Too young to be a mom?

I never feel I’m too young to be a Mom . . . when I’m in Utah. My friends all have babies and I seem to fit right in to the Utah mold of mid-20s with at least one kid.

But on a recent trip to New York, I could not have felt more like a freak. Yes, I did get married fairly young — just after my 20th birthday — but my husband and I didn’t have our daughter Nicole until I was 25. I think that’s a perfectly acceptable time to start procreating — by Utah standards anyway.

But while talking to some of my East Coast girlfriends on the trip, they informed me that having babies before age 30 is really not done anymore. In fact, they say 35 years old is more the norm nowadays to start a family.

Well, slap a petticoat on me and send me back to the 1800s.

One friend even pointed out that the reason I kept seeing so many women with twins in New York was because many women are waiting until their 40s to get pregnant and have to undergo fertility treatments.

Is there a “right age” to start a family? What do you think is too young — or too old — to have babies?