at what age will you stop having kids (or did you)?

I'm 28 and this 5th girl might be the last one. I always wanted to be done before turning 30, I started when I was 19. But now I'm considering leaving a small opening there for the next 5 or so years before I completely close the doors. Depends on the future I guess. I have no intention of having another baby long after my others. But I still never got my boy and some day IVF/PGD might actually be a possibility for us (it's not right now). I would hope my youngest would be in school before one of my girls has the first grandchild though, so maybe 35 is my highest limit.

Had my first at 35, second at 37 and REALLY REALLY hoping to have my third at 39 (currently 38.5) which will be my last. Will stop trying when funds are completely exhausted or when I turn 41, which ever comes first.

#4 is going to be it for us. We are quitting not due to our age but our kids ages, we don't want a huge gap.

I'm 27. This little girl/girls is it for us. I really didn't think we were going to have more than 3 but when I had DS3...we decided on one more! :) We will find out at the end of the month if this HT baby is 1 or 2. I would be happy with both! But for sure, after this pregnancy, I'M DONE!!!! Getting burned, tired, and whatever else to make sure we don't have anymore! lol Looking forward to the kids growing up and enjoying vacations without babies!

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Originally Posted by LolaInLove

Hopefully I'll be done this year! I'm 35. Had DD1 at 26 and DD2 at 29, so I'll have a small age gap, but nothing too crazy. Just the perfect age for my girls to be extra little mommies for me (whew!).

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Yeah, me to. I'm 38. I always tought I'll be done by 35, but I've started late and didn't get my DG, so.....Anyway, if nothing happens by the end of this year, I'll stop trying.

I just don't know for me. I said 32 then I moved it to 35 (34 atm). Now I just tell people I want 4 more babies. So unless I am lucky to get twins somewhere it could be 39-40 maybe, even longer perhaps??

I had my first @19 and now just turned 31 (last friday) I'm on my 8th pregnancy. 7th for me plus one surrogacy. I'd like 2/3 more babies plus I'd love to do a few more surrogacies so who know's when I'll stop!:wink:

I started at 24 which I thought was insanely young! LOL Looking back I'm glad that it happened the way it did. My husband is 11 years older than me and turns 40 this summer(I turned 29 a month ago) and he really only wanted 2 kids. After DS2 he agreed to try one more time for my DG. I have 2 year age gaps between each child, which I find very difficult some days but that's another post...LOL
Anyway, after DS3 he was adamant that we were done.....I'm not one to give up easily so I kept at it... ;) I've talked about wanting a fourth since the day DS3 was born! So, after 9 mos of constant talk about how 4 kids would be so great for us!.....he's said yes!! YAY!
So I'm hoping to be pregnant this summer and have my last child at the of 30. I think my hubby has agreed because he knows how much I would love to have 5-6 kids....but unless our financial situation changes or we move to a warmer Province and start living off the land a lot more, that's not going to happen :(
Anyway, I'm secretly hoping for twins....or an oops after #4...does that make me evil??? ;)

I always said I wanted to be done by the time I was 30, I was pregnant at the age of 17 so I think I have been having them for long enough, im 29 now, I have constantly had a baby for 11 years. I dont know if I will be able to stick to my original 30 though. I am doing IVF for a girl but have recently thought I might give it a year or two, my boys are more than enough for me to handle right now but on the other hand I want to be able to start to look forward to holidays without babies and having to take the entire contents of my home every time I leave the house? I want to start to look forward to when it will just be me and DH, it had never just been the 2 of us, we have always had kids. So I dont know, lol

I had DS1 a week before my 27th birthday and was 30 when I had DS2. The current plan is to start TTC (pink would be awesome!) in January, not long after I turn 33. So hopefully a baby would be in the cards for late 33 or early 34.

We did a lot of talking about having a third kid and I know we would stop there. While I suppose you can never say never, I feel pretty confident that we will have no more than three children unless a third pregnancy resulted in twins or we ever had an "oops" (I figure I'll go back on BC for at least a couple of years after a third baby and before we make any permanent birth control choices).