...to think the tick tock of the biological clock is a real thing?

[DerFlabberghast]

I'm in my early thirties and have never been maternal, I dont feel the need to breed and have always been happy with my decision, in the last few months though my ovaries have been raising a disapproving fallopian brow and seem to be trying to remind me that's time's running out, a bit like an interfering elderly lady at church asking you if you've got a boyfriend yet over tepid post-sermon nescafe.

I have the nurturing instinct of a concrete floor so I can only assume the biological clock is a real thing. I've even dreamed about children recently and woke up a bit gutted I'd never hold my own newborn...it's as though my uterus has grabbed a couple of glittery pom poms and is dancing up and down shouting 'Bitch i'm here!'

Nothing else about me has changed, is this actually normal?

Oops, sorry for double post

I never thought it was the courage of my convictions to remain childless GoodnightSeattle. Having a child ‘just in case’ because if I didn’t I might later regret it, would be immoral. If it turned out I was right, and I didn’t want children, the child would be the one who suffered most from my decision.

People seem to think ‘oh well if you had one, you’d probably be an okay parent’. But in my experience, that is not guaranteed to be the case. I used to work in criminal investigation and there's plenty of terrible parents out there. I'm sure people who work in teaching, paediatric medicine or social work would say the same. Lots of people are not cut out to be parents. There’s enough unwanted children out there without adding to their number.