Would you like to give birth to a child?

[ginaroxx79]

 A few years ago a woman in the middle east recieved a uterine transplant. The organ functioned normally and had two menstural periods. After about 100 days however a blood-clot formed in the arteries the fed the uterus and had it had to be removed. The reason for the transplant was that she wanted to bear a child, surrogacy being against her religion. The only problem is that the anti-rejection drugs we currently use are far too toxic for a developing fetus.

With this in mind I hope to be young enough when this has been perfected to actually bear my own child. To actually nurture a developing life and bring it into the world would be, to me anyway, the greatest joy I can imagine. If the procedure is not perfected in time I plan to adopt. Just because I do not have a uterus doesn't mean I can never be a mother. There are plenty of children out there that have no parents for one reason or another.

[Shelley]

I already have six so I think I would have to say know. Now grandkids that a different story but I guess that's not in line with the original question.

I have to say Cassie your response doesn't surprise me as it's reflected in how you talk to people here. You can see a motherly aspect to so many of your responses.

Shelley

[Paula2005]

This is an issue I have had for years! There have been so may times I have seen a mother with her child and I get this empty feeling inside.. It really almost hurts. For me, it's something I would risk my life to be able to do, something I have always longed for. I would consider it the most important thing I had ever done.

Luv <3
Paula

[Night Scream]

I would love to give birth to my own child if ti where possible

I would cheerish anything about the female life. In all ways.

[Moni]

Yes I would, to develop a child inside of you and nurture and raise the child.  I have an empty feeling inside when I see pregnant women.  I do not know if they know how lucky they are to be born women.

[Cassandra]

I think most do Moni, Perhaps one day it will be possible for those born in the wrong body to acheive full function and have the joy of that experience. In the meantime we pave the way. As long as medical science has folks who are willing to take the chance then there is always the possibility.

Cassie

[Terri-Gene]

acheive full function and have the joy of that experience

Personally I would agree with you Cassie, but the most common reaction I get from natural born females is "What? are you Crazy?"  Some can't imagine why anyone would give up being a man to become a woman.  Nothing to do with relidgion, politics or intolerance, simply that they don't look at it as a good trade, considering the harder life of a woman in relative compairison to that of a man.

Terri

[Northern Jane]

Being 56, 32 years post-op, and twice married, this is something I have thought about many times over the years.

Yes, I love children. I love babies and children SOOO much that I try to avoid them because I felt it would probably never be part of my life.

When I was young (before 30), I would have KILLED to get pregnant and have a child, but I know now that there were two primary reasons why I felt that way; first was that it would have "proven my womanhood" (NOT a good reason to have a baby!), and, secondly, it is a part of every woman's psyche to want to nurture and coddle the young - basic biology. Heck, when my niece was an infant, I'd lactate just from being around her (and that was before transition).

Intellectually, I could see no reason for wanting to give birth (aside from selfish reasons) when there were so very many children who desperately needed adoptive homes or foster homes.

My sister and I were raised in a very bad environment and I  swore I would never bring a child into a home unless there was a secure, loving atmosphere in which to raise him/her.

I always thought that, when I got married, when the time and the situation were right, maybe I'd adopt a couple of older children who REALLY needed a home, but years went past and the situation was never right so the family never happened.

I did spend some time on staff in a private school for troubled kids and worked with a group of girls in a family unit. If I was temped by parenthood, being "mother" to 6 delinquent teenaged girls for a year is a strong does of reality!

Regrets? Not really. I look at the world that today's babies will inherit and I don't think I would be confident sending a child into that future.

[Alison]

I feel really terrible saying I have -no- desire whatsoever to be pregnant.... If we ever have children they will most definetly be adopted children....

I feel bad because reading about how so many of you would donate your left arm so to speak to have the 'god-given' ability to become pregnant, and it feels like I'm wasting the gift...

[stephanie_craxford]

Hello Alison,

There is absolutely no reason for you to feel terrible for having no desire to be pregnant.  Just because you can doesn't mean that you have to.  People should feel terrible for having children for no other reason than because they can.

Did that make sense???

Take care

Steph

[Chaunte]

Alison,

There is no reason to feel bad!  Not every woman wants a child.  To be honest, I think your desire to give a child lost & alone in this world a loving home is wonderful!  You don't need to have a child be birth to be a great parent.  All it takes is love and an understanding heart.

Chaunte

[Gabrielle]

I'd love to be fully 100% a woman and give birth.

[NightAngel]

yes I do like to give birth to a child with out any question that's probably the only thing which I will be missing in my life after SRS.

Michelle

[Jillieann Rose]

No way!
I love children but I say what my wife went through to deliver our three.
Besides I'm a grandparent 4 times over and I perfer being a grandma over a mother any day.
Jillieann

[Teri Anne]

Well, "no."  I love kids but probably would adopt for a number of reasons (overpopulation, unloved kids waiting to be adopted being two reasons).  And, like some of you, would question the ethics of any new operation allowing us to get pregnant -- chief among the reasons against would be possible danger to the child. 

Had I my life to do over again, I would have liked kids.  People notice that I'm "a natural with them."  My ex didn't want any and so we didn't.  At one point, she got pregnant through me.  I felt a mixture of emotions but felt the decision was hers.  I've often wondered how my life would have been different if we'd had a kid.

But if the movie, "Peggy Sue Got Married" teaches us anything, it's that we would, if given a chance, go back and live our lives exactly the same way -- making the same good and bad choices.

Teri Anne

[stephb]

If I were younger and it were physically possible, I would love to give birth and have children. I love being the father of my two children, but always felt envy of my wife's experiences in pregnency, birth, nursing, and nurturing them. I would gladly endure the discomfort, pain, and fatigue of pregnency and birth in order to experience this. Of course, this another of the facets of life as a woman that I can never have.

Steph

[jan c]

it is amazing to me the change this experience has brought about in me. Taking care of dude's baby has moved me beyond description. I actually can feel that need, depite the insanity of it. [Def. past the child-bearing age, depite any miracles of science the future may have in store.]

[Kaitlyn]

Ohh... maybe it's selfish, but this is one of my deepest desires. From time to time, I wistfully dream of someday being able to carry and give birth to my own children. And when I remind myself that in all probability, I'll never be able to do it, it makes me more than a little sad. Silly, I know, but that's how I am.

~Kaitlyn

[Melissa]

I personally do not wish to carry a child.  I already have all the children I'm going to have and have a special bond with them.  If I had been born with the means of carrying a child naturally, I would have done so, but if a surgery became available to allow this, I would not choose it.

Melissa

[tinkerbell]

Yes, I would love to be a mom to my own child, but unfortunately that was not meant to be in this life  , maybe next time, in another life,  in another dimension, in a different world with a different body.
tinkerbell