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[quote=Anonymous]Just chiming in to add my perspective. I'm 40 but most of my social circle is a few years older, because I had a baby relatively young - 30 - for someone living in the city and working full-time. So I ended up socializing with moms a few years older than me. I live in the city and I think that is a slightly different crowd than the OP sees.

Third babies are starting to crop up a lot among women I know 40-43 or so. In most cases it's a "why not" baby that comes ~5 years after the first two. It totally feels like a flex, even if they don't mean it that way. Their financial, professional, and personal lives are together enough that they can add a 3rd.

In my circles everyone is a dual earner household and the men are equal if not more active parents. In fact, of my four closest friends, three are the breadwinners. One acquaintance tried going down to part-time and she said she was alone with the nannies at the playground all day, so she went back to work. I think I might live in a bubble though, judging by what I read on DCUM.

I'd say that professionally and financially, my friends are killing it. And they are all great parents with great kids. Also, people travel a lot and go out often - weekly babysitters for big fun nights out are typical. What I don't see is the fitness flex. I mean, people work out but it's more like a few peloton classes a week so you don't die young. Nobody is really flexing their fitness. I guess something has to give.
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