What age was your mother when she gave birth to you?

Vito Corleone

Mine was 37 which I feel is kind of old, my Dad was a year older.

Poll added.

Also, could the mods please ban anyone who says "about three fiddy" because it's not funny anymore, and truth be told, never really was.

stefan idiot jones

20

Femme_Fatale

37 isn't that old now to have a baby (yes I know it is biologically, but socially/culturally not so much). 35-40 years ago though, a "geriatric mother" was aged 30!

My mother was 31, but I was the youngest.

wazky

86.

I had to brace myself against the sides for the last few months of the pregnancy though.

Vito Corleone

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

About three fiddy.

:mad:

fussyonion

Why do you want to know?

RayM

28. I find it hard to comprehend the fact that I'm now older than both my parents were when I was born. I think people must have just looked older back in the 1980s.

NuckingFacker

My Mum was 19 and my old lad was 41. I now regard him as a legend. I didn't there for a while. I'm now in my fourties myself - you old dog, in fairness..

BNMC

21.

Heard a good one the other day, Robbie Williams was asked what was it like to witness the birth of his first child. "it was like watching my favorite pub burning down".

hungry hippo 4

she was 14, still me best. comes to clubs n alls with me for the lols

Legs.Eleven

37 or 38. My dad was 40. I'm the youngest of 5. They used to call me "The Pleasant Surprise" as a child (didn't know what they meant). Big massive boo boo, more like it.

Just under 20, nothing unusual in the early 60s

hungry hippo 4

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Which clubs? :cool:

the flying stools our local. but were barred

Stained Class

37 & I'm now 8 years older than she was then.

Time flies.

Hello_MrFox

26.

Senna

38, old enough, especially in the 70's

Stained Class

Senna wrote: »

38, old enough, especially in the 70's

Not really, if your'e the last child in a big family & big families were the thing back then.

wolfpawnat

24. Married with 2 years by then. Scary to think. This being said by a mother of 2 at 22 and 26 years old. My partners mom had his sister at 19 and him at 41, no kids between. His dad was 17 years older than her.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Just under 20, nothing unusual in the early 60s

Likewise for me and my mother. I was born in the early 1960s, and she had just turned 19. My da was 23. Most of the mothers on our street ssemed to be in the same general age range. I think having kids young was the norm in towns and cities in those days, though I'd say it was different in rural Ireland. I was reading somewhere that these days about 2% of births are to mothers under 20.

dark crystal

She was 19 having me and I was 19 having my first, who just happened to turn 19 herself yesterday.

I'm really hoping history doesn't repeat itself again. :pac:

Super-Rush

13.

Slut.

Femme_Fatale

My mother was 24 when she got married in 1971; she was 25 exactly nine months later :pac: when she had her first child - said she was deemed a late starter and people thought she'd be left on the shelf!

She looks back in disbelief at that. Says she wouldn't allow a 25-year-old today loose with a baby. :pac:

Femme_Fatale

dark crystal wrote: »

She was 19 having me and I was 19 having my first, who just happened to turn 19 herself yesterday.

I'm really hoping history doesn't repeat itself again. :pac:

Heard a girl in the pub the other night saying her 36-year-old friend will be a grandmother soon. I'll be 36 next year - I'm too young to be a grandmother, even biologically dammit! :eek::(

dark crystal

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Heard a girl in the pub the other night saying her 36-year-old friend will be a grandmother soon. I'll be 36 next year - I'm too young to be a grandmother, even biologically dammit! :eek::(

Ah stop will you, I'll be having nightmares tonight

alroley

36 and I was the first. She was 38 and 41 when she had my sister and brother.
It was the early/mid 90's.

