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re: The Number of People Over 40 Giving Birth Surpasses Teens for the First Time
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:17 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:17 pm to TDsngumbo
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I'm almost 40. I can't imagine having a newborn right now. I'm too damn tired to clean the fricking kitchen after dinner and get the kids to bed already. No way could I handle household duties, work, raising two growing kids, AND a newborn right now.
Shoot, I'm quickly coming up on 50 and have three foster kids, 2,4 & 7. This was not on my bingo card when I was younger. At least with the exhaustion, we sleep somewhat well.
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Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:18 pm to jizzle6609
I had twins at around 40
It's just not THAT bad and it's way easier when you have money to throw at problems
You've got more perspective, you probably panic less, you might have more flexibility/autonomy/authority in your career, and most people have more money.
I don't think it's the ideal, but I agree, in some ways it's probably easier than trying to figure it out when you're 25 and terrified of your boss and still pretty stupid and poor.
It's just not THAT bad and it's way easier when you have money to throw at problems
You've got more perspective, you probably panic less, you might have more flexibility/autonomy/authority in your career, and most people have more money.
I don't think it's the ideal, but I agree, in some ways it's probably easier than trying to figure it out when you're 25 and terrified of your boss and still pretty stupid and poor.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:18 pm to 4cubbies
By Education Level, Age at first birth
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:19 pm to 4cubbies
Damn...
And I thought Mrs. udtiger and I were oldsters when we had ours at 33 and 34.
And I thought Mrs. udtiger and I were oldsters when we had ours at 33 and 34.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:20 pm to 4cubbies
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bold of you to assume my offspring identifies as a "bambino"
Great comeback?
Bambino. Bambina. Whatever the gender, don't program them with your woke BS.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:21 pm to Pettifogger
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I had twins at around 40
when I realized I was pregnant last time, my first thought was "please let it only be one."
Props to you.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:22 pm to KCT
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Great comeback?
it was a joke.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:24 pm to 4cubbies
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Great comeback?
it was a joke.
Okay. My bad.
No offense, but you aren't exactly Robin Williams.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:27 pm to Pettifogger
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I had twins at around 40
Damn, I’m 42 with one in college and another about to finish up his jr year of HS. About to sell all my shite and buy a boat to live on for a few years before I have to come back and help take care of grandkids and elderly parents.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:28 pm to Pettifogger
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I had twins at around 40
It's just not THAT bad and it's way easier when you have money to throw at problems
You've got more perspective, you probably panic less, you might have more flexibility/autonomy/authority in your career, and most people have more money.
I don't think it's the ideal, but I agree, in some ways it's probably easier than trying to figure it out when you're 25 and terrified of your boss and still pretty stupid and poor.
I didnt mean it in a negative way, was more trying to make the other guy feel better about himself haha.
I think anyone can do anything they really put their mind to.
I agree with your comments though. Maturity.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:31 pm to 4cubbies
well for clarification my wife had twins, if that wasn't obvious
When we went in for the first ultrasound we had a tech from a Muslim country and spoke very halting English, and she initially said "congratulations, a baby for you..." and then turned to me and said "and baby for you."
I thought it might be a poor translation of an Islamic tiding or something at first
When we went in for the first ultrasound we had a tech from a Muslim country and spoke very halting English, and she initially said "congratulations, a baby for you..." and then turned to me and said "and baby for you."
I thought it might be a poor translation of an Islamic tiding or something at first
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:36 pm to 4cubbies
This is all economics and feminism.
Women now pursue college and a career rather than starting a family in their 20’s and 30’s. She waits until she and her husband feel financially stable enough to have a kid and still live like ghetto rich spoiled assholes (or if she’s single, sees her relationship window closing as her child bearing years die off- IVF) then has a single baby late in life.
This is almost as bad as teen pregnancy. Less babies from the producer class, more spoiled arse kids, less nuclear families than ever.
Women now pursue college and a career rather than starting a family in their 20’s and 30’s. She waits until she and her husband feel financially stable enough to have a kid and still live like ghetto rich spoiled assholes (or if she’s single, sees her relationship window closing as her child bearing years die off- IVF) then has a single baby late in life.
This is almost as bad as teen pregnancy. Less babies from the producer class, more spoiled arse kids, less nuclear families than ever.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:39 pm to 4cubbies
I’m 34 and the wife 32. We have a 3 and one year old. I hope we’re done!
