Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Original poster

How many children when you're over 30?

66 replies

throgmorton · 14/06/2007 13:09

If you started over age 30, did you have loads of children?

Just an idle wonder... I'd love to have loads but cant cope with the idea of spending most of my 30s preg and most of my 40s with young ones so I guess I've left i too late. Oh well...

OP posts:
McDreamy · 14/06/2007 16:03

DD 31
DS 34
currently ttc no 3 I will be 37 when baby is born

hana · 14/06/2007 16:02

dd1 32
dd2 35
dd3 36

bobbydazzler · 14/06/2007 16:00

had DS at 34 and currently ttc no2 at 37 but it is taking ages so part of me kind of wishing had started sooner.

Probably serves me right as DS was conceived quickly and was an easy pregnancy so was feeling quite smug back then and feeling glad I had delayed having children.

now I'm neither so smug or so glad!

lizziemun · 14/06/2007 14:59

had dd when i was 34 and am now pg with no2 due in august and i will be 38 in october. I don't think that there will be anymore as i don't get pg that easy.

It has taken about 2 and half to get each time. Not that we want anymore either.

motherinferior · 14/06/2007 14:01

I had one at 37, one at 40. If I'd started earlier I'd have another, but as I turned 44 last week I think I'm calling it a day.

francagoestohollywood · 14/06/2007 13:59

ds - I was 31 and a half
dd - I was 33 and a half.
Would like another one, but my patience has gone. I'll be 37 in November. I'm giving myself another 3 years to make the final decision

Tinker · 14/06/2007 13:55

ages not kids

Singapore · 14/06/2007 13:55

Cat, that's men... the little dears. Mind you it was funny but would have been funnier if it was someone other that me telling it! I will admit to spending the next week comparing myself to anyone pushing a baby round and thing do I look older/younger than her?

Daisyboo, firstly congratulations and secondly give it a while!

Tinker · 14/06/2007 13:55

32 and 40

Twiglett · 14/06/2007 13:54

DS at 32 nearly 33
DD at 37

would like another but too late now (for me) at 40

fifilou · 14/06/2007 13:53

dont worry so much!

Crazy-bonkers worrying is no good for the soul, let alone ttc!

I'm 32 (33 in march) and am only just trying.( when i say only just- i mean this is my first month off the pill!)

Most of the women around where i live are career women and have had their first at 36+

Dont worry! Be happy!

curiouscat · 14/06/2007 13:52

I thought I'd be the granny at antenatal class when had my first child at 32 and it turned out I was one of the young ones.

Mine were born when I was 32,34 and 36. But I wouldn't take anything for granted.

I had two miscarriages as well, one age 30, one age 33. You can never be sure how it'll turn out. Good luck whatever you do.

bigknickersbigknockers · 14/06/2007 13:46

DS1 born a couple of months after my 30th birthday

had DS2 aged 33

Had DD aged 35

I cannot imagine having babies in my 20s but thats probably more to do with the fact that my Ex H was a total nob head and I didnt start going out with DH until I was almost 27

daisyboo · 14/06/2007 13:45

ds at 33
dd (last week) at 38

would love another one before i'm 40, but dh not so keen, and i would have to get my skates on, although nothing could be further from my mind at the moment than getting jiggy!!

CatIsSleepy · 14/06/2007 13:42

well technically speaking that's true singapore but even so...
bet the person who asked you that was ever so ever so
young (and silly)
can always count on my dh to laugh at me when i need reassurance too!

Aloha · 14/06/2007 13:42

My stepdaughter's mother had three after 40. I think Mohze on her has had about a dozen after 38.
I had mine at 38 and 41. No more though.

Tutter · 14/06/2007 13:42
cutekids · 14/06/2007 13:41

dd1 when I was 30
ds1 when I was 31
dd2 when I was 32...!!!

Tutter · 14/06/2007 13:41

ds1 at 34
currently pg with ds2 and am now 36

unlikely to have more becasue the gap i would need for may sanity's sake would mean i'd be over 40. not impossible, but not perfect...

jura · 14/06/2007 13:39

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

mazzystar · 14/06/2007 13:39

ds at 34 - two weeks before my birthday
dd at 37
jury is still out on a third.....

Singapore · 14/06/2007 13:38

Tell me about it, I must have looked particulary rough that day, came home to dh for some reassurance!He found it highly amusing as did my mum, who looks like a grandma! I had ds three weeks before my 40th birthday, so I suppose I could have been his grandmother!

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 14/06/2007 13:35

DD1 at 32
DS1 at 34
DD2 at 35

And I'd like to have another one before I'm 40. I conceive very easily which was lucky. But it can be hard work having them this fast but the rewards are worth it. They are a tremendous team and they'll all be at school by my 40th year - unless I do have another, but hey-ho, 40 isn't old like it was when our grandmothers were having children.

CatIsSleepy · 14/06/2007 13:35

the cheek singapore!

Singapore · 14/06/2007 13:33

When I took my ds back for his six week check, someone at the hospital asked me if I was his grandmother!