First baby...how old were you?

28 #1
30 #2
33 #3

#1: two months before I turned 26
#2: three weeks before I turned 29

I was 22 when I had my first child ! He will be 30 in march!!!!

From: Shenandoah, VA
Age: 36
First child: 19
Second Child: 24
Spayed: 36 lol

I was 41 years old, my wife 35. They make you do all kinds of extra tests during pregnancy when you are 35+ but we got though it. I say we like the tests were any kind of a burden on ME...

From: Illinois
Age now: 26
Age when first child was born: 21
Age when second child was born: 25

I had just turned 21 when I had my first son (not planned pregnancy), had my second son at 27 (planned) with one miscarriage at 26.

Now 29, but I'm surprised at all the people I meet my age that don't have any kids yet. I mean, I know the stars aren't always aligned just right but in the back of my mind I'm thinking tik-tok, after 35 its risky and there's no guarantee that you'll get pregnant right away.

I live in San Antonio, TX but I'm a military brat and have lived all over the world.

Age now: 42
Age when I first got pregnant: 28
Age when I gave birth: 29
Age when I gave birth to 3rd (and last) child: 35

But here in Kentucky (where I've relocated), the median age to have your first baby seems to be 12.

From: York, England
Age now: 35
Age when I had my 1st baby: 31. 2nd baby: 33

The average age is around 30 in the UK, but there are certain areas where you get a lot of teenage mums. The year I had my daughter there were 2 15 year old girls pregnant at the school I teach in. When I had my son, my 1st, there was a 16 year old having a baby.

I went to university and worked for a few years before having children, and a lot of women are doing that now. On the other hand, if you live in a deprived area and have no ambition, you end up with a lot of teenage pregnancies. In the UK you get pretty good benefits if you're on a low income and bringing up a child.

I think that is a bit of a negative view of what is quite a complex issue. yes there are higher rates of teenage pregnancy in deprived areas and for some it is not about not having ambition as such, as wanting to become a mum is an ambition in its own right. It is more about not having the doors open to further and higher educations due to lack of parent support, poorer schooling in many (though not all) schools in deprived areas, lack of income which impacts not only on education but in realising that there is a world outside that estate that they live on and so much more. Having a baby becomes the one thing that they may be able to achieve in life and their hopes for something better go into that child though often they repeat the cycle their parents started with them.

there are always exceptions of course, those youngsters that do well despite poor beginning and those that have children young but come from educated backgrounds. Personally I had my first son at 19 and he was an accident but I already had 4 A level passes and had always intended to go to uni, which I did when I was 25 and I now work in Adult Education (PGCE qualified) with adults hoping to gain English and Maths qualifications second time around

38 now, live in Florida.

First was at 27
Last was 3 days after my 38th birthday.
There are two in between.