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I had mine at 31 and almost 33. I think I had mine at a good age--had a chance to live my life and be selfish before having kids.
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Yes, for sure, but then again I really enjoyed my 20s so I have no regrets. I feel like I partied and did all the things I wanted to do when I was younger (especially travelling!) so I was ready to have kids after we got married. I met my husband later (30) and we didn't have our first child until I was almost 35 and had our second when I was almost 38. It all worked out except that I'm exhausted all the time b/c I'm just old.
Now you know how old I am. 
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No, I am about to turn 30 and will have my first shortly thereafter. If anything, I feel too young and unprepared! If anything, I wish we had been married a bit longer so we could have enjoyed married life more before beginning this adventure, but... life had other plans!
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@Ms.Pumpkin: This! "While I would have loved to have met him earlier and gotten started on this earlier, we've both had so many experiences that have made us who we are"
@Mrs. Bee: My initial reaction was yes, but then I thought about it and agree completely with @Ms.Pumpkin. I am expecting our first LO now at age 38. I met DH at age 33, we got married at age 35, started TTC right away but I was 37 before we got PG. In theory, I do wish we had LO #1 earlier because I am worried if we will have success at TTC for #2, but I still wouldn't change anything!
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Only wish I had met DH earlier! Love having his babies and wouldn't have wanted them with anyone I'd dated prior.
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Goodness no! I had #1 at 17. I'm 25 now, and have 2 LOs and looking back, I don't regret getting pregnant. I still got the degree I wanted in the amount of time I wanted. The only thing I "miss out on" was partying, and I don't care about that. I feel very thankful for the life I've lived thus far.
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@kentuckygirl: congrats on your BFP!
Nope. LO was born a day after I turned 25. I did my undergrad and masters, we took one big international trip, and bought a house with a big chunk of savings before he was born. We were ready! Any earlier and the house would've been less do-able. My parents are older and I want him to remember them, as well. I have family that had fertility issues while young so I was also a little scared we would have issues. Looking forward I being an empty nester at 40
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Part of me wishes I started younger so I would have the energy I feel that I'm lacking. But I'm glad we got to get ourselves to a good place before having a baby.
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Haha nope! It would be awful if I had children any younger. Though I can't regret it because I love my life and I love that we can enjoy the kids while we still have the energy and we will still be young when the kids are all moved out so we will still be able to do all of the things we wanted to do before having children
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Nope! I was 29 when I had ds n still felt toobyoung! I got to do a lot of traveling and enjoying time w dh before that I wouldn't ever wish away before having ds! My mom was 29 when she had me too!
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Yes and no... yes because now infertility issues are doing a loud tick tock in my head ALL the time and I feel a lot of pressure to get moving. Also yes because I love being a mum more than anything else in the world, I would have absolutely loved to have A in my life for longer. But no because I loved my 20s, I went to uni and had a blast, enjoyed a good few years of my career, travelled a lot including a round-the-world trip and moved abroad. I feel all that experience will contribute to the kind of parent I can be to our kids. I'm 33 so no spring chicken, ha.
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Not really, but it would have been nice to have a younger body to carry the pregnancy, and if we'd had kids a couple years ago we'd have still been on the east coast, closer to our families. But we were lucky and got pregnant pretty quickly once we felt ready.
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Nope! I was 24 when I got pregnant and 25 when she was born and it was the perfect age for me. I've always wanted to be a younger mom.
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No! Only because that would have meant having a child with someone that is not my husband, as we only got together in my early 30s.
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Nope, I liked being child free in my 20s. Plus I probably would have struggled and not had my house and loans paid off.
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Sometimes I do wish we were younger when we got pregnant. I was 32 when I had him. Turning 34 next week, so the clock is ticking again. It took 4 months to conceive LO so I don't want to wait too long on his sibling for age spacing and pregnancy health in general. We married when I was 29, so we started married life a little later too.
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no. DH and i had a good time dating and then married and i think it was timed well in terms of our age (i was a month shy of 29 when DD was born). we still want to travel and bring LO along for the ride! we have a lot to achieve professionally, but it's not a hindrance, but a reason to keep moving forward for us.
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I'm 31 and LO is arriving in April. DH will turn 32 before then. We met right after I turned 25 and got married when I was 27. I have no regrets. We have enjoyed our time just the two of us and I think we have established a healthy marriage that will be a great benefit to our little boy and any future LOs.
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I had LO at 31 last year and no way would I have had her earlier..I had too much carefree fun in my 20s.
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I'm 30 and expecting our first, due a few months before 31. Met DH at 24 but lived in different states, engaged at 27 and married 28. He's 6 years older. We'd love slews of children.
