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[quote=Anonymous]MD/PhD, during fellowship and as an attending (35 & 38)

Factors for me:

I only wanted (initially) one kid, so starting earlier didn’t seen urgent, and tbh I wasn’t set on having kids til my early 30s.

I really, really wanted to have time to spend early years with them

I fast tracked so got to the non-clinically demanding part of fellowship a year earlier which helped

My husband is also a physician, and we didn’t live super near either set of grandparents, and none of them were retired at the time. The cost of a nanny when we were both trainees would have been almost prohibitive, but was doable when I was a fellow/he was an attending.

There are times I wish I’d had my kids younger, but there are not times I wish I’d had to parent through residency/fellowship. My don (6) remembers my first year as an attending, when I did a lot of inpatient work, as the year I wasn’t home for dinner and worked weekends. It was three years ago, as I stopped doing inpatient work when my daughter was born (still FT, but no call/weekends).

I would rather parent at 38 with flexibility and $$$ than at 33 with neither, but that is a personal choice. If you have fam $$ and/or fam around to help raise the kids, you may chose differently.

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