Femme_Fatale

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Heard a girl in the pub the other night saying her 36-year-old friend will be a grandmother soon. I'll be 36 next year - I'm too young to be a grandmother, even biologically dammit! :eek::(

I can think af some sink estates in the UK where it's nothing unusual to be a grandmother at 30! :eek:

somefeen

She was the same age as I am now :O

Galwayguy35

43

April O Neill II

33, I'm the youngest. She had her first at 28.

campo

16

campo

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Heard a girl in the pub the other night saying her 36-year-old friend will be a grandmother soon. I'll be 36 next year - I'm too young to be a grandmother, even biologically dammit! :eek::(

My mom was a grannie at 37 did her no harm , she was still young a vibrant enough to play with the grandchild

HalloweenJack

27 and I'm the youngest.

I'm 25 now and I find it hard to believe that my ma had three kids by the time she was my age, I still feel like I've so much to learn about life.

WilyCoyote

39. That was in the late 40s. I worked with a guy years ago who was a grandfather at 33. And by the way his eldest grandson was behaving ........ he'd be a greatgrandfather by 50. Lost touch as he legged it to NZ (with his new moth) about 15 years ago.

April O Neill II

Senna wrote: »

38, old enough, especially in the 70's

I dunno, I'd say with the bigger families back then a lot of women would have had their last in their late 30s.

April O Neill II

wolfpawnat wrote: »

My partners mom had his sister at 19 and him at 41, no kids between. His dad was 17 years older than her.

I need just a moment to wrap my head around this.

SusieBlue

They were both 22 when I was born. They had their last child at 40, though.

robman60

Mine was 38. I'm the youngest of three, so it's not particularly old. Mid 1990s.

JohnMearsheimer

Mine was 24. I'm 29 now. My mother was married for 8 years by the time she was my age. I can't even imagine being married now at 29.

Scorpion Sting

Same as OP, 37.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

My mother was 26.

She was pretty when she had me, and then by the time I turned one, she had aged about 10 years no joke

December2012

I'm feeling old reading the posts of people born in the 90's!

TheMilkyPirate

My mother was 43 having me im the youngest and pretty sure I was a big "surprise"

Rho b

MY mam was in her early 40's when I was born. I am the youngest of four. Unfortunately she lost/miscarried a pregnancy when I was four or five. I remember the somber mood in the house at the time
I still remember her telling me, as clear as day, that the cat ran away with the teat from my night time bottle - "the cat had kittens to feed so she needed the teat from my bottle to feed them". I fell for it.
Anyway if there are some older posters reading this thread then can any of you remember Farilys Rusks. I think that is was it was called. I was in a green packet with babies face on it.

Novella

My mam was 26 when I was born. I am 24 now and cannot imagine having a child in two years!

Galwayguy35

Rho b wrote: »

MY mam was in her early 40's when I was born. I am the youngest of four. Unfortunately she lost/miscarried a pregnancy when I was four or five. I remember the somber mood in the house at the time
I still remember her telling me, as clear as day, that the cat ran away with the teat from my night time bottle - "the cat had kittens to feed so she needed the teat from my bottle to feed them". I fell for it.
Anyway if there are some older posters reading this thread then can any of you remember Farilys Rusks. I think that is was it was called. I was in a green packet with babies face on it.

Yep, remember them well.

Sunnyisland

26, my mother then had three more so was 33 when finished .

loveBBhate

25. A little coincidence followed too as when I was 25 and my Mother 50, my Mother gave birth to my child. So in a way, me and my Dad experienced the exact same thing at the same age and my Mother became a Mother and Grandmother simultaneously, it's weird how things like that can happen even when they're unplanned.

Ericaa

My mom was 18, my dad turned 17 less than a month before I was born.

My dad became a granddad at the age of 38.

It sounds so strange haha

princess-lala

Mine was 25, father was 27. Married 4 years with two under two at that stage! She had her last at 27 and the youngest made her a granny at 44.

alie

My mam was 47, I'm an only child. I wish she had been younger as she died when I was 24.

anncoates

25. I'm the oldest. She had her last child at 35.

My Da was 30 when she had me.

My wife and I were both 37 when we had our first.