To be this broody?

[SoVogue]

I'm 26 and absolutely not where I want to be career-wise yet.

But I keep fantasising about having a baby. I get to grips by reminding myself of the fact that I would actually have to give birth...

Is this normal?

I'm not even in an actual full relationship yet!

Fantasies are normal. Is it interfering with your life?

I'm 28; with a lovely partner and settled... and I have this bad right now!

It's par for the course, I think.

Yes, around 23 /24 I started to notice babies

@oneforthepain not at all, it's just a little fantasy I think about a lot. I think about the beautiful little baby I could have, my parenting style, the hobbies I'd want them to do.

It doesn't interfere it's just a huge change considering I didn't want kids at all until a few months ago!

The best part of wanting is not actually having the pressure and stress of a baby yet.
You can enjoy thinking about them, looking at clothes etc but the reality is a LOT different.
My friend was like this and kept going on, and telling me she wanted what I had. I simple said ' When you leave the house you take your bag, well I have to take the bloody house '
There's no rush, 26 isn't to young but if your not where you want to be at the moment having a baby will even with hard work push that back years.

I feel as though I could have written this myself. 26, not where I want to be career wise, absolutely didnt want kids at all until the past 6-8 months - now I find myself fantasizing about what I'd be like as a parent, what I'd teach them, and the joy it'd bring to my family etc.

Sorry I don't have any advice, but know youre not alone!

Oh OP 😭 I’m also 26 and in this stage hard!

I get married in a couple of weeks and despite not being in a ‘fantastic’ established career yet, we’re going to start TTC on honeymoon.

(I do have a lovely job in a multinat with a decent salary and benefits though so acknowledge I’m in no way hard done by)

I knew two women (used to work with) who waited until their mid thirties to try and then struggled horrendously and went through an awful time! I know that’s not always the case but I’m very scared of that happening to me. My personal view is ‘I will always be able to advance my career but I won’t always be able to have kids’.

So do what’s right for you OP not what society tells you that you should do xx