Maternal Clock

Has anyone else felt the very strong urge for having a child way too young? is that normal? how do you get that thought out of your head?

for the past like...6-7 months all i've been thinking about is having a child, and i dont know what sparked this. i'm only 17! i have all my life to have a child, so i dont understand why my clock started ticking lol. yesterday i met my baby sister, shes just 4 days old, and when i held her i was just thinking how this baby could be mine o.O

anyone else ever felt like this?

natually, i'm not acting on my urges, regardless of how strong they are, because i am too young...but how do i make them go away?

please and thank you
share ur stories if you have something similar
or whatever

I always wanted something that I could love and nurture and it shares the same blood I do...

Luckily I have siblings for that... I guess my urge stems from the fact on how I want to be raised and how I can show my parents that this is the correct way to raise a child... but thankfully I channeled my urge into raising my siblings and being a positive influence on them... hopefully you can do the same

I totally know how hard being a mom is. you see, my mom was just 16 when she had me, and needless to say it didnt end up well. my parents divorced before i was one, my mom got into drugs for a while and had 2 more kids with a different bad exhusband. now she finally has her life together and has, i think, the right guy for her, and the most amazingly beautiful baby girl in the world.

that's why i said i dont want to act on my urges, its just like..something that wont get out of my head. everynight basically i have a child and its tiring. its like..ok clock, give it a rest already

lol

I have felt like that and I still do... it's totally normal.
I think it's hard to let those erges leave, it's not easy... but by helping your mum around or baby-sitting other people's babies and kids you'll feel like part of that hole is being closed.

I wish i could see my sis more, but my mom lives like 45 min away from me. and i dont trust myself with other pplz kids..lol

I get what youre saying.

I'm only 16, and i already want to have a baby. but im still a virgin, and i plan on keeping it that way for a while. i think the main influence on me is my mom had me when she was 18, and shes incredibly cool. shes like my best friend. i want to have a relationship like that with my child, and i think if i have a child when im older, i wont have the same connection that my mom and i share.

another thing is, a LOT of girls in my school have babies, or are pregnant. i dont want to be one of those girls who everybody refers to as a slut because im a young mom. so i just stick to babysitting right now, because being able to handle a two year old and an eight year old at the same time just gets me better prepared for my future.

Thank you sluvious.