How old where you when you became an aunt or an uncle?

@oldchem1 (8132)
June 29, 2010 1:37pm CST
As I was 45 when I had my last son and already had four older daughters it meant that I and two other daughters were pregnant at the same time. This meant that my son was just 11 weeks old when his niece was born, two weeks later his nephew was born. He was a very little uncle!! He now has nine nieces and nephews and is expecting the tenth in September and he is still only 14 How old were you when you became an aunt or uncle?
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@rosie230 (1704)
29 Jun 10
Wow... he really is a young uncle!! I am not an aunt as yet, and I do not believe that I will be, my brother says that he does not want kids, he is happy the way he is... he has a girlfriend who has 1 little boy just a little younger than Jason, so I guess if they got serious I would be his step-aunt if there is such a thing... but she does not want any more kids, so looks like I will just be a Mummy, which I love.
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@oldchem1 (8132)
29 Jun 10
My husband is the eldest of nine kids and I have one sister but I only have 1 niece and four nephews - and there will certainly be no more now!! It's grandkids I collect by the dozen - I will soon have ten of them - Christmas is a nightmare!!
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• United States
29 Jun 10
I have 36 nieces and nephews in all. I have one brother and seven sisters and am next to youngest in line. I have just one child and have two sisters who are still maiden aunts and will never have children of their own. Aren't family dynamics fascinating?
@debsgw (256)
30 Jun 10
yeah family dynamics are fascinating alaskanray, you're certainly right there and 36 nephews and nieces - wow, my aunts' family is like that, she has 5 children and they each have several children apiece, I have difficulty remembering the names of my cousins children and their ages but they are all very close and often holiday together as a group, almost enough of them to fill a charter lol but I think it's wonderful that they all get on so well. I have only one niece so far and was in my thirties when she was born - boy did she make me broody for a while :)
@ellie333 (21016)
29 Jun 10
Hi Oldchem, My eldest daughter is 23 and my youngest brother is 25 so he became an uncle at 18mths old. I also had my son late in life and when I am out with my daughters and him people presume that is is one of my daughters sons rather than my own lol. I think I was in my thirties when I first became an aunt when my other brother had his son and my baby brother has just had a nephew born at the start of the Football World Cup. Huggles. Ellie :D
@ellie333 (21016)
29 Jun 10
Also meant to add that it must have been strange for you being pregnat at the same time as your daughters. Huggles. Ellie :D
@oldchem1 (8132)
29 Jun 10
It was very strange, and then when the babies were born we would all walk in a little crocodile one day a week with our prams. They lived in a different town but would come over once a week for our walks!!
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
Jack and Harry - Uncle Jack and Harry take a bath!
This is Uncle Jack, 8 years ago with his nephew Harry having a bath together!!
• United States
30 Jun 10
I was an aunt when I was born! My brother was 25 years older then I am and was married and had a child before I was born! My neice was born a year after I was and the other one 3 years later.
• United States
30 Jun 10
yep, a baby aunt!!!! Never see them now, we have all growed and gone different directions.
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
so you are a little aunt!!
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
i became an uncle when i was eighteen when my sister in law gave birth to my first nephew. i didn't mind and i even took care of them when they were children. they are nice kids but very intelligent and sometimes fight each other for stuff that's not important. but it's nice having kids even though it's not yours
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
Good practise for when you have your own!!
@karen1969 (1779)
30 Jun 10
I haven't become an aunt yet, because my little (half) sister is only 9 years old!! But she is my Dad's daughter from his second marriage and I already had 4 kids by the time she was born, so she is now auntie to 4 teenagers all older than her!!
@oldchem1 (8132)
2 Jul 10
• Philippines
9 Jul 10
I was 20 when my brother got her girlfriend pregnant (who, by the way, is now his wife). It was one of the happiest moments in our lives. I love my niece!
@oldchem1 (8132)
9 Jul 10
Children do bring so much joy
@Naisan (215)
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
yesterday actually...my sister announced that she is pregnant; so now at 25 im officially an aunt
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
How lovely, bet you can't wait!!
