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I'd prefer to be done by 35.

I would like to be done by then, but only because I had my first at 26 and I don't want them spaced out that much, not due to age really.

I would like to but it may not happen. We started TTC when I had just turned 29. I'll be at the tail end of 31 when I have this LO. So it's possible but who knows.

If we have a third I will be 35+ Since I will be 35 in a few months and just had #2. I don't regret the way we have done things and it's nice to be secure in life....but I'm sure I would have had much more energy if we had had kids 10 years ago.

I really enjoyed being free in my 20's and early 30's to roam the world, enjoy my weekends, sleep in. I grew much more patient after 35 and feel like for me personally, I'm a much better mama than I would have been earlier. I'll never know for sure, but I have a strong feeling that I would have lost my temper with children while younger.

Oh and I'm in a much better position to support kids financially now.

No.

I will be 33 when LO #2 arrives and if we have a third I very much doubt it will happen before 35 since I need a substantial break between babies. I guess being done by 37 would be nice.

I'm 28 with two LOs. I'm two and through, but if we were to entertain the idea of three, I would hope to be done by 35.

I've always wanted to have kids in my mid to late 20s with hopes of having more energy to keep up with them, and hopefully be around for a long while. The majority of my 20s were spent in school and grad school, so luckily we were a military family, and I did my traveling throughout my childhood. We started ttc when I was 26, and I'll be 27 or 28 when lo is born (lo due two days before my bday). I always imagined I'd be done by 30, but having had Hyperemesis this first time around, I have no desire to go through this all over again once LO is a year just to hopefully conceive and deliver by 30!

I would have no issue TTC at 35; I'm 33 and don't see myself turning into an old woman in 2 years. I'd much rather TTC at 35 than at 25, or younger.

I'm currently 36 and pregnant with our first. If I'd had a choice I would have had kids a couple of years ago. But I had to meet and marry my husband first! I do feel more financially and emotionally ready now.

I'm really hoping to be done by then, but that has everything to do with my current age and goals. If I'd settled down later in life I would have no problem TTC at 35, but that's not how life worked out.

I think if I had really stopped to think about it, I might have said I'd prefer to be done before 35. Even though we got married when I was 28 and he was 26 (almost 27), we were never any rush to have kids. It was a combination of as @Mrs. Jacks and @BandDMommy said, we were busy traveling the world, establishing our careers, and also both working on our Masters at the same time. Those would all have been difficult to do with LOs. We're happy with our decision to have kids now, and luckily got pregnant right away. I'll be 34 when LO comes, and because we're hoping for one more, will likely be TTC at 35+. No regrets.

Hope not, married at 29.5, turn 32 in 3 weeks and have a 2 month old DD, I think we are done with her because the earliest I would like to have another one is in 3 years and I don't think I could do this again at 35!!

I want to be done by 39-40. Had my first at 32.

I had always hoped to have my family complete by 35.. that meant 2 under 30, one under 35. Obviously life didn't work out that way for us.

@blackbird: ha, thank you!! I was beginning to get a complex.

No. Noooooooooooo. I would have loved to be done by 30, but I'll be 31 when I deliver this summer. I'm at a great place now - old enough to feel ready, in all the important ways, but still pretty young, all things considered.

I think a lot has to do when you met your SO. Sure it sounds great to be done by the time you are 35. But if you didn't meet your SO until late in life this is not a possibility. A lot of other factord such as fertility comes into play as well.