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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am another who just doesn't understand having children so late in life. I understand it must be horrible to realize you may never have kids, but it seems so selfish to have a child at 47. I'm 23 and I do all sorts of activities with my mother and we are so close because of it. I doubt she would still be able to do these activities at 73. Which is how old the OP will be when her daughter is my age. Yes the OP could live to be 100, but the chances of her having health issues are so much greater as she gets older. I am so thankful that my mother is healthy and active. How do you think your daughter is going to handle you having a stoke or heart attack before she is even out of school? Not to mention, she is also at a higher risk of health issues because you had her so old. This post is probably going to be deleted, but I just wanted to share how I feel as a 23 year old to have my mom only be in her mid 50's. There are so many things I have to handle right now, but I am so thankful an aging parent isn't one of them.  [/quote]

It obviously depends on the family.  I was 46 when my twins were born.  My mother passed her 80th birthday and her 11 month old twin grandsons attended.  She's ecstatic.  And my mother still has the same drive an energy at 80 that she did at 50.  For 5 days, she had 6 of us living in her house, while another 5 stayed at a local hotel.  She cooked for everyone and was still the family matriarch.  She is still working.  My mother and I are still best friends.  After everyone else turns in, we cook together or we do projects together or we do our own thing and just talk as we do those things.  We are extremely close.

Personally[b] I don't understand how you could have a child at 23?[/b]  I graduated college and traveled and hiked and did outdoors stuff like white-water rafting and rock climbing and did many things that I couldn't possibly do with a family.  I was able to be young and enjoy my youth.  Now, I have no regrets of things that I missed out on because I had a family.  When your kids are in college, are there going to be things that you regretted that you never did when you were young?[/quote]

She did not say she had a baby at 23.  She said her mother was mid-50 and she felt that was a great age (in relation to her being 23) - so this means her mother had her at [b]the age of 32[/b].[/quote]

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