What Age Did Your Parents Become GPs?

[Lilpastry]

I ask because my parents are 55 and 65 and DHs are both 58. We aren't planning kids for about 3 years or so (been together 8, but only married 1).

Anyway, we get lots of frustrated chat (particularly from DHs parents), about time passing and them being too old to be first time grandparents and what are we waiting for etc.

However, neither of us are even 30 yet! DH will be 32 and I'll be 30 when we start trying. All going to plan, my parents will be around 58 and 68 and his will be 61. I don't see the rush, and would say these are normal ages for GPs?

43 and 45.

60 and 63.

I was 33 when I had my first. My mum was 64 and my dad 73. They loved playing with DS, taking him for walks etc. Both seemed fit and healthy. Sadly my Dad passed away just before my second was born just 3 years later.

62 and 67.

59 and 60 (I was 39, I was grateful my parents had me early!)…. Not sure I’ll be a young grandmother as I’m now 53 and my children are 12 and 13….

64 and 69.

62 and 64

61 and 67.

Perfectly normal nowadays - I was 67 when the first Gdc arrived.

Of course it’s very often true that older GPs do have less energy for looking after small children, and do get that much more tired than they ever would have with their own, but IMO that’s just a fact of ‘older’ life nowadays.

66 and 68

My husband is the youngest of three and his parents are 69 and 70 now. Our son is three and we have another on the way. They have four much older grandchildren.

I am the oldest child and my parents are 66 and 69.

We started trying as soon as we got married aged 32 (didn't meet until 29) but due to unknown fertility issues our son wasn't born until I was 34 and I'm now 37 after more (different!) fertility issues trying to have our second.

In an ideal world everyone would have been much younger but that's just not how life works sometimes.

P.S I did read this and first assume you meant doctors by the way 😂

Look it’s all relative to how fit and active they are. My mum was 74 when she became a grandmother. She walked 5k a day, would go to exercise classes kept herself mentally active learning new languages. She played non stop with dc, climbed various steep hills in Scotland with us just for the view. DHs parents were 60 and just not that way inclined. My mother has now passed but she had so much more actual interaction with dc than DHs parents do. With them its very much sit in a restaurant. It’s what they are willing to make of the situation.

48 and 52

I was 28

my DH is older than me and his 69 + 70 y/o parents struggle with our DC. His siblings had their children younger, his parents fondly remember their other DGC’s toddlerhood. They were active and very involved in their early fifties. They (by their own admission) have less energy for young children now.

We are grateful that my parents are much younger and in good health.

his parents don’t seem old enough to be moaning really. 61 is a normal age.

68 and 72. They aren't able to help out as much as they'd like due to stamina and in my DF's case (79 now) limited mobility and mental decline

50 and 57 but wouldn't matter if it was 80. You have kids when you are ready.

50 and 51 - I had my rainbow baby at 25😄

44/45

67 and 65

Both 43. They went on to have 7 grandchildren before age 58. They were young parents (having first at 19).

62 & 66

My I dad is now nearly 70, he still runs about with both mine at soft play!

You do you, don’t worry about anyone else.

My Mum was 58. My Dad would have been 65 but he died a few years before DC was born

59 and 60.

58 and 64. My Dad retired a few months after DD was born.

DDad was 57, DM was 65. She died at 67 so I was very glad she got to meet her first grandchild. I was 27 when I had DD1, my parents had me late rather than me having my children later on. Given the way things turned out, I'm glad we went for it when we did.

My mum became a first time nan at 37.
My sister became a first time nan at 38.