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[quote=Anonymous]I think part of it is just at the upper ages for grandparents there starts to be really big splits based on cognitive and physical decline. No one has had a baby in their 20s in my family since the turn of the century (it's weird. My father was a second born child in the 50s to 44 and 56 year old parents) and 30s has always been the norm. My grandparents were at least in their early 70s when I (first grandchild) was born to mid-30s parents and there were HUGE differences between what 75 looked like. I had one grandmother who was super energetic, healthy, fit, and very helpful and another who was totally over the grandparent thing before it even started. And she seemed SO OLD even though she was similar age to other grandma.

My parents are early 70s and just spent 14 days taking care of my 1 and 3 year old niece and nephew so my brother and his wife could chill in Hawaii and they were like, 'we got this!" and did a bangup job, but that is something that would be totally beyond some of their friends that are less mobile, cognitively there, etc. [/quote]

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