Older than average parents.

[Bobbleowl90]

I worked with a girl who’s parents had her at 35. I remember her saying how they advised her to have children younger as they were much older than their parent peers in her playgroup group and they didn’t like it.

My parents had both ends of the spectrum - they were the youngest parents with my brothers and the oldest parents with me! Yet I’m almost 31 and planning my second child and don’t feel old at all!

 

[noseybirdxo]

My mum was 36 with my brother and 41 when she had me, my dad was 40 and 45 for me - my parents were always considerably older than my friends. I’m 26 and my mum is 68 this year and my boyfriends mum is 49

 

[Kim Mild]

It was the opposite for me, growing up everyone I knew had ‘older’ parents, only child or not. (Grew up in a very rural area) My parents were in their mid20s when they had me & were the youngest parents in the playground. They always felt like they were being judged for their age.
I’m 39 & about to have my 4th, the only difference I can see on a practical level is the amount of energy I have this pregnancy. It’s really take it out of my physically. That said I’d still love one more.

How old were you when you had your first ?I was 21 but 36/ 37 when I had my youngest.

 

[Jdottt13]

My mum was 25 when she had me (I’m also 25 now) and then at 41 with her new partner she had my sister. I was 16 when she had her and I think my mum quite liked the fact I was old enough to look after her and did help out a lot. Mum admits she had a lot more patience for my sister than she ever did with me, which she puts down to being older. I also think it’s kept my mum young, my sisters now 9 and I don’t see her as a 50 year old at all!
I also made her a nanny at 47 so it’s quite funny she’s deemed an older mum yet a young nanny haha!
me and my sister are really close despite a 16 year age gap but it’s definitely borderline maternal instincts with her as well as I helped out so much when she was a baby.
I also have 13 year old & 7 year old siblings (my dads other children) but feel more big sisterly towards them.

 

[JoeBloggs]

My friends dad was in his 60s and here mum was in her 40s. She was an only child. We don’t speak much now but her dad died in his 90s and she ended up staying with her mum well into her 30s to care for her. She’s now a mum of one.

 

[Bobbleowl90]

My mum and dad had me in their mid 30’s. Not old at all really but they had my older brothers in their early 20’s. They were older than all my friends parents and I remember lying about their ages as I was embarrassed. How stupid!

 

[Rippedjeanmaybe]

My mum was 31 and my dad was 35 when I was born (they separated when I was 5 and never lived together). I started school in the millennium and most of my class mates had young parents. I remember one girl thought my dad was my grandad (probably didn’t help that he was bald).

My Nan was 32 and my grandad was 36 when my mum was born (she’s the youngest of 7), so my grandparents were already into their sixties, nearly seventies when I came along. I also had no living great grandparents.

My nan’s mum had my Nan when she was 33, she was the first and only child, which was quite unusual in 1932. My great Nan went through the menopause not long after.

I think the only thing I disliked about my my mum’s age was that she never seemed to have any energy. A lot of my class mates had young mums that would run around and be silly with them, my mum always seemed permanently exhausted!

 

[Ceelea]

Wow... He came close to living in three centuries !