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Just thought i'd add this fact, i was reading in the Melbourne MX today (for those of you that are not familiar it's basically just a tabloid 20 page print for commuters of an evening) the average age for first time mum's these days, is 29.8 years. I'm about to make a follow up thread about the article as well, some of you might be interested, im not sure where to post it yet though.
I went shopping with my Aunt today, and i told her about my friend who is 8 weeks pregnant with twins. My Aunt's reply was oh no. I said she's really happy, and in a stable relationship so why not? My Aunt said but she's so young, my friend is 22, she'll turn 23 just after bubs are born. Anyway when we got to the checkout there were these two girls there admiring Brendan :D and 1 said ooo I can't wait to have kids (she would've been 18ish), and the other said nah i'm waiting till i'm 28 or so(also about 18ish). I thought this was very interesting and I said to the girls, Age doesn't matter as long as you are in a stable realtionship and are 100% sure in what you want. My Aunt happened to disagree and said ooh noo even 24 is too young, you don't know what you want at that age. My Aunt had her baby last year at 34, she struggled so much because she was so set in a routine and a baby had come along a messed it up. My point is, that if we were not meant to be mum's at 18, 20, even 24, then we wouldn't get our period would we???????
oops hadn't quite finished, my point was that age doesn't matter as long as we do our job as mummy.
Sally, im replying to your most recent post here, but in our young mums thread...
im now 23, i had just turned 22 when i had my boy and i got put into a young mum under 25 i hated it.
i just hate the stares you get from the older people.
im glad to be a young mum
A young mum these days is 25 and under really. Maybe even under 30. I like being a young mum!