Tick Tock - Biological Clock

pikeey oh its too early just a bit before seven in the am. I was thrilled to find I was pregnant but I am not sure either just what that feeling is that some think they must right away have a baby.I am just too practical as we were still just married sort of and trying to build up some money first and wham I was pregnant in other words we had not planned on a baby until we had been married two years, but I was thrilled and my hubby even more so. I was also deeply aware that we were going to have to pinch a few pennies with the new arrival. I think when you acutally have that little one is when I got this wonderful feeling this is my son, my child, but when the second came 11 months later I was jus overwhelmed and the fact that it was a bad delivery, and she arrived brain damaged did not help . but she was a wanted child, sweet and so very loving and loveable that the fact she would probably never advance byond being four or five years old mentally. not retarded but brain damaged, that is different, result of her not being made to breath for over thirty minutes, she was born a black baby, her sking a dusky shade of blue black, she was revived, finallythen the doctor had the guts to say he was now sorry he had not done the caeseran section that would have saved her. well we still treasured her and had her for only 8 short months. sorry to be sad this early morning.

I have had two children already but would like to have more however I have PCOS and for the past three years have been trying to get pregnant and it is just not happening. I wonder if it ever will again. For me I know being almost in my late 20's I know that if I do not have another child soon I am more than likey done having kids. That is my thought on it.

I never really thought about it or planned for children. We just left it up to mother nature and she chose the timing. I not not aware of ever feeling my biological clock, even now the calendar says I am old but my bio clock does not agree with it at all.

How to explain it, um..... Well, when you see other people with their newborn babies, and they just look so cute, you want one, too. Your mothering instincts kick in, and it seems to urge you to try and have your own little bundle of joy to cuddle and love. Does that help?

Well I had my two children in my twenties which seems to be quite early in life for many these days. But it took me 6 years to get another successful preganancy after the first one. I had one miscarriage in between. By that time I was getting worried becasue of the age gap between the children, not because I felt time running out. That is what I think referring to the biological clock means. My daughter is now coming up to 40 and would love to have another child, her first is now almost 7. But it seems unlikely that she will because she has no partner, so her biological clock is running out.

Hey there! I've never felt this biological clock, which is only one reason I'm child-free. However...with those who have, perhaps they see that they aren't getting any younger, quite frankly. Men are able to father children their entire lives, but women have a certain time frame, and I think biologically the body says, "If you're going to have kids, do it now!" Plus, it may also help that their friends most likely are having kids and raising bigger families, and they want their kids to be around the same age, and to be able to talk about them with the friends they've always known. In saying that, I think it's both a biological and mental connection. A "I don't want to be left out" kind of feeling. I think deep down in humanity there still may be that animalistic competitiveness, one that says your bloodline needs to be bred better than the next. I don't know if anyone can say for sure what the biological clock is, but many women do feel it, so we know there's something to the claims.

Nope. My biological clock's been stopped since........well, as far as I know, I've never had one. Maybe it's because I had my 'Teenpanda' when I was 18 and he's so wonderful, if I had another one it just wouldn't live up to expectations. ;) Then again, I don't understand why anyone actually WANTS to have children, children smell, they're sick on a regular basis, their nappies need changing until they're at least 2 years old, they need round the clock care for quite a long time, and even when they get to 16 they still seem to need their Mums, which is good for me. :)

I think that all human beings have different feelings aspirations and ambitions. So one might not have the same aspirations of another. While the biological clock ticks in most of us, it does not mean that all of us are suitable to be parents and some lack the biological urge to become ones. I think its better not to havekids if you are not willing to do any sacrifices for them.

I am 28 and the way I feel I do not want children. I like them but am not particularly maternal. However, I do worry that might get to a certain age and regret not having them. If I was to have children I would prefer to have then when I am relatively young but I just dont have the feeling of wanting to be a mother.

