Young grandparents

[HighlandWorrier]

So I recently bumped into an old school friend who told me she's a granny and her 3 kids are all over 20. Realise I must have started out late as my own kids are 4 and 11.

Was speaking to my friend about it and she told me of someone who became a granny at 35 I was like

So wondering if I am in the minority to not have grandkids, I'm 44 by the way.

My DC's Granny is younger than their Great Grandmas

I'm the oldest of the oldest of the oldest so my line of the family has closer generation gaps. DH and I have a bit of an age gap, plus he's the youngest of parents who started their family late. Added to that my family tends to have large age gaps within a generation, such as siblings who were nearly adult when their youngest sibling were born so the generations are very spread and overlapping across others. One generation can span 35 years between cousins!

It's not so much of a family tree as a shrubbery

Granny is older than the Great Grandmas that should be!

I was 41. Granddaughter is 1 next month.

I’m 51 no grandchildren, my kids range from 28 to 17,

My sister 49 & has 4 grandkids her kids are 29 to 25

My mum had me at 20 yo and I had my son when I was 20yo so she was a granny at 40.

Me and DH were 43 when we became grandparents.
I had our eldest at 23 and in turn he became a Father at 20.

Im 40. I absolutely cannot imagine beinv a granny!

DM became a GM 2 months after her 43rd birthday. She’s about to become a GM for the second time just after her 48th birthday! Some of her friends are also grandparents whereas some have children closer in age to my DD (4.5).

My mum was 40 and dad was 39 when I had my son. I was 19 at the time. Let’s just say my mums the youngest Nan out of DS classmates.

My mum will be 51 when our first is born. She was 24 when she had me and I'll be 27.

I've just become a Nana at 39. I'm not gonna lie i was in total shock and heartbroke for my daughter and her boyfriend becoming parents at 17yrs old. We now have a 3 month old gorgeous little boy and our whole family could'nt imagine life without him. Life does'nt have to stop when a little one comes along when your young. If anythin it drives you on and gives everyone a zest for life. All i can say is the whole experience is amazing and there is a love you could never imagine x

I don't think you are in the minority. My DM and Dd's parents were all in their late 50s when they became grandparents. My parents were mid 50s. I was 43 when I became a grandmother,but then I was only 19 when I had my Dd and she was only 23 when she had my Dgd.

Life throws many curve balls but we just deal with it.

My ExH became a grandad at 37. His eldest son was born when he was just turned 18, and the son went on to have his first at 19. Ours were only 7 and 4 at the time, so yes, even though it wasn’t my biological grandchild, it felt a bit odd.

It made me feel old when I went to have my nails done and the nail technician started talking about how she loved being a grandmother. Thought she was fairly young to be a grandmother, but assumed she was in her 40s. Found out when we were discussing Covid vaccines that she was the exact same age as me - 37. My own DC were 2 and 4 🤣

I became a grandmother at 49, and a mother at 23. My sister became a grandmother at 37 and a mother at 18.

My eldest nephew (older brothers son) is 16 now and when he started school my mum (aka his Nana) looked younger than half the mums of kids in his class. Turns out she was at 47 actually younger than a few and not far of loads of the others. For me, having a child after 41/42 is not what I want, but I get a lot of people struggle with getting pregnant or just deliberately wait.

My uncle became a dad at 16. His daughter became a mother around the same age. (meaning he was around 32)

Zombie thread! I posted on this three years ago to say my DM was 62 with no grandkids. Now she's 64 with a 2YO GC

School friends became grandparents 3 years before I became a parent. We are 38 now!

I became a Mother at 30 and a Grandmother at 50.

The youngest I've met IRL was 33 when she became a DGM. Another was 34. Quite a few under 40 in areas of high social and economic deprivation.

My DGM was 70 when I was born. My DM wasn't happy about 'only' being in her 50s.

I think c 60 is ideal, young and fit enough to be involved but so not young as to be working full time mostly.

MIL became a granny aged 40. Although there were no more grandkids until she was 55.

(She had her eldest when she was young and they had their first child young)

I knew someone who became a granny at 31. She was 16 when ds born, he became a dad at 15 ( stayed with the young mum, married at 21 and 22, both worked ft)
Another was a gran at 36. 18 when she had dd, who had her first at 18.