Being Broody

[Serious88]

I've just read a few posts about people who say they're broody and it makes me curious. What does it actually feel like to be broody? What does it mean? What do we do? Is it about being overemotional if someone points out that a twenty-year old just had her second baby and you are 28 and can't decide if you have the resources to go for it? Is it like when you question how happy you are being who you are and doing what you do? Or is it just a vague feeling of not being fulfilled enough and hoping that a pregnancy would fix that? Is is just hormones? Longing to be pregnant? Or longing to be a mother again (or for the first time)? Or is it when we don't know ^^ we want but just feel sad when we see someone with a baby and we don't have that???
How do other people experience being broody?

Ooh interesting question, I'd never really thought about it before! I'd say I'm definitely broody at the moment, and we're about to start trying for our second. For me, the main thing is just a very clear want for another child, despite knowing I really didn't enjoy pregnancy or the newborn stage - the want for another is overriding that. Also, I think a bit of longing or even mild jealousy when I see someone pregnant!

Yes, I recognise all those feelings, after my first baby. All very true for me, too.

But I sometimes look back at the time before my first when I was broody and didn't even know it? So it kind of popped up in all sorts of weird and mad ways.
Has anyone else had that??

For me it is a heart over head type feeling. I am coming up to 39, I have three children already - two of whom are adults and we have discussed and dismissed the idea of a 4th ten years ago when we had our youngest. And yet these last six months or so, the desire is so strong to have another that I feel almost in battle with myself. I am hoping the sensible part of me stands firm 😁