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Loobyloolovesandypandy · 31/01/2026 19:22

Lacatrina · 12/12/2025 14:04

What age did you have your kids and would you say it was before, bang on or over average age wise?

Me almost 27 DH 30. Second child 2 years later. Perfect for us. We had 10 lovely child free years and a head start with finances which set us up for life. We’re retired now.

LovesLabradors · 16/12/2025 02:40

31, 34 & 37.
Ideally I'd had had them just a couple of years earlier. I was also told I was classed as a "geriatric mother" - the definition being a mother having her first over the age of 30.

SharpBrickMaker · 16/12/2025 01:48

21 ,24 ,27 below average as most of the mums from school etc are having babies now ( we are now 34) I'm also one of the youngest mums with dd13 year group

Snoopsyz · 13/12/2025 13:13

sunshineandshowers21 · 13/12/2025 11:32

i’m 34 now. i’m from a council estate where it is very common for girls to have babies straight out of school. my nanna and mum also had their first baby at 16. i was kind of an anomaly as i fell pregnant aged 15 whilst still at school, but there was at least 9 or 10 girls in my year who had a baby a year or two after me.

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Sorry didn’t mean to say you’re old obviously 34 isn’t old but I read somewhere between 2010 and 2020 under 18 pregnancies went down massively or something like that I was also 15/16 and pregnant in the late 2010s and felt like a freak everywhere I went. In all fairness I’m also a shortass who looked about 12 at 16 so that might of played a part

sunshineandshowers21 · 13/12/2025 11:32

Snoopsyz · 12/12/2025 16:17

I think she must have meant when she had her younger kids or maybe she’s older and meant back in the day when young mums were more common.

Because I had my eldest 8 years ago when I was 16 and EVERY WHERE I went with him as a toddler/ baby I felt like a freak. I am also a midget who looked about 12 at 16 though

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i’m 34 now. i’m from a council estate where it is very common for girls to have babies straight out of school. my nanna and mum also had their first baby at 16. i was kind of an anomaly as i fell pregnant aged 15 whilst still at school, but there was at least 9 or 10 girls in my year who had a baby a year or two after me.

OlympicProcrastinator · 13/12/2025 09:01

38 and 40. Too old at 40. 38 was ok. Would have liked them earlier but the man I was dating wasn’t good enough to be the father of my kids when I was 30. Met husband at 34, married at 35 and wanted to check he didn’t change after a couple of years like the men I dated in my 20’s did.

Snoopsyz · 13/12/2025 08:49

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 13/12/2025 07:42

I had my two at 30 and 32 I was definitely younger than than average in my area in the South East. My DH is the same age as me and is always the youngest at school even for our younger one. There was 1 mum younger than me in NCT and at primary school. They are now at secondary school and I’m definitely one of the youngest. For the whole country I know we are around average.
My Mum was treated as a elderly first time mum when having me at 27 in the late 1970! I think the area makes a difference as she was in a northern city.

Had my eldest in the late 2010s when I was 16 and I live in the south east. It’s been awkward with the other parents to say the least 😂

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 13/12/2025 07:42

I had my two at 30 and 32 I was definitely younger than than average in my area in the South East. My DH is the same age as me and is always the youngest at school even for our younger one. There was 1 mum younger than me in NCT and at primary school. They are now at secondary school and I’m definitely one of the youngest. For the whole country I know we are around average.
My Mum was treated as a elderly first time mum when having me at 27 in the late 1970! I think the area makes a difference as she was in a northern city.

G1ngerbread · 12/12/2025 23:42

18 and 25, first clearly too young. I’d say a good age is 28. Now they’re older I’m glad. I can’t imagine having young kids in my 40’s.

Fifthtimelucky · 12/12/2025 23:26

36 and 38. Fairly normal now, but I was older than average at the time (late 1990s).

828Pax · 12/12/2025 22:53

29 and 32. I would have preferred a few years earlier but it wasn't too be

CoodleMoodle · 12/12/2025 22:45

I was almost 25 with the first and just turned 29 with the second. I think this was fairly normal, maybe slightly younger than average where we live.

My DM had me (only child) at 35 and my MIL had DH (second born) at 36. That's how old we are now and the thought of starting again...!

Didimum · 12/12/2025 22:44

32 with twins. Average where I am.

SusiQ18472638 · 12/12/2025 22:42

26 and 29, I was younger than most of the other school mums with my first, and was the first to have children in my friendship group. Took us a couple of years to have our first as well but mainly just hoped to have my children by 30

Elsraspberry · 12/12/2025 22:40

I was 25, 27 and 29. I would say on the younger side but also plenty of mums similar ages too!

slx · 12/12/2025 22:36

25 & 28

Roundaboot · 12/12/2025 22:36

When I was trying I thought I'd left it late (always wanted to have my first before 30) but then when DS was born and I went to baby groups etc I felt like one of the younger mums. I was the first in my friend group to have a baby too.

Olinguita · 12/12/2025 22:34

38 with DS. Got unlucky in love and didn't meet DH til I was in my mid 30s...
I still feel a lot of shame about being an older mum and having only one child. But equally it's not hugely unusual in my generation (older millennial) so maybe time to stop beating myself up about it 🤷‍♀️

aintnospringchicken · 12/12/2025 22:32

28 and 31.This was in the early 90s

Rictasmorticia · 12/12/2025 22:30

22, 24 32

Dramatic · 12/12/2025 22:26

17, 20, 22, 30. Earlier than average for the first three, average for the fourth.

ladygindiva · 12/12/2025 22:23

23 and 42. Very young and very old 🤣

youalright · 12/12/2025 22:20

15,18, 31, 33. First one young 2nd slightly young 3rd and 4th i felt old. 18 was the easiest age. 15 I still had school no friends with kids missed going out. 18 other friends had babies had my own home had loads of energy. 31 and 33 was harder just felt exhausted all the time I didn't want kids past 30 but its just how it worked out.

Friendlyfart · 12/12/2025 22:17

30 & 32

StupidHappyClocks · 12/12/2025 22:11

27 & 30. Very average 20 years ago. I wasn’t a ‘young’ or ‘older’ mum.

The average in some areas/circles does seem much older now. When my kids were in infant school there were only a few mums in their 40s and none in their 50s.

One of my friends is 50 with a 7 yr old and only a few of the school mums in her son’s class had children before 35.