Old Dad & Geriatric Mom Hats

In 2024 the birth rate for women 40 to 44 reached 12.7 per 1,000, edging past teenagers at 12.6, and an April 2025 NCHS report found the rate for women 40 and over up 127 percent from 1990 to 2023. First births to mothers 35 and older rose about 25 percent. Parents who arrive late are a national headline now, and they have a vocabulary: geriatric pregnancy, advanced maternal age, old dad. GERIATRIC MOM and OLD DAD are the plain badges. GERIATRIC AND GLOWING turns the clinical label into a glow, and ADVANCED MATERNAL AGE wears the chart term bare, the one an ACOG spokesperson called the accepted medical phrase. MY DOCTOR CALLED ME GERIATRIC, I HAD A BABY ANYWAY answers the 'Hello there, young lady!' greeting one Romper writer got from her OB at 38. For dads there is I'M NOT THE GRANDPA, I'M THE DAD, from the stranger-mix-up stories of fathers who start late, plus the knees that crack louder than the baby and a worn-out metabolism, which one first-time dad at 45 described as slower than backwards. AARP mail arrives with the daycare bills, and naptime needs a nap. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for yourself, or for the new parent whose knees are older than the baby.