best age to get pregnant?

[nikiti]

which is best age for a woman to get pregnant? also which is the latest age ?

This is a set of very bizarre questions - firstly, so long as a woman feels ready financially, physically and mentally then any time during her adulthood and latest is pretty much any time before menopause... why are you asking out of interest?

Biologically, economically, socially?

Surely it’s an irrelevant question if you don’t have the right set up for you - and everyone’s circumstances are different

Agree it’s such a strange question

Physically 25
Mentally 31
Financially 40

Depends on the woman and the financial situation.

My friend got pregnant at 14, biologically it was good as she was a very fertile teen , but legally not really great, financially not great , mentally not great . Still lived at , in school, not a proper relationship.
My auntie got pregnant at 41, financially great, mentally great, physically not amazing and worn out with work, biologically not very strong as the older you get the harder it is to get pregnant because of your eggs .
So this is a bit of a hard question

I had my first at 22 and am expecting my second at 31.

22 was good as I had more energy and the pregnancy was pretty easy. Downside was being skint and lacking security.

At 31 I'm more financially secure and a lot calmer, but the pregnancy is harder, very sick, very tired.

There's pros and cons at every stage.

I think it depends very much on the individual. Had my first at 33 and I'm actually quite glad about it. (It wasn't by choice, though. We'd been ttc for four years.) We were financially stable and it's still the case that if I want to buy something for DS, I go and buy it. I didn't feel like I had enough time with him, so reduced my hours. I still earn above average, even when working part time.
My parents had us earlier and I feel like we were always short on money when I was growing up. We certainly didn't have the same lifestyle a lot of my friends had.

I conceived dd (only child) at 36. If I'd known it was going to be as easy as it was too concieve (3 months) I would have preferred to have waited a few more years.

So I'm going to say 39 as best age to get pregnant. Career established, financially secure. With a few more years we could have done a bit more traveling and more work on the house (which is now on hold).

Biologically it's definitely early twenties. Fertility very slowly starts to decline thereafter, especially at 30 and again at 35. The words of my GP and also confirmed by expert on a documentary.

However life is obviously not that simple! I had my baby at 28 and that was the perfect time for us. Lots of women have babies late thirties and early forties these days.

There are no straightforward answers to your questions!

Young teens can be more prone to complications such as pre-eclampsia.

Also the risk of obstetric fistula is greater the younger the women is.

I was pregnant at 29 and 35. I was more prepared and healthier and had a better pregnancy at 35 but the following years have been tougher as I’m tireder and needing to work more as he’s my last, I’m not so patient as I was doing it first time round.

On balance early to mid 30's for most, though I was in my 20's and coped fine emotionally and financially, not everyone can though. Much later than you are running an increasing risk of not being able to have kids naturally - though (unlucky me) I'm still fertile at 47 apparently (and don't want to be)

Mid 20s - mid 30s. Just IMO.

as long as you're happily married, it doesn't matter how old you are :-)

I'd say mid 20s would have been perfect for me

as long as you're happily married, it doesn't matter how old you are :-)

Whut. Don’t even know where to begin with that one.

In answer to the OP and their ridiculous question bet she to get pregnant is Twenty Onety Sixteenths Years and Fifty Twentiety monthsey milliseconds.

HTH

25

I was 23yo and that was good for me. I love the fact that now I’m in my early 40s and she’s an adult and although she’s still at home she’s pretty much independent. And I’m still plenty young enough to do stuff I didn’t do when I was younger like travelling, plus I’ve got the money to do it.

Meant to say some people were pessimistic about me having her when I was quite young and said what about doing stuff for yourself....trave, etc. But I wouldn’t really have had the money to,do stuff like that then anyway.

Probably won't be a popular response - but when you find the right man and you both want to become parents. It's a journey you take together, you're a tag team so your relationship needs to be in a good place because it really is an adventure with ups and downs and bumps along the way. I started having children at 36 but that was because it all clicked at the right time. Age was nothing to do with it, it was all about where we were as a couple.

Every person and pregnancy is different.
I'm 26. Seen a lot of comments suggesting this is the ideal time physically, but not financially, or emotionally.
In actual fact the physical side of things is what's been dreadful, and everything else is golden.
Prior to being pregnant I was on a sports team, part of a hiking group, and a HIIT workout team.
During pregnancy I found myself passing out fully clothed, with the lights on, after yoga. I threw up about 4 times a day for over a month. I might as well live on the toilet the amount I wee.
If the physical side of things is drastically worse for older women then I'm one and done.

& I’ve had pretty much the opposite experience from @1Micem0use - ten years older but my pregnancy has been physically easy, I just wasn’t ready. At 26 I was living in a flat share and in a slightly unstable job - it would have been a bad time for me to have a baby then. The age that works for you is hugely variable and depending on so many factors it is impossible to say.

For me it was 37.

40