Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

If you are mid-forties, how old are your children?

229 replies

SingingSands · 08/09/2025 20:40

Just musing on this as I recently told people I was taking a day off to attend my daughter's graduation and they assumed I meant from nursery 😂

I'm mid-forties and my children are 21 and 17.

OP posts:
somethingbeginningwithb · 08/09/2025 22:53

46 with a 7 year old

CloverPyramid · 08/09/2025 22:53

My son will be 13 when I turn 45.

shuffleofftobuffalo · 08/09/2025 22:54

46, mine is 13

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

Childcare & nursery Families
Tryingmybest100 · 08/09/2025 22:54

44 - DC are 20, 19 & 7

Plantymcplantface · 08/09/2025 22:55

At 45, 8 and 10

Clingfilm · 08/09/2025 22:59

45 - 15 and 17.

zippydeedoo · 08/09/2025 23:00

48....have a 28 year old, and a 17 year old

Focusispower · 08/09/2025 23:02

I’m 45 and my kids are 7 and almost 4! Happy to see I’m not an outlier on this thread.

ThatNaiceMember · 08/09/2025 23:03

JaninaDuszejko · 08/09/2025 20:45

I'm mid 50s but 10 years ago my children were 3, 6 and 7. It will depend where you live how old parents are.

Massively this. I have moved around the UK a fair bit and at one point was far and away the oldest in a birthing class in rural Scotland... I was 28! Where I live now I think there's a wide age range of mums with children in my 15 years olds class but most seem to be in their 40s. Including me.

MaidOfSteel · 08/09/2025 23:06

JaninaDuszejko · 08/09/2025 20:45

I'm mid 50s but 10 years ago my children were 3, 6 and 7. It will depend where you live how old parents are.

I don’t understand your last sentence. What do you mean?

herbalteabag · 08/09/2025 23:16

At 45 mine were 18 and 10.

hellywelly3 · 08/09/2025 23:16

45 with a 15, 18 and 23 year old

IWishIWasABaller · 08/09/2025 23:25

43 and my children are 25 , 20,18 and 14

Pastaandoranges · 08/09/2025 23:36

13 and 8

Kurokurosuke · 08/09/2025 23:50

48, oldest 21, youngest 8. glad to see I am not alone with the mad age ranges!!!

knittings · 08/09/2025 23:50

Im 39 this december my baby is 22 and moved out.

Shergill15 · 08/09/2025 23:52

44 and DD is 10.5

HobnobsChoice · 08/09/2025 23:53

45 with a 7 year old and a 12 year old. God knows how those of you with toddlers are managing. You are braver women than me!

AntiHop · 08/09/2025 23:53
  1. I have a 10 year old and a 4 year old.
whitedrop · 08/09/2025 23:57

I’m 45: 10 and 12.

MyAcornWood · 09/09/2025 00:00

At 45, mine will be 17 and 14.

I guess if this thread tells us anything, you really cannot assume anything!

Icon15 · 09/09/2025 00:02

When I was 45, my children were 23 and 20.

TheGreatWesternShrew · 09/09/2025 00:11

AnneElliott · 08/09/2025 20:44

Ha ha - I’m 47 and my DS is 19. A colleague looked at me open mouthed when I said I had a 19 year old. I’m taking it as a compliment but loads of my similar aged colleagues have primary school kids - I’m a bit of an anomaly!

It’s not unusual to have a child at 28 is it?

BestZebbie · 09/09/2025 00:16

Mid-40s is mostly KS2 and KS3 children in my peer group (ages 7-14).
Two with adult children as well, and one who has just had a baby!

707girl · 09/09/2025 00:25

46 - 11, 12, 15, 17 and 19 but I always felt I 'started late' at 27!