Is it normal my mother gave birth to me when she was 39?

She’s almost 60 now, and I’m not even 20 years old yet! I don’t mean any offense to my mother, but I always here of people’s parents being younger, and people her age being grandparents.

For example, I had a friend who was two years older than me, and her grandmother was only a year older than my mother! And I remember watching some tv show, I think it was like a revamp of the twilight zone or something, where one guy was concerned about not having kids, and I distinctly remember him saying “by the time my kid is 10 I’ll be 50!” I was ten at the time, and my mom would turn 50 later that year! (My birthday is early in the year, here is late).

Is this normal? Or is it more common than I thought?

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  • RoseIsabella

    Janet Jackson just had a baby at fifty recently.

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  • charli.m

    My aunt had her first baby the day after her 40th birthday.

    Being an older parent has its pros and cons. Same as anything.

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  • chuy

    Well A church I used to go to, the pastor was 49 I believe and he had a 3yo and a 18 month old. So older parents are becoming hip I guess

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  • Normal. My mother was almost 50 when she had me.

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  • JustAHuman

    My cousin's wife had a baby on her 40th birthday.

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  • RandomNumbers

    woman should have childen between 18-35.

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    • Aroura77

      According to....you?
      Everyone ages differently, surely it's a matter of how fertile and capable of taking care of their children they are.

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      • RandomNumbers

        According to common biology. Also, a woman who have a child late in life will live less with it

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  • SwickDinging

    It's more unusual but it's still pretty normal. Medicine has come a long way now so people are able to have children later. I wouldn't worry too much - the other benefit of our medical advances are that people tend to live a lot longer, so it kind of balances out that people will have kids a bit later.

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  • Ellenna

    More women are having babies later in life now than in the past, but certainly it wasn't rare 20 years ago.

    My parents married at 42 (father) and 29 (mother) way back in the 1930's and I wasn't born until about 10 years later and there was another child after me. It did mean my parents were more the age of my friends' grandparents and very oldfashioned because of that, but it wasn't extremely rare back then for women to have "change of life" babies in their late 40's, much to their own surprise.

    Nothing you can do about it anyway, so why worry about it?

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    • Hubbard

      I wasn’t really worried I was just wondering if this was more common than I thought.

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  • Aroura77

    My mum had me when she was 27, and she's a lot younger than most of my friend's parents, who are now in their 50s and 60s and my mum's just about to turn 50.

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  • reallylatelatebloomer

    Absolutely normal! Someone from my family gave birth all naturally when she was 48, and that was the 60s if I remember correctly. Like already said on here, being a parent later comes with its pros and cons. However, there is absolutely nothing you should be ashamed of especially now that it is becoming more common. Maybe in small towns or villages there is still this pressure to settle down in your twenties, so being a first time older parent is a bit less common? Either way, enjoy the time you spend with your mom.

    So, yes, it is normal. Plus, she wasn't that old when she had you.

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  • JustinAnderson

    You think too much ...

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  • BlindSpot

    Biologically it's absolutely normal...it's within a woman's productive age range. Don't give a fuck about societal norm...that stuff is bullshit

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  • eeeekkk

    I’ve known plenty of people like this. Some an only child and others with other older siblings. Everyone has a different time of which they think is best to have kids some people may just take a bit longer to prepare and feel mature and responsible enough.

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  • LloydAsher

    People should aim for having kids at 25 20 is best health wise. Late thirty is when you are getting in trouble with infertility issues.

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