Average age 1st time mums

[moonsovermiami]

What's the average age of a first time mum in your area?

It's going to depend entirely on the prosperity and social class structure of your area. I saw my midwife at two different GP clinics about a mile apart.

At one, as a first time mother-to-be aged 39, I was roughly a generation older than most of the other women in the waiting room, most of whose mothers were my age or slightly older -- poor area, lots of immigrants from cultures where women weren't typically much educated and married and had children young.

At the other, I was bang on average age. Much more prosperous area, the women in the waiting room were dressed for professional jobs and had presumably postponed having a child for the same reasons I had.

DS attended two primary schools. At one, a small village school, I was probably the oldest mother in his class of 27 and all but one other woman were SAHMs. At the other, there was a much wider age range, and everyone worked. Lots of parents at the local hospitals or university.

What a snooty and stereotyping response!

It's a factual response, lots of studies link age of first baby to geographic area, income demographic and level of education

@Firetreevits pretty much bang on

It's literally factual 😂
It directly answers the question asked in a factual, real life manner

Look it up. There's a correlation between maternal educational level, income and maternal age. Don't blame me if you don't like facts.

I felt very average at 27! With that being said, we must’ve had the widest age range possible in a swim group, the youngest was 18 or so and the oldest was 53, albeit not a first time mum!

It's not.

Probably around 30

Nobody could possibly know unless you had the statistical data for every new mother in your area.

Anything else is just speculation and guess work.

@HeyThereDelila , they should be available on the ONS site

Birth characteristics in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

You could get very specific data from the ONS. But overall, higher educational level means older Mother. Where I live which is a relatively deprived area overall, ex mining at the Primary school I took my child to my nickname was Grandma, I had him when I was 34.

These threads never go well. It’s the most overdone topic ever, that usually ends with everyone feeling bad about themselves 🍿

In my group of privileged SAHMs it’s about 27.

What do you mean by 'privileged', though?

Judging by the amount of 50th and 18th birthdays we have this year, I’d say 32.

39 is not the average age. Don't care how posh you are.

According to Google, it's 31.2 - 32.5 in my area.

Private passive income. Very independent from men and well educated. Family wealth.

Most mums at the reception class gate are in their 40s so I guess 34 to 38.

Not surprising given that a two bed house/flat is £350k+

Hmm I'm not sure how that works They seem to be doing it by local authority. Yet in ours there's a town with pretty deprived areas and an affluent middle class town. So probably anything from people having first child from 15 to 40 lol

32-38 in my middle-class, professional working-mother area - most having moved out from London for a leafy, naice, expensive houses town. A straw poll based on when everyone turned 40 with reception to year 2/3 age children.

29.4 in my area. (Urban town with affluent villages in the area, there are probably teenagers and women in their 40s FTMs)

39 does not sound 'bang on average' for a first time mum anywhere. @LoungingontheSopha

While we all know plenty of women who had babies aged 39 and over, it is not anywhere near average even for a very wealthy area.

My area I'd say 30-34

I’d say early 30s around me. Mostly professionals