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
29 Jun 10
I never had that honor. I had one sister but she had muscular dystrophy from birth and had her tubes tied when she got married. She didn't want to chance passing it on. It was for the best, anyway, because her marriage didn't last and she would not have been able to physically care for children. So, I never had any nieces or nephews. I wish I had been able to. My husband has two nieces but they were already grown and one was already a mother when my husband and I met. Plus, they live about 300 miles from us so we don't see them very often. All I can hope for at this point is grandchildren. I'm not a granny yet but I sure would love to be. My oldest son just turned 29 today... actually, he'll officially be 29 at 8:34 tonight, in about 4 hours. He has an on again/off again relationship and they're nowhere near marriage or babies. My youngest son is 26 and knows that he is not ready to settle down. Sigh! Maybe, before I'm too old to enjoy grandchildren, I'll have at least one. I had neighbors where I grew up where the mother of my best friend was pregnant at the same time as her oldest daughter. Her daughter had her baby first, which made my friend's mother's baby younger than his niece! He was born a month after his niece was. That's weird!
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
I'm sure that you'll be a granny quick enough!! You'll certainly know about it when you are!!
@alabella (91)
• Poland
2 Jul 10
I became an aunt when I was in a primary school :) But not a real aunt. I have a younger brother, 14 years younger and I became an aunt for his small friends :) Now I am very often an aunt but still not a real one as my brother and sister do not have their own kids yet. But I wish I were...
• India
23 Jul 10
Well that was at 16, my eldest sister became a mother then, and i was uncle of my nephew, my nephew is 48 now, married having kids and grankids.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor
@aisa62379 (150)
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
i was 16 :)
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
So quite young really but old enough to babysit!!
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
Sounds like you have a one big happy family. =) I became an aunt 18 years ago so I became an aunt when I was 6! That doesn't win over your baby boy - haha. But, I have an uncle who is as young/old as me. I don't call him uncle, of course. I just call him by his name.
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
No none of Jack's nieces or nephews call him Uncle, he is like a brother to them
• Kenya
30 Jun 10
I became an uncle at 6.This is a suprise to many because i was supposed to be called an uncle by people who were far much older than me but they used to shy away.What a great felling i had to hear them call me "uncle".This was because they would give me the respect they accorded the older uncles.They would reffer to me as the "uncle small".
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
Uncle small - I like that
• United States
30 Jun 10
I actually became an uncle pretty recently. My nephews name is Caiden and he is beautiful, I'm currently 18 years old and he is almost 2. I became an uncle at the age of 16 which I consider pretty early, and I love it!
@oldchem1 (8132)
30 Jun 10
I think you sound as if you are a good uncle too1
@DeenaD (2684)
• United States
30 Jun 10
I was already thirty-three when my oldest niece was born, and aside from her, I have only one nephew who was born when I was thirty-five. Now one interesting thing is that my mother was already an aunt on the day she was born, because she had a sister who was much older and who was already married with children before my mother was born.
• United States
30 Jun 10
I became an aunt for the first time at 18. It was the year I graduated high school. The second niece was born four years later, and a nephew came two years after that.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
30 Jun 10
That is a tiny uncle! I have nothing out of the ordinary here. I became an aunt by marriage at the age of 34 and an aunt by blood when my sister had a baby and I was already 40 years of age! So unlike your very tiny uncle I was a veteran by the time I got to experience being an aunt!
@much2say (56053)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 10
I guess they're more like cousins, eh?!! I'm not an aunt yet. But my sister just got engaged . . . so I'm hoping I will officially become an aunt in the next five years!! She says if they decide to have kids, they would only have one. Right now I'm 41 going on 42 soon . . . I want to be an aunt . . . but I'm not going to press the issue - hee hee.
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
2 Jul 10
I was 20 when i became an uncle of my niece.
@elvieb02 (695)
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
I was 24 when I had my first niece. My sister who was 28 that time gave us the very first beautiful baby that we really proud of. Then after her, I gave birth to another baby girl just 2 years after my first niece was born.