I don't think our timeline could have moved much faster but I do often think if we'd met earlier it might have been nice. Don't think I gained all that much from years of unfulfilling dating and single life, really. And now I feel like I'd like to be a SAHM for a bit but there's all this career pressure because of a graduate degree and student loans that I didn't have in my early 20s. So that's kind of annoying. But maybe with kids I never would have gone back to school or pursued the field I'm in, and would regret that. Or maybe I'd be plenty fulfilled by motherhood and never care. Who knows!
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No way. I had DS at 22 and will have this one at 23. I'm enjoying being a young mom and will be glad to have all of our kids before 30 but I can't imagine being any younger. As it is, giving up our newlywed married freedom this young has been hard -- but my son is worth it!
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Nope. I just had my LO at 25. But I've graduated, I have a solid career, dh is a lawyer, we've traveled Europe and many places around the US, and we own our home. We've been together since hs, so we were ready!!
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Nope! I'm 29 now having my first in a few months and it feels like exactly the right time for me. My 20s were busy with undergrad and law school, starting a job, getting married, buying and furnishing a home, traveling with my husband, etc. I'm glad we had all those experiences and we are where we are now with our home and our jobs before we started with kids. I'm sure we could've made it work otherwise, but having everything else in our life feel so settled and accomplished makes having a kid seem far less stressful to me.
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I'm 35, and I have a 21 month old and another on the way this summer. I do wish I was a younger mom at times, BUT I loved my 20's! I look back at those years rather fondly. I had great jobs, got to travel, and had fun 'getting it out of my system'. Now I am married and a stay-at-home mom. Life couldn't be more different now than it was then!
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No. I met DH at 22, married at 24, was 26 with my first and will be 27 with my second. I might be done by 30, which would be nice.
I kind of wish we had waited. I think we made the best decisions for us at the time. We both went to grad school at the same time because I didn't want to be the wife who put him through school while talking about how one day I would go back myself. I was sick for most of grad school with some chronic health problems, so we decided to try right away in case I was infertile. I wasn't, and was pregnant when I walked.
Of course this means we have been poor our whole marriage! I wish we had had a few years of just working and making money. My sisters and friends go on fancy trips, buy new clothes, do things for themselves. I have no idea what that is like! I feel like my twenties have been all work and responsibility. It would have been nice to have a little fun.
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No. I was 25 when my boys were born, definitely wasn't ready before then for babies! If anything, if I would have known we would have twins when we got pregnant, I would have held off for another year or so. But only if I knew I was still going to get these exact boys.
It was quite a shock to go from 0 to 2 at once. 2 was always our number, so if I knew if get them both at once, I'd feel like we have more time before having kids.
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I'm 22 so I can't have picked to be much younger. Lol
DH and I are financially stable and have been married for almost 3 years. We both felt ready to start a family. Plus since my family has always had children young, LO has lots of years with his great grandparents ahead of him. My Mamaw only just turned 66.
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No, but I had lo at 22 so as @danizaur said..couldn't be much younger. There have been times throughout the past year or so that I have said to dh that in a way I would have dealt with some of this better as a teenager! But that's just my personality kind of stuff, sleep needs, etc., and overall of course I would NOT have been better off. I also don't regret not waiting though.
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Nope. I was 23 when I had W. Any younger and I wouldn't have been done with school or had a stable job!
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I think my kids came at the perfect time in our lives. But I wish I had more energy and wish there wasn't such an age gap. My hubby and I are 40 and 36 when this baby arrives. That was the diff between my dad and his mom and she had 9 kids. I never wanted such an age gap, but o well.
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Yes. If it were up to me I would have been married by 22 and had kids by 23. Didn't work out that way.
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A big f* yes! I would have started on our wedding night had I known it would take 2 years to get pregnant. Being responsible and having enough money doesn't mean anything now. I would give up anything to be pregnant.
I don't curse that often but for this question, I will.
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Definitely yes. I was 32 when I got pregnant and 33 when I had him. I've been in my established career for 7 years, and wish DH and I had been together sooner to start sooner! But, it is what it is.
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Haha no way! I'll stick with 22 thank you very much! I suppose I'm considered a fairly young Mum but I'm glad I had my LO when I did. It didn't take much for me to get back in to shape, and he gets to enjoy his grandparents for longer. I've always been a bit upset that I didn't get to meet one set of grandparents and I didn't get much time with my other set.
On the other hand I'm glad I wasn't any younger because at 22 I had a good education, qualifications, and a steady job to support my family as did my 25 year old partner. -
Lol, no. I had my son at 23.
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Not really - I couldn't imagine having kids in my early to mid 20's. Late 20's would probably have been doable, but it didn't work out that way and I'm fine with that.
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I was 29 when LO was born and I love the timing.
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no, i thoroughly enjoyed my 20s and early 30s, but I am very grateful that I was able to have 2 kids--my first at 37, and the 2nd at 40, I was worried that my age would make it difficult. I'm going to be 42 this year, and I do wish I had more energy, it's hard keeping up with 2.
Now you know how old I am. 
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