To be worried about being an old mum?!

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Tell me I'm being really unreasonable! I feel bloody ancient compared to all the other TTC ladies!

I had mine at 33 & 36 & felt I was on the old side. However, lots of people I know had their first at 35+ so it's not unusual at all. Several of ds2's friends' mums are older than I am. My grandmother was 44 when she had my dad & my aunt was 46 when she had my cousin, so I was positively youthful in comparison!

Having babies in your late 30s/40s is nothing new. Before contraception, women just carried on having babies until they no longer could.

I had mine in my early thirties. If I had my time again, I would have waited till my late thirties and enjoyed my time as a couple more (more travelling, more luxuries, more sleep!). I was one of the first of my friends to have kids.

First at 35, 37 when my second is due. Everyone at my nct and at local baby group is into their 30s and I am certainly not the oldest. Have met a couple of mums recently with grown up children who have just started their second family with a new partner.

It's definitely area dependent. I live in a middle class area of a large Northern town. Round my area most women have careers and have children later. If you go into the town centre or when you go to the hospital you see a lot of younger looking women (early 20s) pregnant/ with a baby. I'd say NCT seems to attract older mums.

I'm 35 and pregnant with our first, I'll be 36 when he makes his appearance in summer! Never really thought of myself as being old - my mom was just over 36 when she had me (32 when she had my brother), and most of my friends and colleagues have been in their mid-late 30s/early 40s when they've had their first.

It did take us two years to conceive though, turns out I have a wonky thyroid and PCOS!