Whats Great About it?

[CMCandAmelia]

Whats the best thing, you think about being a young mum?

Im due 3rd of Feb, and im so happy to be having my first child soon

I love the fact that i will be able to chase my children around, enjoy everything they do.

My nan had children young and my mum had us young.. mum and dad are still in their 40's and my brother and i have both brought our own homes, theyre off every weekend, travelling to amazing places in their caravan...
i wanna be like that :yes:

[AllieandPeanut]

Everything :D

We have the option to put off having more kids for a while, we have time on our hands!

I love my little man, and I love being able to chase after him. In fact we love it so much we are planning another little one sometime next year.

I am so glad I started young, I had a lovely easy pregnancy and bounced back quickly after his birth. That might not have been the case if I had waited. Kids are great no matter how old you are, but being a young mum works for me.

Congratulations on the pregnancy :yelclap: how is everything going?

[Liddy]

I love it because i'll pretty much be done by the time i'm 25!

People always say having children young means you can't enjoy life. I think that's so untrue, my DF and I sit back and think wow, i'm 21 years old, we're having our 3rd child, we want 4 and we'll be done in a few years and then we have our whole lives to enjoy with our children!!

I think that being young has helped me look after my children and have healthy pregnancies and heal well from births.

The only downside is that children has extended the time before we can own our own home but I don't really mind that at all, having our kids is so worth it. And renting doesn't bother me.

I've been told i'm fertile and I like to think that because I have kids young means we haven't had any conception issues.. so far.

I just love it :) I couldn't think of a better place to be at my age really..

[CMCandAmelia]

Love the responses all so true! and thankyou Allieandpeanut its going really well, 12 weeks today :smiliedance:
Which is a wonderful feeling :D

[Lemonhead]

I love it because I am young enough to be super in touch with my kids and understand things they are going through because I only went through them not long ago too!

Also, by the time I am 40 our youngest (hopefully, if TTC doesnt take too long after this bub) will be 16-ish and we will be FREE!!! :D We plan on travelling and enjoying our 40s with teenagers in the house not babies!

I think as a young parent you can adapt to the challenges a baby can bring easier than if you had been living life your way for 30 years kwim?

[AllieandPeanut]

Awesome :) I have the worst belly envy at the minute, I can't wait to be pregnant again lol today at the shopping centre my partner kept telling me off for perving on all the pregnant women.... I just can't help myself, I'm obsessed... Oh well, soon enough it will be me again ;)

[CMCandAmelia]

Aw i know the feeling Allie when we were trying (which luckily wasnt long) EVERY seemed to be pregnant, well the only people i noticed were pregnant. lol funny

[AllieandPeanut]

Haha its true. There must be some kind of pregnancy tunnel vision. Babies do weird things to us :yes:

I'm sure it wont take us long this time either, being so young and fertile and all lol

[danni3]

oh dear girls I feel a little old now :p

We had our first at 18 and second at 19 now TTC #3 at 23

Hubby and I love that we have the get up and go to play with the kids, that by the time we are 40 our kids will be all grown up, that if we in fact decide we want more kids in 10 years time we could do it, that we settled down and bought our house early, we have more security than all the blokes hubby works with and they are late thirties... I could go on and on :D

(I am having major bump envy at the moment too lol, cant wait to have that again!!)

[Boobycino]

I love that when Jasper is 18 I'll be 39 :D

I love that on no sleep and mountains of stress I still look good :D

Also I have time to work out what I want to do 'when I grow up' :p so when Jasper and baby-yet-to-be-conceived start preschool I'll be like 27 - I could go to uni or start a totally new career.

I think mostly I marvel at how much time I have! My life has just begun and I get to spend my whole life as a mum :goodvibes: who wants to wait for that!

[Boobycino]

Also if we are do inclined we could have more children later on. Though dp is an old fart (31) so he's less keen on the idea of waiting several years and having more kids, but well see.

[sjay]

I like the thought that when all of my friends are having young children issues, I'll have teenagers and maybe even grandchildren

[TripleTime]

Ill be 40 when my kids will be A) living on their own or B) old enough to be left to ''house sit'' & ill still have time to ''grow up''

[peanutbutter&jelly]

I can only think of one thing that isn't, and that's judgement sometimes...
Oh, and my Mum, being 49 with a 2 year old grandson, is still working full time and obviously isn't able to take him through the week is I wanted to work :devil6: :laughing:

I LOVE being a young Mum, I was 18 when I fell pregnant, 19 when I had DS, 20 when I fell pregnant with his sister (found out 2 days before Phoenix's 1st birthday), 21 when I had Bella (7 months ago) and now am really looking forward to when they're older and I can study and work. And buying a house.
Occasionally, I absolutely wish we had have waited a good year or 2, saved and bought a house, but that's alright. I probably would have been looking for something totally different to what we need now anyway ;)
I love being able to much around with my little boy and really enjoy it, that could be who I am more than age though (conga line along the bike track anyone? He couldn't move he was giggling so much :goodvibes:) and I love being able to stay light hearted about so much. I don't stress THAT much about bed time, because my DF is a night owl too, as was I pre-kids (even when I was DS's age and beyond!), its possibly a genetic thing ;) Bella's currently destroying papers I don't need anymore, near my feet and she's happy <3

I love being a young mum, I really do. Its not always easy - parenting full stop - but so worth it :bee:

[Boobycino]

One thing that would be great if I lived nearby them is Jasper has a 50 year old grandma and a 67 year old great grandma (hmm do the maths ;) ) both have baby sat for me before, but they live interstate, but it's nice that MY grandma is able to be like Jasper grandma as well!

[MissSteph]

I can only think of one thing that isn't, and that's judgement sometimes...

I'm the opposite.. I LOVE when people see me in public with my 2 children (20 months and 6 weeks) and the looks they give me.. I actually giggle at it sometimes because I know I'm doing a great job raising them! :yes:

I love being a mum.. I love knowing that I'll be 40 when my youngest is 20 hehe

[AllieandPeanut]

The judgement got to me in the beginning, but now I'm fine with it. It did take me a while at first, I never pictured myself with kids at all, least of all at 20 years old. I got a bit anxious after Archer was born, and got really self-conscious but then I stopped paying attention to other people and started enjoying my beautiful baby boy and I haven't looked back.

Its a bit funny that fifty years ago we were the norm, but now there is a fair bit of stigma attached to it. Social trends are funny that way...I wonder what the standard will be in another fifty years?

Another great thing is that my two little sisters (6 and 3) get to be Aunties. They love it, and I'm sure Archer will love getting to hang out with his Aunties cute older friends once we hit those teenage years lol

[Teley]

The fact that my parents are still young. The fact that I will hopefully be a young grandma. The fact that I don't have to have two children and say, I wish I could have more but *sigh*......or that, in my care, I didn't have to go through a break-up and realise that this is my last child because there's just no time left for me. The fact that I didn't find it hard to adjust because I wasn't used to an independent life etc. yet. That was the positive points. And also - my own youth isn't that far behind, I remember it quite well.