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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a normal age for this area. When I had a kid at 27 I was the first in my social circle to have one and I was always the youngest parent at every event for families... which is weird because 27 is really not some crazy young age to have kid in most parts of the country, but here people acted like I was basically a teen mom. Someone even once told me that I'd had a kid "so young!" and "Good for you not letting social norms dictate your decisions!" And I was thinking... is it really that abnormal? The person telling me this had her first kid at 36, I believe.[/quote]

I had my two at 26 and 29 and I would get scoffed at like a teen mom (not that scoffing at any parent is ok!) even though I had been with DH for 10 years and married for 2.5 years when we had our first. Plus we already owned a SFH and had very much planned for our kids. It was a hilarious dynamic when I joined a new moms group and they all thought I was this young inexperienced heathen, but I'm actually a career doula so it quickly flipped to them asking for my phone number and me getting slammed 24/7 with questions about bathing, swaddling, sleep schedules, latching issues, pumping issues, childcare, transitioning to solids, etc.[/quote]

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