Age of Moms When Kids are Born

[Michie]

People have kids at a wide range of ages, but the moments tend towards where we are in life. There are social norms and biological norms. Based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, we can see how these ranges shift by child number.

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Age of Moms When Kids are Born

 

[Sabertooth]

For my wife,

#1 @ 24,
#6 @ 33 &
#10 [last] @ 40.​

 

[Michie]

My mother was married and had me at 17.

 

[Gnarwhal]

It won't be her first child—she had twins at 21—but if we're able to have kids she'll be at least 39 when that child is born. I just pray that if it be God's will for us to have kids, that both mom and baby remain in perfect health.

My mom was 33 when she had me and 37 when she had my sister, both of us were completely healthy. So it's not impossible! The doctors had even told my mom she should abort my sister because they detected some kind of severe disability or life threatening disease, I can't remember what. My mom refused and my sister has always been perfectly healthy throughout her life. Not a single issue.

 

[Michie]

It won't be her first child—she had twins at 21—but if we're able to have kids she'll be at least 39 when that child is born. I just pray that if it be God's will for us to have kids, that both mom and baby remain in perfect health.

My mom was 33 when she had me and 37 when she had my sister, both of us were completely healthy. So it's not impossible! The doctors had even told my mom she should abort my sister because they detected some kind of severe disability or life threatening disease, I can't remember what. My mom refused and my sister has always been perfectly healthy throughout her life. Not a single issue.

Praying for your intentions!

 

[Ezana]

Was just talking to a colleague and found out all his great-grandparents are alive... and they're only in their 70's!

 

[Michie]

Was just talking to a colleague and found out all his great-grandparents are alive... and they're only in their 70's!

Are they from the south? That’s pretty common there.

 

[mourningdove~]

For my wife,

#1 @ 24,
#6 @ 33 &
#10 [last] @ 40.​

May God bless your wife, abundantly, in her vocation as Mother.

It is quite impressive to me, whenever I learn these days of Mothers of many children.
Motherhood (at any age) is potentially one of the most self-less professions in our society ...
often one of the most underrated ...
and yet, it is one of the most important.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Was just talking to a colleague and found out all his great-grandparents are alive... and they're only in their 70's!

Man that's wild, my dad is going to be 75 this year... to think some people's great-grandparents are his age blows my mind.

 

[Michie]

Man that's wild, my dad is going to be 75 this year... to think some people's great-grandparents are his age blows my mind.

My grandmother got married at 12 in the hills of Tennessee.

 

[Gnarwhal]

My grandmother got married at 12 in the hills of Tennessee.

That's unreal, but then that's what mankind did for centuries up until about 100 years ago.

 

[Michie]

That's unreal, but then that's what mankind did for centuries up until about 100 years ago.

She was very, very poor. Her mother was an Indian woman in an abusive marriage. Or so they thought. He had another wife as well. She became very ill with cancer and my grandmother fell in love and got married with her mother’s blessing. Back then the lifespan was shorter so it was not all that uncommon in the south.

 

[Gnarwhal]

She was very, very poor. Her mother was an Indian woman in an abusive marriage. Or so they thought. He had another wife as well. She became very ill with cancer and my grandmother fell in love and got married with her mother’s blessing. Back then the lifespan was shorter so it was not all that uncommon in the south.

Sounds similar to pre-modern times, like the Medieval and Renaissance ages.

 

[Ezana]

Man that's wild, my dad is going to be 75 this year... to think some people's great-grandparents are his age blows my mind.

Pretty crazy... I mean, they are from a very small town (technically a village) in the mountains of British Columbia, so it is in keeping with the rural trend. He's got a little over 100 relatives on his mother's side alone!

 

[Chrystal-J]

I knew a gal who took her 14 yr old son to Kentucky to marry him off. But, Kentucky officials said you'd have to be from Kentucky for that and sent her packing back to Michigan.