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Am I too young?

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MaisieRed · 05/04/2021 20:22

Hello this is my first thread.
To basically summarise it. Me and my fiancé really want a baby but I don’t know if I’m too young.
We both have good jobs, renting, don’t go out very much; very happy in each others company.
We’ve been engaged for a year and a half now, and I always said I would be married before I had kids but now I don’t want to wait to organise everything and wait for the big day. I now feel like I want to have a kid first.
I will be 21 this year and he will be 22 this year. We both really want a baby. And we are in a committed loving relationship so why not?
I just don’t know whether I am too young. I don’t feel like being a younger mother would be too much of an issue. But this thought in my mind is telling me will I be judged for having a baby at 21.
Please can someone help and put my mind at ease.
Am I wrong for wanting a baby in my early 20s?!

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Babydancing2020 · 09/01/2022 09:49

When you've got ur life together and know what it means having a child and the responsibilities with it you're never too young;)
Im 23 pregnant with baby 3. Any questions please do send a message x

Derbee · 09/01/2022 14:20

I know a lot of people don’t have a choice, but I wouldn’t want to have a baby and rent. At your age, you’ve got time to save for a secure house, and then have a baby. Don’t waste money on a big wedding, use your income to secure a stable home etc.

pompei8309 · 09/01/2022 18:36

Babydancing2020 - do you have your life together ?? 24 with three kids don’t really seem that way. Forgive me if I’m wrong .

Babydancing2020 · 09/01/2022 20:08

Yes I do in fact. Me and my partner were always quite more mature then our age.
We've got a lovely house,he is self employed and Im a lactation consultant working in a hospital on the post natal ward luckily very flexible hours through out the week so I can be home with little one and pick up my eldest from school. Lovely 2 sons one just started reception and the other has just turned 1.

Babydancing2020 · 09/01/2022 20:09

@pompei8309

Babydancing2020 · 09/01/2022 20:10

And the third is due somewhere in august if Im not wrong,I haven't had my booking appointment yet nor my scan.

Babydancing2020 · 09/01/2022 20:16

And I do understand that it might not seem that I have my life together,people always think that of me since Im only 23. Unfortuntately people nowadays still cover a book by its cover but thankfully with hard work and sacrifice i not only got my own life together. But all that of other mums I got to help out with their breastfeeding journey and still am.

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