How old were you when you had your first baby? Or how old will you be?
By nica269
@nica269 (1395)
United States
62 responses
@nicolecab (923)
• United States
9 May 07
i am 23 and we just had our 1st child. i was married for 1 year before getting pregnat.
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@nicolecab (923)
• United States
11 May 07
i love it!! there is no other purest love that you could ever find and it brings so much joy and happiness to my life. i really feel that my life is complete with him.
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@Melissa528 (744)
• United States
9 May 07
I was 21 years old when I conceived AND when I gave birth to my baby boy.
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@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
9 May 07
I was 24 years old when I had my daughter, Emily. She just turned 19 a couple of months ago. She has a one year old son, Caleb. She had him 3 days before her 18th birthday.
@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
10 May 07
It was very emotional. I am still emotional when I think about it. She should still be a baby...
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@sramsey150 (162)
• United States
9 May 07
Well I was 25 and that to me was ideal for me. Now I want another baby so my daughter will have someone to play with and share things with before I turn 30.I'm 27 now and my husband is almost 35 and he keeps wanting to put it off i don't want to wait that late,i feel he doesn't want to have another one because he feels that his son would get upset,but he's a child he doesn't determine what goes on in my marriage this is between me and my husband an adult matter. Am i wrong for feeling this way?
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@youdontsay (3497)
• United States
10 May 07
Sounds like his son NEEDS you to have another child to help him grow up learning that the world does not revolve around him.
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@sramsey150 (162)
• United States
10 May 07
Thanks you guys for having my back,my husband seems to think that we're just (women) emotional creatures as he would say.
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@leeesa (884)
• United States
10 May 07
Gosh, now that I think about it, I was only 16 when she was born and turned 17 5 months later! Her dad and I were highschool sweethearts. We were separated by his family when I got pregnant (his family forced us apart...of course it was all MY fault) but we reunited 9 years later and married.
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
9 May 07
I married at the age of 27 and had my first baby two years later. The whole family of my husband’s side especial my mother in law was very happy as my hubby is the only son among his six sisters. By then a boy was added to my family and you could imagine how happy they were!
@SheliaLee (2736)
• United States
10 May 07
Hello there!
I was 25 years old when I had my daughter. I had my second child, my son six years later. I got married when I was 22 so we waited a little while before having our first. I wish ours could have been closer together, but our daughter was born with a severe congenital heart problem and it spooked my husband. The first thing he said when we suspected I was pregnant again was "If you are pregnant I hope the baby doesn't have any health problems."
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
9 May 07
I made 26 when I had my first. For my second I will be 28. I've been pregnant forever lol.
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@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
10 May 07
I don't want to have a baby, because I have to earn more and more money for him/her. Now I'm 27, it is not a good age to have a baby. But I'm afraid of loneliness. How lonely it is if my husband and I have no baby when we are old. Frankly, I love children.But I don't think that i can give a better life now.
When I was a child, my family is very poor, so my classmates often laugh me about it. Do you know my feeling? But my parents love me very much. If I were a child, I was not ashamed of being poor. Every pair of couple want to give a better life especially they haven't a better one.
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@nica269 (1395)
• United States
10 May 07
This is just my opinion -
I don't think you are EVER financially ready to have a child, unless you're a multi millionaire like Donald Trump or someone like that.
My husband and i waited (not by choice) to have children 8 years and it was great the first few years, but then we really started feeling an emptiness that wasn't fulfilled with material things, or vacations, or anything else. We were missing our 'family'. So if you asked ME if life would be lonely, i would say no, but i would say that it would be empty.
Poverty plays a big roll, i'm sure, but love plays an even bigger roll in the child's life. You're right, every couple wants to give more than what they had growing up to their children, but that also means more LOVE. I don't think you should judge your situation by how much he or she will cost, but how much you want or need a family of your own. I wish you the best.
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@melissa29 (130)
• United States
10 May 07
I was 22 when my husband and I had our daughter. We were only married 6 months when I found out that I was pregnant. We want another one soon, but not trying right now....lol
@MrsWickham1 (464)
• United States
9 May 07
I was 20. My hubby and I decided we want to start early. I am blessed it only took one try. I stopped taking birth control and four weeks later I was pregnant.
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@sanderson_7 (143)
• United States
9 May 07
I had my first at 19 and I just had my third, im 25. Im glad I had my kids young my hubby and I will get to enjoy life later on. Although sometimes its tough all of our friends have no children so they go out and do things and vacation often and we cant do that right now. But the way I look at it is we;ll be able to do it later.
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@nica269 (1395)
• United States
10 May 07
We were married for 8 years before having this lo, and we did all of that, but we needed to have a lo in our family, it was time. And we may not have the 'time' to go out on long vacations, or whatnot, but we did that while we were together and younger.
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@monika13sab (22)
• India
9 May 07
i was 21 years old when i give a birth to my sweat daughter and after 3 years in 2004 i gave birth to a handsome boy.
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@faith_hope_love (377)
• Philippines
9 May 07
I am 25 year-old when I had my first baby. When I was younger and even when I had no boyfriend yet, I really planned on having a baby at an earlier age in between 23-26. I dont know the reason why but I really wished of having a baby as soon as I can. Thank God, He granted me my wish on time.
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@lilbadger (45)
• Philippines
9 May 07
i'm 23 now and i'll give birth on october... i'll be 24 then.
@inday312saylon (747)
• Philippines
9 May 07
I was 24 when I had my first baby. I wasn't really too young, nor too old. I believe there is no really clear-cut age requirement as to when to have a baby, as long as you are emotionally mature to be able to handle the responsibilities. You should also be financially stable, because having a baby is really costly - from prenatal to postnatal. I also would like to add that when you get to have your own child, it completes your being a woman. It fulfills the essence of womanhood.
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@nica269 (1395)
• United States
10 May 07
I don't think there's a clear cut age to have children, but I was 'planning' to have children by age 25, just something that stuck in m mind.
And you're right, having your own child completes me as a woman. Even if we don't have any more children, my baby is all my dreams come true.
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