does anyone here over 50, still suffer from being broody? please

No 3 children 7 grandchildren all grown and flown
Not broody in the least

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I don't think I ever did! Now show me a puppy and that's a whole different matter!

Me too !!
Mind you I'm pretty well taken with Grogu (or Baby Yoda as he's also known) in the Mandelorian for anyone who has Apple TV.
If that means that broodyness is about to descend upon me , then its too late!!
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A good question. Nearing the 50s, have had secondary infertility and have not stopped trying , well, no contraception. For 7 years now , no pregnancy. My paternal grandpa was born when his mum was 51 in the beginning of the last century, so who knows. Am I broody? Don't know. But since I do not use contraception, might carry my great-grandma's genes, so we shall see

I’m not broody for myself but I would love to have more grandchildren. The three I have are wonderful young people but I miss the days when they came once a week and we cuddled up on the armchair and read books together.

No. I think about my poor old pelvic floor.

God no!!!!

Yes January, I really do!
I have six of my own, and 13 grandchildren, they are my world, and define me totally.
I would love to do it all again, every last minute. However, IF, I suddenly had to raise a newborn now, I couldn’t possibly cope! If I could have my 30 year old body back, the energy, the fitness, the adventurous spirit, I would do it all day long, but, I’m 72, cream crackered, too heavy, grinding to a standstill!
So just a dream….

Not me but my husband would have another ,we have 2Ac and 5Gc .

No, I don’t, though I do notice there are no babies in our family at the moment.. I’m 85 and my children are in their fifties, the grandchildren are teenagers.

I’d like a cat, though.

No I don't feel broody but I love the company of babies and small children. I'm jealous of Grans who have wee grandchildren. My grandchildren have grown up a lot and are no longer the cute, confiding wee things they were. I loved it when they hadn't any filter but now they are too polite and, really, not that bothered about their grandparents. Fair enough. They have their own lives and interests but I miss the children that they were.

I don't think I ever did! Now show me a puppy and that's a whole different matter!

Yes, actually, I do!
So much so that I watch clips of newborn babies. I'm a grandma to two grandchildren but there will be no more, and I miss the tiny baby stage .
My own 2nd baby was born with multiple health problems and a rare disability so I always felt cheated of the special newborn magic. I was stressed with the emergency c section of my first baby, and though I loved them both dearly I'd love to experience the tiny baby stage as I'd like it to be ( but I know that's not going to happen). It's not the same as really wanting to have another baby myself though!

I ceased to be broody the day my second child was born.

No. Not at all.

I have one child. I remember briefly feeling sad after the menopause in my late 40s that there could never be another, but that soon passed and realistically I wouldn’t have wanted another baby then. I wasn’t broody by any means, but I think that sadness at the end of your reproductive life isn’t unusual. The end of one life stage, but the beginning of another. Women who had awful periods must have been very glad to see the back of them!

When we threw out the old cot I worked out 10 babies, DC and DGC, had slept in it at one time or another, surely enough for anyone.

I had a hysterectomy at 40 and for almost a year I was very broody, our 2 were at University and our (younger) close friend was pregnant with her first child.
But the feelings passed and were probably hormonal. 10 years later and we were enjoying our Young Grandchildren and I was exhausted when they went back home.

No I don’t, but I know I’m very lucky to have a gorgeous baby granddaughter to enjoy now.

I taught children who had been born to a lovely couple in their late forties.
They had their older children when they were very young and were grandparents when they decided that they wanted to do it all again.

I'm 66 and yes I feel I could easily do the babies again. Fortunately I have 2 gorgeous grandchildren to love. I do not know if you feel as I do? I tend to think I suffer with the passing of time. A part of your life that has gone.

Not after 50, I don't think. But I used to have recurring dreams that I was pregnant in the wake of my hysterectomy in my early 40s.

And I'm not really a very maternal type at all.

After looking after our grandchildren for 10 nights while our daughter and SIL were away I realised why God gave women the menopause.
I was in bed at 8.00pm every night!
It was wonderful but exhausting.

Not exactly broody but do wish I had grandchildren. I have three children and took it for granted that they would have children, but it hasn't happened.

God no! But I l love babies and am looking forward to hopefully being a gran.

I'm some ways I'm lucky as my 3 year old grandson lives with me so I get to do the looking after a baby bit again after 33 years and everything that it entails ,easier in.my opinion now than what it was when my kids were small