When did it last tell you you should reproduce?

Just the other day I saw my husband holding his nephew in a picture from the wedding, and I desperately wanted to take him upstairs and get started.

A looooonnnnnggggg time ago. Now nature tells me, "Your eggs are old and rotten!" No more kids for me.

babies are adorable... i melt everytime i see one. it's only "natural"


but remember they also hang around your house for the next 18 years!!!!


you are a young newlywed enjoy this time.

emm said:

You're right! Enjoy your time being young and married without kids. You have plenty of time to try for a baby later if you are so inclined. It definitely changes your entire life.

emm said:

no i hear you can give them away after a coupld of months..

hokie1 said:

we are the same age. i hope my eggs aren't old and rotten.
but i bet they are

emm said:

I read an article in Time magazine. Time is a pretty reputable mag right? Anyway...the article said that a woman's fertility peaks at age 27 and goes down from there. By the time a woman reaches 40 90% of her eggs are chromosomally abnormal (according to the article). There are always exceptions to EVERY rule though. Crap, now I feel bad. I'm sorry.

nah, i know my eggs are old
but i came from a 39 yr old egg so i hold that as a bit of hope

darn cute babies everywhere

emm said:

There are a lot of cute babies! I must admit I do miss having a baby in the house. They are just pure sugar. They are so luscious. The only totally sucky part is when they don't sleep through the night, but I was lucky in that dept. I didn't have to suffer too long. They don't stay little long enough. My kids were big when they were born and came out wearing 6 month sized clothes. The first year flies by.

hokie1 said:

I don't even know if I want kids, but I hate that the option is pretty much gone for me now, unless I happen to get married in the next year. It's depressing.

CarrieMpls said:

CarrieMpls said:

You said you were 32 right? That's just stupid old Time magazine. What do they know anyway...Like I said, there are plenty of women who have healthy babies into their late thirties. If you are depressed about it you can rent mine for a week and then you'll change your mind.

Cloudbuster said:

Be careful!

hokie1 said:

Nah, I have nieces and nephews so I get my fill when I want. And most of my life I haven't planned on having any. But every so often biology kicks me in the head and I have to think about it again.

CortestheKiller said:

Each time my daughter was pregnant so - Brady will be one on Aug 31st ...

NOT long ago

eraclito said:

what the hell.... your such a jerk

Nature has never, ever told me to reproduce.

Well we wanted to( have another child) roughly about 3 yrs ago,right after me and hubby got married so that we would have a child together, but previous circumstances being what they were I had my tubes tied 5 yrs before that..we checked into having a reversal, but then when we started looking into the overall pic, we have 6 children already total (I had 2, he had 3 and a step daughter), and considering in all reality within 5-8 yrs our kids would be having kids, we would have a baby to play with..lol..and since the youngest of our children will be 9 in July, we still have at least another 9 yrs of at least one child at home, and by the time Hampton graduates high school, we'll be almost 50.If we had had another child, by the time they graduated we'd be closer to 60..we decided that we wouldn't do the reversal..just enjoy the children and grandchildren ( which by the way we'll have one in Sept) and then take time and enjoy US.. ..btw I had Hamp when I was 29..
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Lothan said:

Me either.

Nature is beautiful.

We may hate and loathe it at the time, but nature's choice wins and what we produce, we cannot at all send it back aand it is such a gift, who can complain?

You know, sometimes I have this feeling about needing a relationship like I'm on my last 2 eggs and I need to make a baby Don't know if it's that proverbial biological clock or not but I can't even imagine what it must be like when you have an actual womb!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It's just natur(e)-al

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It's hell I tell ya. Hormones are a bitch. They trick you into creating devil spawn and then you get fat and your skin stretches out.

Never, but I'm only 22. I have time to make those babies later. I also need to find a man

eraclito said:

For a price.

I still remember the very first time it told me to. I almost fell out of my chair- I was 34- very close to 35 yrs old.

It was a crazy feeling when it came over me because I had never in my life felt that before. I will forever remember that moment and the conversation that ensued.
Though I am 36 now and probably too old...guess I missed the boat.
Ohhh the question was when did it last tell me to.....

I dont know about nature but just on Friday this nail spa owner told me I better get to having another child and not to wait too long bacasue when I reach 35 my bones will get weak and it will be too hard for me to carry a baby after that age. I laughed and she just looked at me with a serious face and told "im serious"

veronikka said:

take it with a pinch of salt. She is crazy.

shanti0608 said:

Honey, 65 year old women have had kids. You are not past your prime. Don't even start thinking that for another 10 years

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

36 is still young to have children.