In my case, I was an adopted "only" child that didn't get much exposure to babies and small children until I was around 19 and two of my best friends got pregnant around the same time with their sons. While I doted on their kids, the one time I babysat one of the boys, I got puked on , peed on, and screamed at by him, and that did something to me, I think!
I didn't get married until I was almost 34 and by then my biological clock had already slowed down to a crawl. Both my DH and I had all the exams to see why I couldn't conceive (which were inconclusive), but really, I had never had the unmistakable "pull" to give birth. Suprisingly, though, around the time I hit menopause (early at 45), thats when the "baby craving" hit with such force, it almost broke my heart! After almost 4 years of begging and cajoling, my DH finally gave in after using the "baby card" and let me get a puppy! I am definely NOT comparing my Neo and Connor to a human child, but they give us the "filling" of the hole we felt without them. |