Mum's the word
My mother has been going on and on and on and on and on (etc.) about grandchildren for the past ten years or so. She got rather excited at the point where I nearly got married, but alas, that was not to be.

Trouble is, I did get broody. Very much so. And when you get baby fever it takes over your mind and every woman/animal/plant you see is pregnant and the world is one big fertile place just waiting for your hormones to jump on board. The last thing you need in that state is a) your partner saying "but I don't want to have kids" and b) your mother wailing "Why won't you give me grandchildren? WHY?". Oh, and c) your shrink instructing "Don't get pregnant on this medication. DO NOT get pregnant on this medication".

So I didn't get pregnant - a broken relationship, lack of sex, maternal pressure and sodium valproate does that to a person. Did my mother shut the hell up? No.

Now I'm out the other side of broodiness. I no longer feel like crying in anguished jealousy for three days when a friend tells me she's expecting. I no longer feel the absolute, abject terror of dying childless without passing on my DNA. Did my mother shut up? No.

Last time she tried it though I decided I could cope with an argument so I took a deep breath, turned around and said in a wounded tone "I know you want me to have children. I do too. Well, it wasn't for lack of trying. I think all the men I've ever slept with have been shooting blanks." She actually shut up.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 9:55, 5 replies)

I get this...
Though not from my Mother, it's from my Dad.

I'm the last in the 'line', you see, so he's piling the pressure on me not only to sow my seed, but also (if I would be so kind)to produce a boy. A nice Danish boy with a Danish name.

No pressure there, then! :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:17, closed)

my mother
got two dogs instead, which may as well be children the way they're treated (i.e. better than my sister and I ever were).
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:22, closed)

@DiT
I prefer the "plowing your furrow" to "sowing your seed", but I assume that's not helpful towards procreation...
( Cawl, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:25, closed)

you have my deepest
I keep having to press "snooze" on my biological clock.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:35, closed)

Nearly there!
I have managed to hold off family members interested in my reproductive ability and now at the age of nearly 43 they've finally given up and resigned themselves to my barren spinsterhood. I did have a lesbian phase in my twenties and that kept them at bay for a while. I also omitted to mention when my lesbian phase ended so that they wouldn't start the nagging again.
( girlinthehole, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 10:59, closed)