To feel old at 31?

[Sunshine3013]

Honestly, I'm feeling really down.

I don't know what has come over me, I'm usually confident and have never worried about my age.
But suddenly I feel old. I am panicking that I need to TTC no3 as soon as possible (had my twins at 25) and I just feel like my ovaries as well as my beauty is a ticking time bomb on the road to expiring (to be honest I feel as if my youthful beauty has already expired).

I feel really emotional about all of this, my husband thinks I am being daft but I really can't fight this feeling...

I would say that feeling is often to do with your life crisumstances at the time. I felt like that at 36 with two young dc. I was exhausted all the time , it was relentless i felt wrinkled and old. I felt like it was then.

Blow me then as the DC grew up i started to feel better and less exhausted and younger. I'm now 41 and I internally feel younger than in my 30s I have more energy ,my skin actually looks better condition than in my twenties. Granted there are a few lines but my DC are 8 and 5 now.

I have more time to spend on skin care , I sleep full nights, it helps I lost 8 stone 2 years ago. I can honestly say at 41 I am more energetic happier and frankly better bloody looking than I have ever been. Well except for the year I turned 21....I looked amazing that year.

Feeling like this doesn't have to be a fixed ending. It absolutely can come back. What's rather wonderful is when it does , you keep the wisdom and confidence of age (err wisdom in a relative sense I still can't navigate for toffee but then I never could). Literally beauty and substance . Its really rather something to look forward to.