To ask if you think 24 is a young Mum?

[Cleo2628]

just wondering your opinions. I’m 24 with a 7 month old.

Don’t think it’s particularly young but it’s a lot younger than I was. When I was 24 having a baby would have been my absolute worst nightmare. Which is why I waited another 12 years.
Can see the positives and negatives to both and it’s definitely a case of do it when it works for you.

Yes. I'm 23 and feel like a child myself despite living and working in London in our own flat with my boyfriend.

I think 26 and under is young.

I’d say quite young, but not current unconventionally young

Doesn't mean you can't be a good mum, just that I think it is young.

Youngest of my friends was 29. Most had their first between 32-37.

I wouldn’t judge or think anything of it.

I was 20 and married at 21 that is young lol

I’d say youngish nowadays but probably the better way around to do it while you’re young and have the energy - you’ll have everything ticked off by the time you’re 40 while others will have just become parents.

I was 27 when I had DS 2.5 years ago. Had a degree, very good job and didn't feel like it was too young, but where I live and worked, I was practically a teenage mother. We were financially secure enough to raise a child and, whilst I don't think I'd have had children younger, I don't think I could have had my first one whilst I was much older either.

I had DS1 when I was 23. I didn't feel young at the time. But when I meet people now who are in their early 20s, they seem really young. Probably because I'm old though!

I was 24 (turning 25 in a few weeks) when my son was born and I was definitely the youngest in my NCT class and on the maternity ward, I didn't feel that young but other mums seem to think I'm super young but I live in a rather trendy middle class part of south London, where lots of the other mums I meet are in their mid to late 30's or older.

It’s 10 years younger than I was at becoming a mother. But I don’t think it’s too young at all.

I had my DS aged 19, wether your young or old it doesn’t define being a mother.

I was 25 when my first was born and that was considered very young where we live. I also felt slightly too young, it wasn't really well planned career wise. For my body, it felt like the perfect time and as a 'young' mum I have all the energy I need for DCs

I had 4 dc at 24.....

I was 28 which was pretty perfect for me. Old enough to have had a decent wild time in my early 20s, to have graduated and established a few years in a career (which helpfully has been transferable into freelance work post-dc), young enough to have energy on my side and to study while on maternity leave.
That was right for me and my family, but I don’t really think there’s an ideal age or time to have a baby - it depends on your personality and your circumstances.

It's young but not too young, you are an adult I was 19 when I had mine which was young imo but hey ho 8yrs later no longer.

I think anything under 25 is young for a mum.

I was 22..

nope. I had my first at 20 and my second at 22. I did feel young at the time and looking back I was young BUT it didn't matter. I've had the best 10 years of my life with my 2. So much better than the 10 years I would have had without them. I have qualifications, a local business and an international business. My children made me.

Young or not, if you and your little one is happy that's all that matters.

Modern thinking will try and tell you it’s young. It’s not. It’s very healthy for baby and mother. It’s a very natural age, whilst still adhering to societal constructs.

Many external factors have influenced the average age for child birth. Nature might tell you that’s not ideal. If ideal bothers you.

The fashion for having children older is going to result in grandparents becoming such very old and sometimes incapable to enjoy relationships with their grandchildren. And no chance of great grandparents.

I had my DD at 36. It’s fine but 20’s is much better from a natural point of view IMO.

I was 24 when my son was born. Really it was too young and a couple more years building my career would have been better.
The upside is when I'm 42 he will be off to university compared to people who wait until late 30s and are just starting the school run years at the same age. I will be young enough to work lots and enjoy my life when he flies the nest.

Yes. Had my DS 7 years ago aged 20. People are still shocked now when they find out I’m a mum aged 27, and even more shocked if I tell them how old I was when I had him.

I’m in London - we did NCT but everyone was 35+, and mums at school have more in common with my parents than with my DP and I. In London anything under 30 is considered practically a teen pregnancy!

Yes

I had my first at 22

I didn't feel like a young mother back then. I was ready for it and I felt like I did it very well.

But if I see or know people who have children below the age of 25 I feel a bit sad and think 'no! Live your 20s!'

And that's probably because part of me does wish I had done more with my early 20s and wish I was a bit more reckless as opposed to endure sleepless nights, staying in and all those other things that come with having a baby.

That being said, I'm turning 27 this weekend and I feel like my life is just beginning again. It's weird. Kids are both going to pre school and I have a lot of my life back next week to do whatever I wish.

So now I want a cat. But OH won't allow it.