Hi p1ke, Well for me now there is no way I could or would want a baby! When I did was told that it may not be possible but in me I had a NEED and WANT to have a baby, then on falling pregnant it was like the most heavenly piece of news ever given me..guess unless as you are't a woman you wouldn't have any idea how it feels to want to add to the human race but it is a feeling and wanting too in a woman-maybe someone else can put it in words to explain more..hugs LoLo xoxo

I never really felt much of an urgency or a ticking of my biological clock, until recently... My boyfriend and I have decided that we'd like to have one or two children. I am not sure if I am feeling the desire to have children more so now that I am getting older or out of the mutual wish to have children together, however.

well, i always said i "Never want to have kids." Of course people said,"Never say Never." Not to mention my Mom saying, "The Jewish Mother's curse always works! One day you will have kids just like you!." So, I am now 38 and going through early menopause. I have to use progesterone cream to kick start my period. And lately, i haven't gotten one. I didn't get a period 'till i was 14 and my Mom was the same at that age and said she went through the change at the same time as me. It's like g-d gives us fertility late and takes it away early. The later you start the earlier it leaves. Just not fair. I read online that it is a hypotheses that some men go through a mid-life crises when the find their gf's or wives go through menopause. So they seek out reproductive females. Maybe it's got something to do with sowing wild oats...

I think that feeling is normal for you. Because that will be your first time to have a baby if in case. Maybe it is a kind of curiosity, happy or nervous because it's really your first time...Have a nice day!!!

I am on my mid-20s and I dont quite think a lot about it. This is because I have an older sister (5 years older than me) who isn't feeling it either. Maybe the reason why we dont want to rush into things is because we know very well that our parents started to have a family very early and we know how hard it has been for them. We kind of dont want to repeat the same mistakes they had so by not feeling our biological clock ticking yet means that we are just being careful. My sister and I both know that we will soon feel it though but certainly just not yet right now. :D

Well P1ke from as far back as I can remember I always wanted Children, I wanted 2 and if possible a boy and a Girl but I did not mind either way When I was 16 I was told I may never have any Children, I was devastated, I felt that something was missing in my Life if I was never able to have Children Well as miracles happen I do have 2 Children, yes a lot of Problems while Pregnant but I fought to keep them both and I did and a Boy and a Girl The feeling I felt was that I would not be complete without having Children, I urged to hold my Baby, love it and be a Mum who will always protect and love her Children, I lost that feeling when I was told I could not have Children, the first Pregnancy I had a Miscarriage I didn't even know I was pregnant, I was broken, 6 months later I was pregnant with my Son, constant danger of loosing him through the whole Pregnancy but when he came along I was complete again, the same with my Girl As for adding now I am not so sure if I would even if I did feel not complete I really do not think I would add now or if I would I know I would be more protective then when I was with my 2 when they where born

never really felt the urge - and managed to escape the reproduction thing - but I never felt I had much in the way of superior genetic material that needed to be passed on...

I am quite a maternal person. I like babies and children. I am interested in education. That is why I became a primary school teacher. A female that is sixteen years old might go to further education for two years. Then she might go to university for three years. After that she will begin her career. At age twenty five she might buy a house. At age thirty she might feel her biological clock kick in. She will meet a wonderful man when she is thirty one. Then might marry him when she is thirty three years old. She might have her first baby at age thirty four and her second child when she is thirty six. Some ladies have a surprise pregnancy and whilst they didn't plan it they embrace the idea of becoming a mother to a baby. I knew a girl at secondary school. She used to say that her dream idea was to get married and have children. That is exactly what she did. She married a taxi driver and she had two children. So it is wonderful her wish came true. Some ladies are career orientated and do feel they have a biological clock.

I guess I must have felt it, because I went from not wanting children to "what the heck"... But I didn't think of it as "my biological clock is ticking" or anything like that.

I've heard of the whole biological clock thing, but I don't know what exactly it means or feels like.

I always strongly knew I wanted to have children and did feel when I married my husband at 27 that it should be something we shouldn't put off for very long. I do remember being very aware that my biological clock was ticking but not to the point of desperation, although had I known how things were going to turn out a few years later I may not have taken such a laid back approach. I had my two gorgeous sons when I was aged 29 and 32 and really yearned to have more children but problems set in 18 months or so after the birth of my youngest son resulting in me having extensive surgery and a hysterectomy before I was 40. I sometimes wonder if my awareness of my biological clock ticking was part of a bigger plan! For a while afterwards I felt very depressed about the fact that my child bearing days were over for good - and I still occasionally feel weepy about it, even though I've gone past the age of what would have been natural child bearing now anyway. I am just so very thankful that I have my two sons. I never take them for granted.