O-T Dads: Who here was over 40 when you had your first child?

My dad was 41 and 45 when my brother and I were born. I had 3 kids of my own at 32, 34, and 36.

He looked a lot younger at 40 than I did

FWIW a lot of the parents at my kids school had their first in their 40s. It’s a pretty affluent school and all the kids seem pretty well adjusted. I think you can bring a lot of wisdom to fatherhood later in life.

I missed by like 45 days.

If you have back pain issues, go ahead and take out a life policy that can put the kids through college once it becomes too much.

39. All good.

38, would have been fine a few years before, but I wouldn't have been ready in my 20s.

I will likely be right at or just under 40 when I have my first. I’ve wondered if I would’ve preferred having kids younger, but I’m glad we didn’t. There are times when I think the scraping by and doing it on ramen but doing it as kids lifestyle sounds fun and romantic, but I’m fine how we’ll be doing it.

I’m very secure financially, the wife is still really young so should be fine financially, and we’ll be able to hire any and all help we need so we (hopefully) don’t look like a pair of poor, distressed zombies like so many of my friends looked like who had theirs young did lol.

I know a guy in his mid sixties whose dad was a WWI veteran. You do the math.

I was 42 and had identical twin girls. My first 2 and only...

in - first/only when I was 50 and my wife was 36

everything's a trade-off: I don't have the energy I did in my 20s and 30s but I'm a LOT more patient now than I was then

Had my last child at 42.

The experiences of my child far outweigh anything else.