To not think 26 is young for a first baby

[Wildtimes78889]

Dd is pregnant and 26 and people keep saying how young she is. Aibu to think it’s perfectly average age to have a baby.

Very young IMO. I had my first at 32 and was one of the first of all my friends. That was only as I thought I would have fertility issues, although I didn’t… important to be financially independent and have enjoyed the world before having kids.

I’m 26 and pregnant, so no

It is the perfect age as long as you're financially stable.

No definitely don't think of it as too young, and I think it's a shame that so many women are pressured to have kids later when ttc then oftten becomes a stressful/expensive/heartbreaking thing.

On the young side but not TOO young. I was 25 and the first one out of my friends, 3 years later and none of my friendship group in London have kids but my northern friends are starting to. Helps that houses are cheaper here I think

I was 27, people in my office at the time were shocked as we weren't married 😂😂we'd been together 6 years and still are 21 years later

@DrDetriment

I think it's young but I wouldn't dream of commenting to her and I think it depends where you live. Where I live most women have children in their 30s as they are well educated and establish a career first.

This sentiment comes across a bit snobby and also very close minded. I had my first at 25 and have a good career, educated to masters level, have a v comfortable income with dc in private school, and some other nice stuff. 26 is just not too young

These days it is quite young. As many people are waiting till over 30. But it isn't that young.

26-27 is about the last age range where I’d think privately that it’s young, I think. 28 and above I wouldn’t think they were especially young for a baby. But yes, 26 is young to have a first child for me and in my circles. A couple people did have their first around 27 but they were very much a rarity and others didn’t start having kids until their thirties.

@Wildtimes78889

Dd is pregnant and 26 and people keep saying how young she is. Aibu to think it’s perfectly average age to have a baby.

It is young as per the standards of today. The average age is 29

@WeatherSystems

26-27 is about the last age range where I’d think privately that it’s young, I think. 28 and above I wouldn’t think they were especially young for a baby. But yes, 26 is young to have a first child for me and in my circles. A couple people did have their first around 27 but they were very much a rarity and others didn’t start having kids until their thirties.

Same

I had a good job with a growing career and we'd bought our first house, people still said I was young at 25. Nah - just single-minded from my teens. Degree, good job, babies young, rest o' your life to do the rest.

Had my dd at 25 and never had any negative comments, I always knew I wanted to be done having children by the time I'm 32, some don't want start having them even then, each to their own, so long as a child has loving stable parents it shouldn't matter to anyone else how old they are.

@ouchmyfeet thank you. That is what I was getting at. It is a simple fact backed up by research that the more educated a woman is the later they have children. It doesn't mean that everyone who has children in their mid 20s is uneducated. I just meant that most people I knew at that time were busy on graduate schemes or training to be doctors or barristers or something and were not able to take time out for children. Also most people I know didn't meet a partner until around 30.

No not young. I was having my second by 27, youngest at 31 and I thought I was quite old!

I was 23 and 25. We where definitely one of the younger ones at antenatal appointments but then was a high risk pregnancy. At the school gate there is a lot of parents similar age but also a lot older. Very few younger than me

Yep. Young.

I think it is the perfect age. I had mine at 32 then 37. My level of energy massively deteriorated between first and second. The mums and dads on the school run now seem to have a huge variance in age ranges but I live in a rural area rather than a large town with distinct social segregation based on wealth.

I had my first at 26, looking back it did seem young, but it was right for us!! It was definitely younger than all of my friends though, they mostly having their first babies now and my first si nearly 8!

Sounds great. Congratulations! I was married at 25 and had DC 1 at 26 and DC 2 at 29 having done two degrees and in a good career prior to marriage.
Nearly 20 years on, age 44, DH and I are looking forwards to some travelling and independence with the kids heading off to uni in the next couple of years. We are healthy, fit and glad to have been lucky enough to have a family in our mid twenty's.

Its statistically younger than average now but I think too many of us are leaving it too late. Having had both of mine in my thirties and experienced the miscarriages and problems that become more common as we age, I'm hoping my own daughter is able to have her own kids a little younger.

I would argue in some areas 26 is actually quite old! Congratulations to your daughter 🎉

@Wildtimes78889

Dd is pregnant and 26 and people keep saying how young she is. Aibu to think it’s perfectly average age to have a baby.

Does she still live with you? A colleagues daughter had a baby last year but despite being 28 because she still lived at home she felt younger than that and I kept having to remind myself that she wasn't a young mum at all.

Idk I'm 26 and nowhere near ready for a child. I still feel like a child! But, of course it's not too young and you can live your life how you want

when people left school at 16 then 18/19 was normal for a first child. Older if you went on to further education.
At 25 I was an older first time mum.