General Chat

is there a pattern of having children at a 'later' age in your family? ( 37, 37, 37 runs through mine lol) and do you think it made for you being less or more stressed as a parent ?

I was less so in the sense that I'd had more to do with children at 37 than I would have had in my early 20s say...but now less energetic to have a teenager around maybe lol

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nope both my grandparents were 21 when they married and had their first born both had children late one was 45 when she had my aunt, my mum was 30 and my sisters and I were teens now my eldest is nearly 25 and I am no where near being a Granny **pouts **

Tenages keep you young hun

I only have1 teen left :(((((

Hayley! shocked! I thought you were 33 or so ;)

lol Joy it must be something else that's making me feel old then :)

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errmmm I am ish....39 this year Rose **averts eyes ***

hmmm Hayley, i think you would have done well as a census enumerator in the 1800s ...a lttle 'generous' with the ages :)

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I was thinking today ......if in 100 years time if people will still be tracing their family history or will be laughed at.....I am gunna be a nightmare I have made it mylifes work....pmsl

I was 10 years older than the rest of my family in starting a family...partly because I didn't meet my OH til I was 25/26 and partly because I had problems having children so it took me a few years more.

Having said that...I was one of the first in my group of friends to have a baby ( I was 30 when I had eldest) and my friend who is the same age as me has just had her second and final baby so I think the trend, certainly in the circles I move in ..is to have them slightly later on

I definately wasn't ready to have children til I was in my mid to late twenties....would've been useless , I was very unhappy in those days and I don't think I would've had the patience that I have now.x

Bet you had a good time " practising " McMuff lol

I was 38 when my first arrived & 41 the second.

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Those were the days McB lol !! xx

I was 35 when i had my 1st & nearly 38 when i had my 2nd.....as for being more stressed out i have no idea as i have nothing to compare it with.

My son will be 13 soon & i can still run faster than him, yes we had a race to my car in Tescos carpark on Saturday lol

Im glad i had my child when i did cos through my twentys i was enjoying myself & i didn't meet my OH untill i was 33

I couldnt imagine starting a family now but I have been a mother since I was nearly 18 so couldnt imagine my life without my children.... on the whole although it was a struggle I am glad I was young when I had my family as Now I am still young and used to enjoy partying with them...lol

My mum, me, and my son all had our first children (well my son's wife did), just before our 21st birthdays....so it's not to hard to guess when I'll be a great Grandmother lol. Before that though, children came later, because marriage came later usually.

I agree with Hayley, I'm glad I had mine young, I grew with them, and was still young enough to enjoy (most of) their music, and be welcomed by them and their friends if I walked into a pub where they were.

The pub part i still have to wait and find out but i was never a pub person anyways, always at the clubs dancing.......OMD's...we all like the same music lolol. my 2 have grown up with music always playing be it if we were in doors or in the car

To be honest Teresa, i think its more about the relationship you have with your children rather than it be an age thing

I was 18 when i married, 21 when i had my first daughter, it went wrong, (it was always wrong) but i had second daughter, got divorced, :)

That's also very true Julie, though the age gap between myself and my parents, seemed so much bigger than that between me and my kids. I can't see my mum ever spending a day following me around Camden Market looking for a goth hat to wear LOL.

I was 3 months off my 19th birthday with my first.... 3 months after my 20th with my second. I am so pleased I had mine young.

I did think I would be a young granny, as a result, but had to wait until I was almost 51 for my first little treasure, and then the second came along the following year.

I can't wait to be trailed around all the fashionable shops by them when they get a bit older, lolol I get into practice by being dragged around by my beautiful nieces at the moment... and can hand them back if they get brattish, lolol

Love

Daff xxxx

Lol Wend.... it was a close run thing for a while there... I nearly did push up the daisies this time last year, and am not out of the woods yet... and I am all the more determined to be around for the shopping trips, boyfriend angst, and the * I'm running away to live with Granny* lolol!!

Nobody stops this girl when she is determined, not even Him Upstairs, lolol

Love

Daff xxxx

I was 21 when I had my first, she was 27 when she had her first
I was 26 when I had my second and he was 29 when he had his first (well his wife did).

My Mum was 31 when she had me her first, although she miscarried the previous year.