To think 28 isn't too young to have a baby?

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I'm pregnant with my first child and about to turn 28. DH is 31. Since we started telling our friends and family, a few have commented that they are surprised as we are so young.

I've googled and seen that the average age to be a first time mum has now gone past 30.

Am I going to be the youngest at all baby groups and struggle to make friends?! I thought we were fairly average.

I was 22yo when I had DD and I'm due with our second child today at 24yo. Both the same dad and we're happily married. As long as you're happy and child will be loved and cared for then that's the only thing that matters.

Lol not easily .

The cost of childcare is insane . Read pregnant and screwed

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Students only pay 15% on childcare fees. It's actually more affordable to have one while studying. If you have a child at college/sixth form it's also subsided, accounting to around 3 days fully paid.

I’m 27 and OH is 31 and we are the first out of my friends (Surrey and almost all degree educated) and his friends from uni. But not the first out of his friends from school (Yorkshire and none went to uni).

Out of my fb friends I notice that those that didn’t go to uni seem to have children much earlier.

No. In fact, biologically you’ll be classed as an older first-time Mum!
However, it’s now more common to have children later, as it takes much longer now for many to get settled in rented or mortgaged accommodation that’s suitable...

20-odd years ago my mum was considered old having her first at 31! (One grandmother had her first aged 22 and the other aged 28)

As in, the other grandmother!