Age when you had your first child?

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Morning everyone! I'm doing a paper for development psych (ugh) and was wondering how old most of you were when you had your first child and what you think the best age to start a family is. I appreciate your responses in advance!

I was 16 when I had my first child. She was a beautiful baby girl. It was definitely to young!!!! But, on the flip side, she is the reason that I am what I am today. I had to strive to obtain my education, to provide the life I wanted for her. She is now 19 and I am very proud of her. My hopes for her is that she gets her education before children. It was very hard and I had alot of long, sleepless nights.;)

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Specializes in L&D,Wound Care, SNC.

I just had my first child, a little girl at 28, but I turned 29 a month later.

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Specializes in L&D,Lactation.

1st at 16

2nd at 30

In between I became an RN. My daughter, the second one, I really did not want to go the early baby route, I wanted her to get an education first. So I took her to Take Your Daughters to Work Day at age 14-15-16. It worked I guess because she is almost 24 and no kids and still in school working on the education

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, Long Term,Ortho.

First son at age 18 second son 4 months ago I am 31. Big age gap yeah I know I feel like I am starting all over form scratch.

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Specializes in L&D.
So anybody out there that had their first baby @ 30-32 yo & now have them out of the house, do you still feel young in your 50s? I look @ my husband & my parents in their 40s & they aren't lively @ all. In my opinion I think them having kids so young & being super poor took a toll on their energy over the yrs. I guess it doesn't help that they don't eat right or exercise!

My parents had us in there young 20's. They are now mid 50's, retired early and living a great life on the ocean! I don't think they would have done it any differently.

I had my daughter at 24, my son at 25 and I wouldn't have done it any differently either. I was married for over 3 years when we had my daughter. We both had associates degrees (not in nursing though), lived paycheck to paycheck, but we were always very happy, attentive parents and very hard working as well.

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30 and no babies w/ no plans for babies either. My jusband already has a vesectomy. We love the freedom, the money, our close relationships w/ our friends and family.

We've never missed having kids and every time we see parents dealing w/ some little terror out in public we just smile and think "Whew...smart choice!"

Personally I think as far as the number of kids go, you should replace yourselves but no more. Overpopulation and dwindling resources is going to make the future an ugly, uncomfortable existence for today's kids and grandkids.

Meanwhile...we just bought a vacation home and we have no financial worries AT ALL. It's nice.

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Specializes in L&D.
30 and no babies w/ no plans for babies either. My jusband already has a vesectomy. We love the freedom, the money, our close relationships w/ our friends and family.

We've never missed having kids and every time we see parents dealing w/ some little terror out in public we just smile and think "Whew...smart choice!"

Personally I think as far as the number of kids go, you should replace yourselves but no more. Overpopulation and dwindling resources is going to make the future an ugly, uncomfortable existence for today's kids and grandkids.

Meanwhile...we just bought a vacation home and we have no financial worries AT ALL. It's nice.

Now I'm 33, dh is 37 both have BS degrees and bringing home 6 figures. We have nice newer vehicles, (no car payments though), a beautiful home, jobs we love, lots of time with our family. Just because someone has children, doesn't mean they have financial worries.

Dh had a vasectomy 7 years ago, and now we're wishing he hadn't. We love children and now would like to have more. Adoption may be in our future. I can't imagine what my life would be like without children. Children bring so much joy to our lives. We have "things" AND a wonderful family.

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Specializes in L&D.

We've never missed having kids and every time we see parents dealing w/ some little terror out in public we just smile and think "Whew...smart choice!"

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When we see parents dealing c some little "terror out in public" we think, "Whew...we're glad our children aren't like that". Not all children are "terrors in public". And we feel like we've done very well with raising our children as well-rounded and good manners.

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#1 at 20 years of age

#2 at 22 years of age

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Specializes in RN-OB, Postpartum, Neonatal Nursing.

#1 miscarried at 24

# 2 I was 26

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21, but one should really be about 50.

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