Same.  We had a hell of a time conceiving, and as a result, we're also in our late 30s.  This was kind of our final attempt before considering adoption.  But luckily, our first round of IUI fertility treatment was successful.  Doubly so.

So the wife had a c-section, the babies were born 6 weeks early, and other things that can come from having your first pregnancy so late in life.  Totally worth it though when I look down at two healthy little creatures.

They might embellish it a tad, yet out of personal experience it does more than cure back pain. For one it really stimulates the digestive system as I always have great bowel movements after the chiropractor lol. It did calm our baby down a lot. It's not a miracle cure, but it does help. However it helps as a regular thing, so it can be quite expensive, and it did not cure the acid reflux.

My chiropractor does go pretty far with the no need for pain meds and natural health products. I rather take Advil than drink some expensive tea hoping it will dull the pain a bit.

I'm 38 and the wife is 39, and we're on our first (likely only) child.

I had a friend several years ago that had her first child at 40.  She specifically told me not to wait that long, as it's a lot harder to handle all the stuff that goes along with a kid when you're older.  Clearly, I didn't listen, and I'll have to learn the hard way.  

That, and you'll be 60 by the time they move out, if you're lucky lol. Hopefully my kids don't wait that long so we can still enjoy grand children. Time for us to pressure our children into having kids! Atm it's all that newfangled school math that's stumping us. Math was very different when we were kids.

Side note - that newfangled math is exactly the way I've always done it in my head.  I had problems in school often because I did math in my head, and couldn't write it out and show my work the way the teachers wanted.  Now, they switched it to exactly the same way I wasn't allowed to do it when I was in school.  

With that said, I do not think that the new style is better than the old ways.  It happened to work well for me because I did it in my head.  But, it seems unnecessarily difficult to write it out the new way.  I guess most math is real life is done in one's head though.....

That's true, it's a lot like making change.

What math do you actually use in real life:
- Making change is going away, tap to pay, pay by phone, who uses cash anymore. I do for coffee, that's about it.
- Calculating tax and tips in your head, very useful!
- Unit conversions, living in a country that uses all units it's pretty necessary.
- Square meters / square footage for home improvement stuff.
- Diagonal dimensions to width / height for 16:9 displays, always need that!
- Time estimates to get somewhere, although google maps will tell you.
That's about it.

I did finally use algebra when playing Elite Dangerous. Fun to calculate at which velocity I should engage the engines to stop in time, given a certain starting height, max engine thrust and known g factor of the planet below. Then trust my 200 million credits ship on my math, start free fall and stop 10 meters above the surface. Adrenaline rush lol.

I'm 37 and my wife is 39. Things will be interesting for sure.

You did not have to listen ,there are also people that are able to handle it better at an older age.

But it is the truth, in the UK and Sweden immigrants do it for the gov money.

I heard people saying that,they never even come close or know anything about immigrants and just repeat what others say.

Its easy to be closeminded.