What age do YOU personally think is too old for YOU to have a/more babies and why?

[Jaaxe]

Just curious as to what age you’d stop having babies and why? How old would be too old for you and why? I’ve just had a baby and I thought I’d be done after this one but now im not so sure, it all seems pretty final to say im done but maybe I am….maybe it’s the hormones, I certainly don’t want another anytime soon or maybe even at all but then I wonder if I did decide im not done how old is too old :/ perhaps im just feeling like this as this one was meant to be my last one…

Early 40's and def done. Had our first mid 20's and 2nd. Early 30's.

With our oldest, we had MIL helping where she could. She passed when our youngest was little and since then, it is just us. No help apart from paid help. Our oldest can help a bit now with babysitting.

I love having more freedom, and I fucking hated the toddler years with my youngest and refuse to repeat it.

I had my pretty young. So given those circumstances I would never have another child over the age of 30 tops.

However, if I'd hadn't had any children then I'd say I'd happy to have one up till about 42.

Knowing what I know now. Glad I had them young. I'm still under 50 with all children over 25.

It's heaven.

30. I didn't want to have kids later than that as I wanted to be youngish when they left home.

I had my first at 22 and my last at 38 with 2 in between. Youngest is almost 4 and I’m knackered!

I'm super broody but couldn’t do it again

I had one at 33 and one at 43. It was easier at 43!

Isn’t the question more ‘when you’ve had the babies you want’?

I mean, if I decided 42 was my absolute cut off and I couldn’t bear to have a baby past this age, would I stop TTC at exactly 41 and 3 months? I doubt many people would, to be honest.

Very easy to say ‘absolutely no more babies for me past the age of 35’ when you had completed your family aged 33, isn’t it?

I'm 40 and will have a 16yo in a few months time. There's no way I would want to be pregnant just now or in the baby stages. My youngest is going to be 6yo this year.

My cut off was 35, had youngest at 34.

My own personal cut off was always 35. I actually had my third and last at 33.

10 years after the youngest.
would be horrified to fall pregnant now, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and are looking forward to down sizing / retirement in about 10 years time.

35 for me. I just couldn't be still doing school runs in my 50's. I have a couple of friends in this situation and they are menopausal and run ragged. One was so upset before Christmas because someone mistook her for the child's grandmother. She was so upset. She tried for years to conceive and fell pregnant at 43. She adores her daughter but finds it so hard keeping up with a 7 year old.

First at 30, second at 32 and third at 36.
Done now but I found my second much harder than my third. Having a toddler and a baby at home was exhausting.
Now I have to school age kids who are fairly independent and who I don't need to watch all the time. My 8 months baby's been a decent sleeper so that probably helps. It feels like the past 8 months have gone super fast and I haven't felt more tired because of my age.
Now I am definitely done.

I'm 36 now, I had my first at 31 and second at 34. If someone could hand me a third, I would say yes!! However my mental health is a long term struggle and my pregnancies/post natal times made things a lot worse. I'd be scared to risk it again, especially as my eldest has sen.
However, if I was in a position to go for a third, I think 40/41 would be the limit. And that in itself would make me worry, e.g. more risks and possible complications due to age.

I don't want to let go of any baby things yet, 'just in case'. Does anyone else feel like that?

I had 3DC before I was 30, and I'm definitely done. 15 month age gap between the two youngest. DS has autism, he still doesn't sleep through the night, and I'm exhausted. Every now and then, I think I'd like another, but I soon remember that life is hard enough as it is just now.

Personally, the day after I gave birth to my one and only, I decided I was too old for any more babies.

I always said 35 was my limit but we’ve been trying for a third since I was 34 and I’m now 36. I’m worried about everything but I am still so desperate to complete my family

Could possibly depend how many you already have? I had 3rd at 33 and I knew that every last bit of oomph had been squeezed out of me to make these amazing babies
Late 40s now and I know a lot of people over last few years having first baby after 35 but they also seem more dynamic than I ever was

seriously could not imagine having an under 10 now…they are exhausting 🤣

35, I’m 35 now and pregnant with my third after a large age gap and I’m about to keel over with exhaustion.

Had it been under my control it would have been 35, however didn't meet DH until about then plus fertility issues meant DC1 arrived a whisker before I turned 40. 42 was my cut off point for DC2 but it didn't happen, I desperately wanted another so kept trying despite having told myself that I should stop. If I could do it over I'd have them a good 10 years earlier (am definitely getting wrinkly now/I'm a little sad that they'll only ever have known an old wrinkly mum and will it affect them seeing their friends mums being much younger and fresher, plus I would have loved to be young enough to help them with their families/grandchildren should they have them, but life didn't turn out that way). Hoping that I won't drop dead whilst they are still young - my parents are still alive and compos mentis in their 70's and my great grandmother lived to 99, hoping it bodes well for me too!

I'm 35 and have no interest in having kids past 40. In an ideal world I'd like 4 kids but realistically 2 - we only had our first last year.

I'm 43 and would love another if we were ten years younger and earned more. But at my age and our wages it would be too hard.

I'm not sure it's a particular age as such, more a sense of knowing when you have had your last.
I am 100% certain I want no more children despite knowing I have a few more years left to have one of I did want one putting aside the fact that DH has had a vasectomy to make sure we have no more!!

I knew I didn't feel finished after DS1, which was hard because he was a very much longed for IVF miracle so there was certainly no guarantee of a second. After my second, and since, I just know I'm done.

I stopped at 42 after my second. Would have loved another one but had HG twice for the full 9 months and couldn’t go through it again.
No problems conceiving.

I would quite happily have gone for a first up until mid forties if my career went well enough to pay for the help I needed.

I had my last at 40 and I hate that my dc is still in primary school when I'm 50.
I've no
Opinions on anyone else. It's just my thing.
Personally, I wish I'd had my last at 38

I'm 32, this pregnancy has been so much harder than previous. Definitely my last