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What age did you have your kids?

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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?

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weegiemum · 12/12/2025 16:24

I was 29, 31 and 32. About average for my age I think (was in 2000, 02 and 03).

starrynight009 · 12/12/2025 16:24
  1. So older than average. Although a lot of my similar age friends had children in their late 30s.
Boomer55 · 12/12/2025 16:22

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?

My daughter the day before I was 20. My son at age 21. 👍

Canonlythinkofthisone · 12/12/2025 16:19

35, only 4 years ago and deffo classed as "geriatric" by the NHS 🤣🤣

Snoopsyz · 12/12/2025 16:17

QuiltPlantCandle · 12/12/2025 15:16

16 is average?????

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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

Needaglowup · 12/12/2025 16:13

22 and 24 .. 30 years old , was young but in today age I would be young young .. but for me it was the perfect age and wouldn’t change it

superbakedpotato · 12/12/2025 16:09

30, and hope to have DC2 at 32.

devfire · 12/12/2025 16:08

19 and 28

Panda89 · 12/12/2025 16:03

I was 26 when I had my only DD in 2016.
DH was 22 which people think was very young but it was ideal for us.

elliejjtiny · 12/12/2025 15:52

24, 25, 28, 31, 32.

About average for first 2. I wanted to have dc1 earlier but he took a while to come. Bit older than average for my younger 3, and with my youngest I was the oldest on the maternity ward so definitely older than average. The next youngest mum was 29, there was a 27 year old and all the others were teenagers.

couldthisbe2501 · 12/12/2025 15:50

My first IVF cycle I was 23 and I eventualy became a mum on my 28th birthday!

user593 · 12/12/2025 15:46

35 & 39, which I suspect is older than average (although less so in London where I am).

ImaginaryLobster · 12/12/2025 15:46

37 and I still would like 1 more

Papyrophile · 12/12/2025 15:45

Another fortunate example. I conceived instantly and naturally at 42, had an easy pregnancy and uncomplicated delivery, just before my 43rd birthday. But it only worked once!

Catnanna · 12/12/2025 15:44

28 & 29. We had been married for 5 years and decided time was right. Had youngest arrived on time I’d have had 2 under 1.

ScrambledEggs12 · 12/12/2025 15:28

33 and 35 which is well above average in the area I live in.

Instructions · 12/12/2025 15:27

24, 27 and 33

I found the last pregnancy so much harder. Physically the toll was huge. I found parenting a newborn so much easier with him, but that's probably because I had had experience of 2 already rather than because I was a little older

There is no right age. Do it young and you have more energy and physically it is easier. Do it older and you have more life experience and probably more stability. I know women who became mothers for the first time as teenagers and women who had their first baby in their 40s- I haven't seen anything to make me believe one age is objectively better than the other.

Btowngirl · 12/12/2025 15:25

30 and 33. Hoping for another in the next couple of years (I’m 34 and have 6 embryos on ice)

Catpiece · 12/12/2025 15:25
jinn2025 · 12/12/2025 15:24

33 & 36

IdaGlossop · 12/12/2025 15:18
  1. Easy pregnancy, no difficulty conceiving. I know I was very fortunate.
QuiltPlantCandle · 12/12/2025 15:16

sunshineandshowers21 · 12/12/2025 15:05

16, 22, 26, 28. average in my area, but definitely way below average in most areas i’d imagine!

16 is average?????

sunshineandshowers21 · 12/12/2025 15:05

16, 22, 26, 28. average in my area, but definitely way below average in most areas i’d imagine!

Endofyear · 12/12/2025 15:04

19, 22, 25, 27 and 29! Basically spent a decade of my life pregnant or breastfeeding 😂 I started quite young and finished before I was 30 which is probably youngish these days.

AlwaysADramaHadEnough · 12/12/2025 15:03

22 33 38
By far was easier at 22.