Having your first child at age 36 too late?

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You know, our 60 is not anywhere near our parents' 60. we age differently, we are staying younger longer. I think of my attitudes and my drives in life, and compare those with my mom's and dad's when they were my age. there's a vast difference.

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I don't think that the argument about being a 'certain age' to have kids holds anymore.

I don't know about that. My father was past his statutory pension age when I got out of the maternity ward. My grandfather was raised up at the time when Finland was ruled by Alexander II. I am roughly the same age as you are.

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You know, our 60 is not anywhere near our parents' 60. we age differently, we are staying younger longer. I think of my attitudes and my drives in life, and compare those with my mom's and dad's when they were my age. there's a vast difference.

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I don't think that the argument about being a 'certain age' to have kids holds anymore.

I don't know about that. My father was past his statutory pension age when I got out of the maternity ward. My grandfather was raised up at the time when Finland was ruled by Alexander II. I am roughly the same age as you are.

I definitely do agree with Enkeligod, and my grandmother was born in the last years of1800's (although my parents had me when they were just around their 40's). I remember growing up how there were lots and lots of old people around... and not only until they started dying about 20-30 years later did I realize that they really weren't that old then, they were just about 10 years older than my mom. But boy, did those 10 years show. And no way does a 50-60 year old today look the same as a 50-60 year old did at that time. People even dressed old, from quite a young age. Granted, I lived out in the country, so that might have been a difference... but still. Also, turning 80 was a very big deal when I was a kid, now the same milestone would be turning 95 or 100. I compare my 80+ year old mother to what my grandmother was at 80+... and even though my mother suffers of big health issues and my grandmother was healthy as a horse until the day she died, my mother is waaaaaay more active and way more younger at heart (my grandmother sat more or less waiting to die... for 15 years).

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And to the OP:s question... no, it's not too late. Sure, for some it might be, in the same way as for some it might be waaaaay too early to have kids whem they are in their 20's... and some should never have kids.

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I remember growing up how there were lots and lots of old people around...

That has probably been the same always. 50 year olds look utterly different when you're 4 and when you're 40.