I’ve been trying to get pregnant since 34 but due to miscarriages and a fibroid that required surgical removal, things have been complicated. I’m 38 now, and my first healthy pregnancy (I’m 8 weeks) is due just before my 39th birthday. This is my first child. I am really hoping to have another child after this, which will likely be in my early 40’s. I am really getting tired of unsolicited ongoing comments about what my age is going to mean as a parent and if I should still realistically plan on having 2 kids, how old I’m going to be when my child is this age or that age, etc. When I was 34 the doctor already put me in the “older” category because I would have been 35 at delivery. I realize they’re just doing their job but sometimes it seems ridiculous. I had one doctor get me really scared a few years ago telling me I had a “low egg count” (which I’ve read now might not even mean anything) and making me feel guilty about “waiting until I’m older” (when I was 35). Even my own husband makes occasional comments about how old we will be when the child is 10 or 15 etc.. I just want the world to shut up about this. I am more active and healthier than most of the women I know who are in their 20’s, and have far more to give a baby as far as a stable home, income, and family than ever before. I was a selfish idiot in my 20’s and would have been a terrible parent, I don’t need to have to explain my life choices to the world all the damn time. I’m realizing I’m just going to stop telling people what my age is because most people have really stupid ideas about age anyways. Anyone else struggling with this kind of BS?