Is this a new trend?

[Sherri]

At back to school night last week, I was surprised about how many Moms were pregnant. This was back to school night for highschool children.
It just seems like a popular thing around here. But that just seems like a large age difference in children. But it certainly wasn't random. It was enough people to make me take notice.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Maybe they are in newer relationships and opted to have a baby with their present spouse.

Maybe they are moms with larger families or larger spacing plans or suffered long periods of secondary infertility.

(just as a few possible ideas ).

 

[monkeyboy]

Maybe I have been busy

 

[L107ANGEL]

Maybe I have been busy

 

[disneyjunkie]

My son is 15 and an only child. I'd give anything to have two or three more.

I can't tell you how many people tell me I should be happy that this stage of parenthood is almost over. If it isn't that, I hear that is crazy for me to want more now that my son is so old.

Then there's the group that say since I'm 38 I can't/shouldn't have any more.

 

[EthansMom]

You wouldn't see that around here. Most of the Kindergarten Moms are in their 40s. At 33, I'm one of the youngest moms in the class... and I had my tubes tied last winter, so you won't find me pregnant when the kids are in high school.

 

[Beth76]

Another theory: they're the infamous "helicopter parents" realizing that in a few years they won't have anything to do, so they need a new hobby.

 

[fabshelly]

My son is 15 and an only child. I'd give anything to have two or three more.

I can't tell you how many people tell me I should be happy that this stage of parenthood is almost over. If it isn't that, I hear that is crazy for me to want more now that my son is so old.

Then there's the group that say since I'm 38 I can't/shouldn't have any more.

You're me.

Honest, you just posted exactly what's in my heart. Good luck and blessings to us both.

 

[Sherri]

You're me.

Honest, you just posted exactly what's in my heart. Good luck and blessings to us both.

Yep- I agree with both of you. I love my kids so much. I know I have to let them grow and have their own lives as they go through each stage. For me, letting to is the hardest thing ever. I love them with all of my heart, and the fac the ds just turned 15 and dd will be 14 on Monday, I am not quite sure where that leaves me. I feel lonely as the time we get to spend together is less and less. I will truely be lost when they are off to college.
I don't want more children, I want MY children to stay children just a bit longer.

 

[Cantw8]

Well, it certainly isn't a trend I intend to take part in I have two teenagers that I would gladly give up to a good home. They have low mileage but are high maintenance..not very good on gas

 

[Frantasmic]

I know what they did last summer...

 

[budbeerlady]

I know what they did last summer...

I have to say it might be the school that we are paying to send DD to but having met a lot of the Moms of the kids in her 1st grade class they did tend to be on the higher end of the 30's to 40's. I was the odd duck at 29!!!

(I was joking with Dh that maybe things would finally work out and we would have another one at 40. DD would be graduating high school and I could start all over and be 58ish when that one graduates. I might have to tell him that is a new trend!!!!)

 

[aprilgail2]

You wouldn't see that around here. Most of the Kindergarten Moms are in their 40s. At 33, I'm one of the youngest moms in the class... and I had my tubes tied last winter, so you won't find me pregnant when the kids are in high school.

Thats here too...I dont think there was a parent in my daughters kindergarten class that was still in their 20's. But there are parents in her class that already have kids in college and high school and then another one in kindergarten.

 

[Pugrpooh]

Maybe they are in newer relationships and opted to have a baby with their present spouse.

Maybe they are moms with larger families or larger spacing plans or suffered long periods of secondary infertility.

(just as a few possible ideas ).

I'll tell you what it was in my case. It was a complete and total shock! But I wouldn't have it any other way. I was 43 when DD was born, DH was 50 and our other two DD's were 13 and 15.

She'll start kindergarten next fall and that may be when I start dying my hair.

Lynn

 

[minnieandmickeymouse]

That's one trend I will not be following! When my 4 kids are in high school, I don't want to be starting over with a new baby . It can't happen anyway since DH is fixed! OR at least it SHOULDN"T happen!

 

[punkin]

Around here I am considered a very young mother. I am 39 and have a 9th grader. My DD was talking to her friend's mother about the trip DD tok to France with my FIL. The friend's mother asked how old Grandpa was. At 63 he was younger than that woman's husband.

There are mothers in DD7's school who are (much) older than me with their first grader being their oldest child.

 

[Ginamarie]

My parents liked having their kids all spaced out. I've helped to raise the three littlest ones. Listen to this age gap:

I'm (ahem) 28, DBro (26), DSis(16), DSis(8) and DBro(3)!

We all have the same two parents. Mom thought that two kids were enough until she got pregnant with the third. Then she was approaching age 40 and they decided that they really wanted to try to have another baby. My littlest brother was completely unexpected, and was born about 9 months after MY wedding. Dad had a great time telling people that there was a new addition coming to the family and making people think that I was the pregnant one.

Interestingly, my DH also has a spaced out family. He's 28, has a sister that's 26 and a little brother that's 7!

Now I have a little girl of my own, with lots of aunts and uncles. We're aiming to have 3, maybe 4 children, and I'd like to try to space them out by a few years, so it's possible that I'd be pregnant while my oldest child is in HS.

 

[ZachnElli]

My oldest and youngest are 10 years apart. The spacing was not my plan, but all 3 of my kids were very planned and years in the making. And I did start in my 20's, just didn't end there.

 

[Frantasmic]

My family is "spaced out." Oh yeah, we are stair-step in age though: 44, 43, 42.

 

[bjgrazi]

It just seems like a popular thing around here. But that just seems like a large age difference in children.

Oh so cool!!!! I'm popular and trendy. I have a soon to be 18 y/o daughter, my son will be 15 in less than 2 weeks and my baby just turned 5 months on Wednesday. I'll be 44 in December.