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For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.