What age do you consider a "young mum"?

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Under 20.

It's well known that fertility starts to decline in early 30s, then declining rapidly at 35 onwards.

No this is no longer considered fact as the data that first suggested this was based on 17th century data. Women are much healthier now and the recent data suggests there is little impact to the fertility of healthy women until early forties.

Under 21

21 and under
I had my oldest at 21

No disputes regarding this affects of fathers age. Simply that this form is regarding mothers

I was 24 with first and definitely the youngest by far in all the groups I went to when he was a baby and his friends now, their mums all have ten yrs on me. He was planned, we then had Dc2 when I was 27, felt a bit more comfortable at baby classes etc with him and found some peers, but really it's not until baby number 3,who I had at 35 that I finally felt not judged and had peers in every group and have finally made some friends.
It's not like I was a teen mum. When my mum had me she was 33 and she was one of the older mums in the playground! When her mum had her, she was 21 and that was considered normal.

Teen to 25. I was 21.

Teen. I was 22 when I had DS and have never thought of myself as a young mum.

@Chipsahoy
I find it so the way what is saw as socially normal has changed so much in a short amount of time!

None of my friends, colleagues, neighbours had/have babies under 25, even under 30 I would consider young. If you go to uni, are working hard, spending money on rent & have not yet met anyone it's harder to have kids at a young age. I met DH in my teens but I never considered marrying him & having dc in my early 20s because none of my friends were in anything like a similar position.

I got married at 19, had first child at 19, then 22 and 25, so I had 3 children at the age of 25. I didn't feel a particularly young mother at the time as most women in my area were doing the same thing but looking back now at my daughters, it does seem rather young.

I think nowadays it's under 30.

When I was having my babies, in the early 80s, a "young mum" would have been under 25.

Under 25?

I was 27 and didn’t feel like a ‘young mum’.

I'd say under 30

Isn't the average age now 30 & for dads 33

24 & under. I had DS at 18. My midwife said that 16-24 year old mothers have the easiest births in her experience.

That said, I live in a posh, rural area where mid-late thirties seems to be average. I suppose it depends on the area.

Had my oldest at 21 and my second and 23 wouldn’t consider myself a young mum still

In the past I would have said under 20, but these days I think people are leaving it later, so would say under 25.

I suspect it will go even higher in the future, though obviously there is a limit.

23 and under.

Under 25?
When I was 25 I had Dd1who was 10 at the time.
I definitely was a young mum.
When I had Dd2 I was 38. At the same time 2 of Dd1's friends from school had their first. They were 23.
Second time round I was alot older than everyone else in my antenatal group.

Teens to 23ish?

I was 19, that definitely felt young.

Friends started having babies at 23 and that's when people stopped reacting like 😱 "what did your parents say?" and started saying congratulations etc.

Old habits die hard for me though, a colleague is 28 and pregnant and I was still like "😱". I'm 25 and TTC #2 and I think when I get pregnant I'll still be scared of telling my parents 😂

Under 25

I had my first at 25 I early 80’s and was described on my notes as elderly primagavida, 3rd aged 35 and was about average age. My mum had me in 1956 aged 29 and was considered absolutely far too old to still be considering being a mother!
None of my daughter in laws, stepdaughters had a baby before 32.

I was 19. Too young really.