Those in your 40s and 50s, if you had kids later in life, do you regret it?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t regret it but some things about it are harder than they would have been if I’d become a mother at a younger age. Much less energy, perimenopause colliding with teen hormones, etc. Plus it’s not always a straight line to post secondary education and independent adulthood, something that didn’t occur to me before. Yes, I’m dumb.

How old were you when you had them? I was 30 and 32 (so not over 35) and now, at 48, I am starting to deal with perimenopause and they are still teens (older one is leaving for college this year but younger one is still in the thick of high school). I definitely wasn’t ready/able to have children earlier so I would think this would be hard to avoid.

By DC standards you were young when you had your kids. I had mine at 29, 31, and 34 and for the first two I was often 10 years younger than all/most other moms at my kids schools. Granted they went to private school where I think parents tend to be older, but still.