To ask what age you consider to be socially acceptable to have a baby these days?!

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I'm currently pregnant with my first and from chatting with my 24yo sister today I was shocked when she told me how many of her school friends have had babies of their own already. Not a bad thing by any means but thought it'd be interesting hearing your opinions on what age it goes from "OMG 'X' is pregnant" to "how lovely 'X' is pregnant!"

25 to 40

Also depends on mother nature

I wanted and was ready to be A mum at 33

Sadly took 10yrs ttc and 4 failed private ivf and many thousands of pounds till 5th ivf worked

Finally preg at 43

Dd is 4mths tomorrow. I'm just 44

I think 23-25 it's acceptable but add a few years to it for people to say ''how lovely''.

Dancingonmyown does that mean you've been with your partner since you were 12??

Wanna I don't know anyone who wouldn't comment favourably to a 23-25 year old having their first DC

Over here, that's later than average for your first

Wanna Yep, I was around 12 he was 13. I'm almost 25 now.

Well age of consent is 16, so anyone pregnant after that as only done what we as a county think it's perfectly legal (considering no contraception is 100%, anyone doing so runs the risk of pregnancy). So the same for any woman who hasn't gone through the menopause.
I wouldn't judge someone for going ahead with a unplanned pregnancy.

To actually plan a baby I suppose is different, but people's circumstances vary so much. There's no right or wrong if you've the means to love and care for a child, surely?

And where does the judgement stop? How about, how much a woman weighs before getting pregnant is socially acceptable? How much someone earns? Housing situation? Health/disability, possible future health?
But then I'd only judge someone on their parenting if it was detrimental to the child's well being.

I don't think anything either way! My brother had his kids at 18 and is now free and easy at 38, whereas I'm 32 and just started. He thinks I'm late in having kids but I'm the first female friend (among all the females I'm been friends with since school) to have them at our age, so I feel early!

In terms of where I live, I feel most mums are younger than me. When I stayed in Brighton I felt like a young mum.