Current Events > Is 35 old to be having your first child?

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...because I feel old. >_>

I dunno, some of my friends my age have kids in middle school already, and most at least elementary age (still a few younger ones, though).
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No.

Sounds like a good age.
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Might just be that most of my friends started younger, for better or worse.
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No, but you're getting on up there.
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It seems a little old based on how most people seem to do it, but it seems a decent enough part of your life, arguably a little better. I wouldn't have problems with someone having kids until they were like 45-50 or so.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/us-dads-of-newborns-are-greying-percentage-over-40-doubled-since-the-70s/
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Not too old yet. But getting there.
I had my first at 22. I'm 35 now and have 3. My wife and I have discussed having another now (she's 32) but we decided that we're good with what we have.
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Does being 55 when your kid turns 20 sound too old? Sounds okay to me, though it's a bit older than me. Not like me in my late 40s/early 50s for my kids when they hit 20 would be that huge of a difference, though.
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yea 35 is getting up there, that's when there starts to become increased risks for birth defects
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my dad was 35 when I was born and he was usually older than most other parents but not in any kind of awkward way
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Weirdly more than my age it bums me out a little that my parents will be like well into their 80's when my daughter graduates high school. Like that's basically the age my surviving grandparents are right now while I'm middle aged. I have lots of fond memories of my grandparents when they were probably in their mid-50's and still really active and stuff, my parents are already way past that, lol.

Fortunately I have a young wife, so less chance of birth defects, but the male's age can cause problems as well apparently.
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mom had me when she was 41, dad was 34
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