With the average age of first-time parents over 30 and rising, having kids in your 20s is increasingly unusual. So what is it like swapping nights out with friends, for endless night feeds?
When she was a teenager, Maya Dupre wanted more than anything to be an actor, like her idol, Emma Watson. By the age of 19, Dupre, from Leicester, was performing in local productions, and attending the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama on weekends. But when she unexpectedly got pregnant, her plans changed. “I had to put things on hold,” she says.
Although she quickly accepted her new reality, not everyone around her did. One family party, when Dupre was about four months pregnant, stands out. Her bump was showing, and a family member pulled her aside to express their dismay. “They said: ‘Oh, it’s such a shame: you had such a bright future ahead of you,’” Dupre recalls. “That really annoyed me, because it wasn’t a shame. It was a massive blessing.” The comment left her feeling “really low”, but it also made her “determined to prove them wrong”.
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