To be a bit shocked by this?......

[becaroo]

......just heard that someone I went to school with has just become a grandmother.

I turned 38 last October.

EXP and I made his mum a gran at 35.

Blimey...its much more common than I thought then!

It was common a few generations ago..

although my mum had me (first child) at 31 and i had ds at 19 so i don't tally with your findings

my mum was a grandma at 37, I became a grandma at 42 and now have 10 grandchildren at the ripe old age of 48

miss Thats true but women generally got married at 18-19 and had dc straight away.

Lots of my aunts had 2 kids by the time they were 21.

One of them had her son on her 21st birthday!!!! (unlike me who spent her 21st off her face in a nightclub )

fedup Wow! Congrats! How many dc do you have?

thanks Becaroo I have 9 kids the oldest 5 are grown up now and all starting families of there own

fedup is it good being a GM? I am hoping if I am lucky enough to ever have GC it will be all the perks and none of the responsibility!!!

My mum was one of 17 and my dad was one of 6 so I think families were generally larger in the past.

My DD's bf grandmother is younger than I am and I think would have been a grandmother at 35, which was the same age I had DD.

dd's best friend's older brother is the same age as me... so if he'd had a child at the same age as me his mother would have been a grandmother at the same time as having her youngest! Funnily enough I get along brilliantly with her despite the age gap.

As for the trend, my mom had me at 31 and i made her a grandmother when i was 20. My dad was 48 when he became a grandfather

Becaroo being a grandparent is the best we get all the fun bits then can hand them back when we have had enough, although we often have one overnight :)

I think there was a study somewhere which said that girls born to teenage mums were more likely to go on to become teenage mums themselves.

My mum felt too young to become a GM at 50! Though she loves it now :)

I was a grandmother at 34, had DS at 18, he had DGD at 17, DGD is now 15 almost 16 and she has been warned she better not make me a Greatgrandmother for a long time!

if my son has a child at the same age as i had him i would be a gran at 32

but that will NOT be happing

happening i mean ..

I'm 31, my mum is 46 and she is a nan to a 13yo, a 6yo and a nearly 2yo, That means my mum was a nan at 33 {grin]

My DD often comments that most of her friends mums are the same age as her nan, some older.

Blimey, my Dad had a girlie strop at being too young to be a grandad....at...58!

I have to say don't think I know any real gymslip mums - 19/20 yes but not earlier. I have led a sheltered life, haven't I.....

My mum had me at 24, I was 39 when I had DD. If DD doesn't have a DC until she's my age I'll be waiting until I'm 78 to be a grandmother .

There was someone at my work who last year or the year before became a grandmother at 34.

I can't imagine my DD waiting until her late 30's early 40's to have a child, I would be in my late 50's early 60's then, that's way too old to just become a grandparent imo anyway. Although obviously if that's what my DD chooses then that is absolutely fine. My DP's parents are 63 and 65 and their oldest GC is 7 and their youngest GC is 2.

I have a cousin the same age as me (mid forties) who has been a gran for some time. Nothing eyebrow-raising; she and her daughter were both adults when they gave birth at 19. I was however mortally wounded a few years ago when an old man at a bus stop assumed the DS at my side was my grandson.

dh was a great uncle several years before he became a dad

(youngest child in a big family having late dc, first child in the big family had dc early and pattern was repeated hence everything getting out of sync. means my dc have cousins that are 30 years older than them and second cousins (great cousins?!) that are also older than they are)

I've known a couple of families where there has been an older child(ren) and then a much later child that has co-incided with the grandchildren being born, so the kids (look more like cousins but actually aunt and niece) have been in the same class together at school and managed to confuse a few teachers about it, including 'my aunt is picking me up' and then the pair of them wandering out

My best friend from school became a grandmother last year (sigh).

My Mum was 20 when I was born and 38 when I had ds1. Ds1 likes having a young Mum