My mom started at 31 and had five healthy children, all naturally. Nine (!) miscarriages though. I’ve never asked, but I assume my parents didn’t use birth control. I know they wanted as many as came. Not my plan, but they’ve always seemed very happy and I love having lots of siblings.

I had my first at 38, my second at 40, and my third a few months ago at 43.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume three isn't large but we started at 35 so 3 took some fast work without twins.

Hi, what is the age gap between the 3?

Two years and three years.

Thank you. I'll give birth to my first at 34 and would love at least one more - DH wants two more. This gives me hope

You're ahead of the game. Here's my actual breakdown, because I said 35 but that's how old I was when I got pregnant.
I gave birth at
early 36
38
41

What you want to do is start having unprotected sex when the first is a year. You can ramp it up to actually ttc a few months after that. My mistake was waiting until the second was 2 to start trying. If I could do it again, I would start earlier on the third. You have more time than I did, however.

Bad idea for number 2. My first took a year to conceive with a miscarriage from 8-10 months so I thought by 37 it would take longer. Nope. Pregnant in 3 weeks of trying. I really don’t recommend trying unprotected until you’re really ready for it.

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Anonymous wrote:6 kids, a set of triplets, a set of twins and a single. Each set is a year and a half apart. I had a tummy tuck.

I call bullsh$t.

While I'm sure it isn't the pp. I do know someone with that combination.
http://mottmultiples.blogspot.com/?m=1

Those poor kids! They are teens/preteens & their mother is still publicly blogging about them? How disrespectful of their privacy! And she still calls them things like “littles”!

Gosh I wish we had the money to have 3 or more kids. It's kind of hard not to feel jealous of the big families.

Pp here. The intervals weren’t exactly two years - it’s about 9.5 years from my aunt to my mom (two boys in between)

My grandmother had 4 children. She got married in the mid 1930s at 29 years old. Her first was born about 1.5 years later (so 30 or 31), 2nd 2 years later, 3rd 2 years after that, and my mom 6 years later (at age 40).

Twins at 31, Singleton at 33, Singleton at 35

3 kids, first at 38

Had my first at 29, second at 31 and third arrives in 5 weeks at 34. We are done with 3, but I am sure I could have 1 or 2 more if we had more money and more patience (I got pregnant first time with all 3)

I know a couple who did that. Fertility problems and had help, 4 girls one after another, all with help but the last. Wife said, if they will do that, she wants a big family. However, her husband was with oil company overseas and they made sure they were in countries where they had drivers, nannies, house-help galore. Another couple, after 30 had 3 more kids in addition to 2 they had in early 20s. Another couple 2 in 20s, twins in 40s, also very happy family. They all seem happy with their choices.
Unless you think more than 4, 5 kids, in which case, I don't know anyone but one Mormon couple, also overseas ,one kid had Down, and while pregnant with 4th Dad had a nervous break down and had to quite and they moved in with grandparents. How about you take it one kid at a time and see how it works?

Anonymous wrote:Pp here. I live in Frederick. Sorry for horrible spelling issues!! And yes, I was surprised at the large families here at first but now it seems normal.

I live in Frederick too and we are going for a fourth. Pretty sure all our friends in other places will think we’re insane.

I got married at 33 and had my first child at 34. I'm now 46. I have 5 kids...12, 10,9,7 and 6. All conceived naturally. After the 5th, I started to use birth control.

Anonymous wrote:I started mine at the age of 42. Hubby and I initially didn’t want to have kids till we settled down a bit. Then we had a hard time conceiving. When I did it was triplets (3 girls!) the first go! We had a son two years later. And I’m pregnant again! As long as your healthy, lead an active lifestyle you’ll be okay!

This is impressive but please don't spread misinformation. There is no relationship between fertility and "healthy lifestyle" (though being fit will make pregnancy easier). Also, nobody can guarantee that they will be healthy even next year let alone 10 or 15 years from now (even if they are very young at the moment). Apparently healthy people in their thirties and forties get terrible diseases and die. It's not very likely but it's not like it's unheard of.

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Anonymous wrote:I started mine at the age of 42. Hubby and I initially didn’t want to have kids till we settled down a bit. Then we had a hard time conceiving. When I did it was triplets (3 girls!) the first go! We had a son two years later. And I’m pregnant again! As long as your healthy, lead an active lifestyle you’ll be okay!

wow! did you use the same donor each time?

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