Age of first-time mothers hits record high in blue states as birth rates keep falling

Average age of first-time mothers in the U.S. rose from 21 in 1972 to 27.5 in 2024, with stark differences between red and ...
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Mean Age of Moms at First Birth Increased From 2016 to 2023

Similar increases observed for higher-order births; increase in mean age at first birth seen in all racial and ethnic groups. HealthDay News — From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age ...

I Struggled to Connect With My First Baby. My Second Birth Changed Everything.

The author wrote a memoir about how motherhood almost broke her—and what convinced her to have another child anyway. Here, ...
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Tatyana Ali Recalls 'Traumatic' First Birth, Explains Why Her Second Labor Was 'Amazing Experience'

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum is mom to sons Edward "Aszi" and Alejandro Vaughn, 21 months Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment ...