At 63 and 71, our friends are becoming grandparents. We're raising a kindergartener.
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Barb Higgins says her life at 63 looks nothing like the typical trajectory she once imagined. She's raising an active 5-year-old son.
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Barb Higgins with her 5-year-old son, Jack.Tony Luong for BIBarb Higgins underwent IVF and gave birth to her son, Jack, at the age of 57 in March 2021.He recently started kindergarten, and she is sometimes mistaken for his grandmother.The older mom brushes it off, saying people in her community support her choice. She has no regrets.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barb Higgins, 63, a part-time CrossFit coach from Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity.Our town is very close-knit, so I already know a lot of the parents at pick-up and drop-off at the school where my son, Jack, recently started kindergarten.Nobody bats an eye when I arrive, though some of the kids seem a little curious about why I look older than their moms and dads.Jack doesn't register that I'm in my 60sOne child said out loud that I looked like a grandmother. Her mother seemed mortified. I didn't mind in the slightest. "I'm 63, of course I look like a grandmother," I told them.…