Last baby age

[Teeki]

My Mum had me when she was 21 and my brother when she was 24, all her friends had kids at a similar age. Then when one of her newer friends had her first child at 30, Mum was all "oh my gosh I could never have kids that late, she'll be nearly 50 when this one leaves home and what about if they have more?" So from a young age I thought having kids at 30 or more was very late.

But then I got to my 20s, and life goes by so quickly! There's studying, building a career, travel, buying property - all those things you might want to do, and you've gotta find the right guy, get married if you want, be together long enough to know you want kids together. Suddenly kids at 30 makes perfect sense!

For me, I met DH when I was 21. We knew pretty early on that this was it. We knew we wanted marriage and kids, and I said I'd like kids before 30, because I could, and I figured I'd like to be younger with my kids and do traveling or whatever after. So I had my first when I was 26, my second when I was 28.

Most of my friends - my good friends from uni - don't have kids. One just got married and turned 30, one is engaged and the third is more into travel. I don't think they're waiting too long, I just think they have different priorities than me, they've traveled and preferred to be able to spend their weekends going out all night whereas I've preferred staying home and my traveling is camping.

[peanutter]

I wanted to have all my kids by 30, which I did - but if I hadn't finished (and hey, never say never) I'm not sure whether I'd set myself a "cut off" date.