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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New to this thread.  My DS is 13 and I am 56.  There are so many reasons to have kids as early in adulthood as possible.  Here's another: having kids gives you time to get your priorities straight, so don't postpone it.  I dithered and waited, thinking my career had to be established first.  But after spending years trying to have a career, I had the kids and finally had the leisure to understand myself better and entirely changed my professional direction.  Point is, if I had had the kids then the career, I would not have wasted time in the wrong profession and I could now have kids in college and pour my full attention into the career.  Having kids in the 20s or 30s is so much more sensible.  [/quote]

My experience was very different. I still think it's better to establish yourself in a career before having kids. Worked 9 years before I had my first, at 34.  I don't think there's a connection between people who choose the wrong career and when they had kids.[/quote]

+1 me too!

I had been in my career 10 years and in a senior position when firstborn came at 35.  It has allowed me to be very flexible.  I WAH full-time and I would not have been able to do this if I had kids first.  I liked being established first vs trying too get ahead in the sleep-deprived, activity filled kid years. I just turned 43 with a 7.5 and just turned 5 year old.  I would prob have started a few years earlier 31-32[/quote]
Not being snarky but this thread is about having babies *after* 40. If you finished having babies a couple years before you turned 40, that is significantly younger.[/quote]

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