Children are so expensive.
I’m already tired at 34, couldn’t imagine a newborn at 40.
I feel early 30’s was a good time for us to have our children as we were more secure in our careers and financially better off than in our 20’s.
Children are so expensive.
I’m already tired at 34, couldn’t imagine a newborn at 40.
I feel early 30’s was a good time for us to have our children as we were more secure in our careers and financially better off than in our 20’s.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:39 pm to 4cubbies
Hopefully less of the purple hair liberal whack jobs are procreating. I'd be for a bill to chemically castrate all liberal women. The world would be a happier place.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:41 pm to 4cubbies
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What do you think the government exists for
Damn sure not to subsidize day care because you've decided to procreate the world and can't afford it.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 2:43 pm to 4cubbies
quote:It was never "taboo," but it's not a great idea either. After 40, there's no room for error, and plenty of error in the room. Both medical complications and anomalies are significantly higher.
More and more couples consider waiting to have kids in order to travel, work, or just to keep their lives calm before the chaos starts—and this idea is no longer taboo.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 3:04 pm to 4cubbies
as someone who went through years of infertility in my 30's and read so many medical publications and books I should get an honorary medical degree... let me tell you that the odds of getting pregnant without medical intervention at the age of 40 are something like 5% and drops exponentially every year thereafter.
Hollywood loves to promote the Gwen Stefani, Selma Hyek, Kardashian pregnancy stories and fail to tell women that they had eggs frozen or an egg donor. It gives women the impression that its okay to delay having kids. Anyone who gets pregnant at 35 or older is considered a "Geriatric Pregnancy". Women's bodies are really meant to reproduce in their 20s.
I've told all of my kids that if they know they want a family, have a spouse and enough money to feed them, don't wait.
Plus, I think kids lives are enriched by knowing their grandparents..Much harder to if there are 40 year generations in a family.
Hollywood loves to promote the Gwen Stefani, Selma Hyek, Kardashian pregnancy stories and fail to tell women that they had eggs frozen or an egg donor. It gives women the impression that its okay to delay having kids. Anyone who gets pregnant at 35 or older is considered a "Geriatric Pregnancy". Women's bodies are really meant to reproduce in their 20s.
I've told all of my kids that if they know they want a family, have a spouse and enough money to feed them, don't wait.
Plus, I think kids lives are enriched by knowing their grandparents..Much harder to if there are 40 year generations in a family.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 3:12 pm to 4cubbies
From a purely anecdotal vantage it seems like these fertility treatments have given rise to a surge in twins. Ten years ago none of my friends or family had twins and now they're all over the place. Some might be adopted as I was not aware the girl was pregnant until she suddenly started posting newborn pics online.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 3:12 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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Plus, I think kids lives are enriched by knowing their grandparents..Much harder to if there are 40 year generations in a family.
This is what bums me out about having our last baby at 39. He wasn't planned, but having him has made me prioritize my health because I need to be around to help him with his kids someday. I'd love to have one more (now, after we thought we were done after 2) but I know the clock is ticking.
Posted on 4/28/25 at 3:13 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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It gives women the impression that its okay to delay having kids. Anyone who gets pregnant at 35 or older is considered a "Geriatric Pregnancy". Women's bodies are really meant to reproduce in their 20s.
I've told all of my kids that if they know they want a family, have a spouse and enough money to feed them, don't wait.
Plus, I think kids lives are enriched by knowing their grandparents..Much harder to if there are 40 year generations in a family.
Very true. But there are plenty couples like my son and daughter in law who were trying for 8 years with no real reasons for infertility. They were both 27 when they first were "trying." They finally unexplainably got pregnant at 36 years old. Because by that point, my daughter in law ended up with other risk factors (both gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension), even if they could get pregnant again, they won't take the risk and I agree with their decision.
I was 25 when my first was born. They are much better parents in their late 30's than I was in my mid 20s. They are much more laid back, having seen their friends raise children and been around many more babies. They seem to handle the stress better. My hubs and I were terrified, stressed, mostly broke, and just not always great then.
I don't think advising folks to have babies at 20 (apparently like some posters did) is necessarily wise. Early 20s just doesn't make great parents.
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