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There have always been older mothers. Not too many generations ago women started having kids in their late teens when they married and had them until their early 40s when menopause stopped things.

My mother was born to my grandmother when she was 40 -- this would have been in the mid 1920s.

These young, insecure DCUM moms who try to shame women in their late 30s through 40s should open a history book once in a while. [/quote]

Absolutely correct. Older moms are nothing new. My grandmother had seven children, her first in 1941 at age 25 and her last in 1959 at age 43. My MIL was 42 when she had her youngest (my DH) in 1965.

What IS new is older [i]first time[/i] moms. But I can't see how that matters one way or another. If anything the older first time mom is in a better position--not already worn out from raising the older children.[/quote]

The difference is when your grandmother (and others like her) died, they left a bunch of older siblings for the youngest.  Now when first time moms in their 40s die, they're not leaving any sort of older, mentor-like person for the kids.  My dad is the youngest of seven and his older siblings are almost parental type figures to him.  He's not alone in the world.[/quote]

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