Older Mum new to Australia

[Abbeyhey]

Hi my name is Mandy
I have recently moved to Perth from the UK and love it, I am married for the second time around. I have two older children from my first marriage 12 and 9 and a 9 month old little boy from this marriage. I am 43 years of age and do not know many people in Perth. I would love to meet other mums in my situation.

[Lankysmum]

Hi I'm new to this site too.
I am 42 years old and have 4 children.
Their ages are 22, 19, 4 and 2.

[Abbeyhey]

:) Hi Lankysmum

How are you coping with a young family second time around? I'm sure that you get alot of help from the older ones when they are around. Mine try to help the best they can and the little one loves them so much. Have you always lived in Australia? and have you met many older mum's? I've met one or two but they all live so far away.
Abbeyhey

[Lankysmum]

Yes Abbeyhey I have met other older mums mostly on the internet but I have also met some of these irl which was great. When the boys were little the big ones did help a lot but they are sooo much older that they have their own lives now and spend less time home and with their little siblings. My daughter, 19 thinks it is funny tho because her boyfriends family has a lot of added on kids in it too. She also doesn't like it when people assume they are hers! #3 starts school on Thursday and all the other mums I have seen so far are sooo young, I suppose there will be others older we'll have to see.

Children nipping at heels, better go!

[Missie]

I am in Rockingham (45minutes from perth) and extremely bored at home, even though I have kids to run after I get bored very easliy, and would love to chat to other parents from anywhere really! feel free to email me, thankyou! missiek_mumma@yahoo.com.au

[FiveLittleDucks]

I am 41 and my children are nearly 17, 14, 11, 8 and 3. They all are from the same marriage though. We recently moved and now live in a remote area. I find it hard and I didn't even move to another country.

[Graeme]

Hi,

Obviously I'm not a mum but after nearly 15 years marriage, my partner and I had our first child when we were both 39. It suited us starting late, much more ready than we would have been.

We are really lucky in that we have heaps of family and friends around who are very supportive. (Probably they were mostly very happy that we finally managed to get it happening!)

I so admire people who manage successfuly without much support. Even though you have move from OS, hope you still have good support networks out here.

Graeme

[Lankysmum]

I would like to add to my introduction that the children are all from the same father also. #3 was a bit of a surprise but we were not using any form of contraception with the view if it happened it happened. We have recently bought a caravan because #2 wants to move home and there aren't any bedrooms left! I might add we have a block and plans for a larger home which will hopefully be complete this time next year.