@DG
This brings us precisely to full circle in this thread, when the all consuming need for a baby just takes over an rationale goes out the window.

My ex "G" was similarly compelled not only because her biological clock was ticking with all the subtlety of Big Ben, but also because she saw having a baby as a "cure" for the pain she was carrying around as a result of her own dysfunctional childhood. She had some serious issues, yet in her mind these would all go away once she had a gurgling bundle in her arms.

It doesn't work like that, babies aren't a magic cure-all. Instead, they bring extra stresses and will cause an already fragile relationship to break. I could see that, but she couldn't, such was her need to have a baby.

And a great many people are the same, they'll just get pregnant because they need to with nary a thought as to how they'll cope once the child grows up. Then no doubt they'll be hassling their kids to reproduce so that then can hold their grandchildren in their arms.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 23 Apr 2008, 17:30, Reply)