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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I feel like quite the odd ball for having my first at (just barely) 28. I met DH at 19 though, married him at 22, was done with grad school by 26, and we had a half dozen really solid international vacations under our belt at that point. We own a house, 2 cars, have a savings account. I wanted to wait, but I'm not sure what I wanted to wait for. I guess just not feeling like I was being judged for being "too young" anymore.

I have a feeling if I lived anywhere else, I wouldn't have had a problem with it. It's the DC mentality of 45 being more normal than 25 to have a kid that threw me for a loop.

OP here. I feel like I'm in this exact situation. I'm 28, but met my DH right out of college and we've been married for several years.

I get push back from everyone outside of DC on why we don't have kids, but everyone in DC thinks we are WAY too young. It's definitely a different mentality and I hate how I feel pulled between the two sentiments.[/quote]

I'm one of the other PPs who had a baby at 29, and say if you feel ready, go for it. For us, there was no compelling reason NOT to have kids at the point we were at in life, and even though we were one of the only ones of our friends to do so at the time, five years later everyone else is starting to join us. Now we're the ones they come to for advice, and we're secretely glad that they're the ones stuck in the trapped-at-home infant and toddler stage while we are emerging from the other side! Plus, especially with our first baby, it was pretty easy to maintain much of our social life. It was when the second kid came along that our life became much more kid-centric, but by that point others in our circle were having babies too.

Plus, I like the fact that I'll still be on the young side when our kids flee the nest and have children of their own. [/quote]

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