Plenty of women can’t wait to become grandmothers. Not this mum.
When her daughter said she and her partner wanted to start trying for a baby, this British woman wasn’t happy. She felt her daughter was too young. Her age? “Just 23.”
The woman, calling herself Fab40nhy, turned to online mothers’ forum Mumsnet for advice.
“I know that plenty of people have children far earlier,” she wrote, “but I feel that this is often not by choice. My daughter is knowingly plunging into a huge commitment without fully understanding the tremendous impact this baby will have on her life (loss of independence, financial implications, strain on relationship etc).”
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Having babies is the most amazing thing in the world. Her mum needs to back off and see a baby as the blessing that it is!! I'm sure her daughter will never regret her decision! If I had met my partner earlier I would love to have started our family at a much younger age. We had to do ivf and have a gorgeous two and one year old. Now approaching 37 and will try for a third. At any age... I would have been heartbroken to find out any of our parents were not supportive of our decision to start a family.
On the flip side, if she gets pregnant straight away, her child will be finishing HS and off to uni or work or travel just as she is entering her "naughty forties" and she'll be off the hook with parenting duties!