Last baby age

[PumpkinZulu]

For me, 30 is when I want to be done. We had a family young for that exact reason, I want to be having babies in my biological prime, and DH and I want to travel in our 40's when we can really afford to enjoy it

[Nai]

For a variety of reasons - one was that I never actually wanted kids until much later when I changed my mind - I had DD1 when I was 34 and DD2 when I was 37. I've never felt old and had pretty boring pregnancies - no morning sickness, no SPD, no GD, no high BP. I think you deal with what you get and whatever age you are at you don't tend to feel that it is old. I still don't feel old

[MummyNaomi]

For a variety of reasons - one was that I never actually wanted kids until much later when I changed my mind - I had DD1 when I was 34 and DD2 when I was 37. I've never felt old and had pretty boring pregnancies - no morning sickness, no SPD, no GD, no high BP. I think you deal with what you get and whatever age you are at you don't tend to feel that it is old. I still don't feel old

It must be a Naomi thing - I had DS at 34 and DD at 37. Also didn't feel old or find the pregnancies hard (conceiving, well that was another story)
I meet DH when I was 31, so wasn't with anyone I wanted to have children with prior to my 30s, so that really drove the age rather than any other factors

[milly5]

When I was younger I always imagined late 20's to early 30's would be when (if???) I had kids.
Reality - uni, career, travel and the fact that I didn't meet DH until early 30's - and then we weren't in a position to have kids (financially, emotionally, until mid 30s at least.
Then when we did try I had losses and difficulty TTC.
But we had DD1 when I was 38 and DD2 when I was 40. And our next arrivals - well I am now 42 (I prefer to say celebrating the 21st anniversary of my 21st birthday LOL). We would have liked to have #3 earlier, but again we had some difficulties with m/c & TTC, so are just so happy that we have our #3 - and bonus #4! - on the way. But this is definitely it for us.
so in answer to your question - we started TTC when I was 36, had our first at 38, and our last at 42.

just another thought - a friend of mine started her family way younger than me (her oldest is now 17) and she has 3, which she deliberately spaced 5 years apart so that she only had one very small child to deal with at a time (as the oldest was now at school). I like that my kids play together, however, It worked for her, and the older kids are quite responsible with their jobs to help.

whatever works for you and your circumstances really.