[Anonymous]

I'm calling sarcasm as the impetus for the "rapturous homebirth" poster.

Me: 31 and 35, done.

[Anonymous]

29
36
Done!

[Anonymous]

DD #1 at age 40
DD #2 and #3 (twins) at age 43

We're DONE!

[Anonymous]

30, 32, 35, 41 -- #4 was a surprise, but we lucked out -- the only girl and she's a peach

and, yes, we're done -- oldest just graduated from college and we're actually thinking about grandkids -- but not too soon!