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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am really happy OP started this thread because I am 28 (I know not that old) but I feel like we will not be TTC for atleast 2 more years due to some finance type things, and it scared me a bit.

But it looks like most women on here range from starting at 33ish and thats great to see. Thanks for giving me some reassurance!

My mom had 3 by the time I will be TTC.

This is me almost exactly. I'll be 28 in December and when I got married (at age 24) I really thought we'd have one by the time I hit 28. But my husband has had some unexpected (and unavoidable) detours in his career path and it looks like he will be starting a grad program next year. Which means I'll probably be 29 or 30 by the time we TTC. Obviously that's a pretty avg. (or slightly below avg) age around here but it's not what I wanted. It's nice to know I'm not alone.

[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.

Do your Chicago friends have high powered careers and graduate degrees, or not so much?

[Anonymous]

33 and 37

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Number 1 at 22

Number 2 at 25

Number 3 at 27

Number 4 at 30

Number 5 at 34

We might have considered another had age not been a factor. I didn't want to be pregnant after 35.

That's because you started at 22. You had 4 children at 30; I wasn't even married at 30 lol.

[Anonymous]

where do all the moms who started in their 20s live? Because I don't know many - we always feel like the youngest parents in our daughter's classes.

[Anonymous]

Where do these people live?? I am 33 and would like to have a 3rd but we simply can't afford it in this area. We both work full-time and have to in order to stay here close to our families. BTW, I had my first at 30 and just had my 2nd 3 months ago.

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...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do these people live?? I am 33 and would like to have a 3rd but we simply can't afford it in this area. We both work full-time and have to in order to stay here close to our families. BTW, I had my first at 30 and just had my 2nd 3 months ago.

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...

My husband works downtown for the gov't. We live out by the end of a VRE line.

[Anonymous]

Still struggling to have my first, so I'll be happy to be able to post in this thread at some point.

[Anonymous]

36
38

aiming for 40 soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:where do all the moms who started in their 20s live? Because I don't know many - we always feel like the youngest parents in our daughter's classes.

I am curious as well as I neither know nor see on the playground any moms in their early 20s.

[Anonymous]

41
43 and pregnant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Out here everyone starts in their late 30's.

Very interesting.

Do your Chicago friends have high powered careers and graduate degrees, or not so much?

We're in Chicago, #1 at 28 and #2 at 30. We only started that late because our families were against our marriage. We wanted to wait until they were all in terms with each other before introducing children into the "mess". I gave up my high powered career with all my degrees to stay at home and support DH going back to school.

Are you really that insecure about your own choices?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:where do all the moms who started in their 20s live? Because I don't know many - we always feel like the youngest parents in our daughter's classes.

I am curious as well as I neither know nor see on the playground any moms in their early 20s.

I don't know ANY who started in their early 20s - we actually don't know many who started before 30. We had our first at 28 and always seem like the young'uns among the parents anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:where do all the moms who started in their 20s live? Because I don't know many - we always feel like the youngest parents in our daughter's classes.

I am curious as well as I neither know nor see on the playground any moms in their early 20s.

I don't know ANY who started in their early 20s - we actually don't know many who started before 30. We had our first at 28 and always seem like the young'uns among the parents anywhere.

THIS!

[Anonymous]

42

Had m/c at 40.