I'm talking about overwhelming feelings to be a mother, the kind that would cause young girls to get pregnant, regardless of the circumstances. Just curious if this is a widespread phenomenon, or if it's more of a sporadic characteristic. I don't know if intersex condition has any bearing, but I'd also like to know if you were ever ID'd as having intersex condition (although I think most everyone here does, to some degree). Let me hear your comments, girls!

they are up every time i look after one of my cousins or a group of children i'm in charge of.. my maternal instincts are usually at they're peak whenever i use to work at summer camps with my 2nd and 3rd graders. i never use to know why though which was pretty sad.

Yes, to hear my father tell it.
I'd watch my mother with my younger brother and sister and I'd start doing the same. I'd make up bottles and start feeding and chganging my younger siblings. That part of my stayed with me. Into adoult hood and when my nephew was born to my sister she had to point out that she was his mother and would apriciate it if I stopped mothing him so much :p. For my older sisters this wasn't so bad, because I saw them soo little the rest from motherhood was a welcome change.

I've just always been that way, I once saw two children about the same age (thought they were twins because they were dressed the same) and I became alarmed when only one followed the farther out the store. I became very concerned thinking this child was talking to a stranger and was forgotton about. But thankfully the childs parent must of seen my puzzeled and concerned look, because after a second she realised what had happened and luagthing reassured me they were just dressed the same and that no it wasn't a case of a neglegant father having left a child behind.

I suppose I've been resigned to the idea ill won't have any children of my own. For a long time. So I've always compensated for that my mothering and looking out for evry child in my proximity.

Yes and I am in in high school right now so yeah but I don't want any children of mine right now, just in the future....

Only once,the son of one of Mum's friends came to stay with his baby daughter when I was 13.I wished she was mine but some where later something changed and I got a kind of kid phobia!Kids and babys spook me and I don't like being around them or worse still actually holding one I don't hate kids I'm just really uncomfortable round them,I don't know why

always. Its one of my biggest triggers. :-/

I took care of my baby sister most of the time when I was 14.  Trigger much? 

She was such a pain the a$$ in the end that I decided to never have any kids, ever, for any reason.

Indeed, with my long-time GF we have said that when we have children I should be the one taking care of them at home while she does the work .

That was a HUGE problem for me through my teens and 20s! I tried to suppress these feelings but the first time I held my newborn niece everything exploded. Things could no longer go on the way they were - they had to change or I would die.

It wasn't until I was almost 60 that I found out I have a uterus so there was indication of Intersex but I don't think that had much to do with the maternal feelings.

Having children was the most important thing I ever did and as a fulltime single parent I have been able to be a father and a mother all in one. I got full custody of my children the day my daughter was two weeks old and my son 16 months. In many ways I wanted children from day one, but living in a conservative environment meant ignoring that feeling as it was unacceptable.

An example:
Recently I seen a child in a shop alone and I went insane with parental instinct and it took a few hours for it to settle. Indeed, children are drawn to me and will just walk up and hold my hand. Which is sweet and all but can be disconcerting at times when a little child grabs your hand in school yard, just when you are picking up your own kids. Yet at the end of the day I love children and they love me, they tell me their fears and I listen on a bent knee. Oddly it is something I feel naturally drawn too and has only gotten stronger since I became mum and dad.

Bonus:

I can even sooth a baby in seconds!

I definitely had Maternal instincts when I was watching my younger cousins grow up, though I suppressed it fairly well.

Suziack,
Yes, when ever one of my younger cousins would get hurt I would panic and want to instantly make them feel better. I also really enjoyed holding babies, but that was as far as I was allowed to do. I also on several occasions jumped in harms way to protect a small child. Sometimes (rarely) little kids just come over and stare at me or ask me really random questions. My mom recently told me that as long as she has remembered that animals and small children have always been attracted to me. My friend was surprised when her "too vicious for society humane shelter cat" instantly came up to me to be petted and started talking to me when I went to her house for the first time a few days ago.  I just shrugged and was like "cats and kids like me for some reason".

~Jen

Definitely! It really came to fruition at the Fire Station though. I was the one who was shift cook, cleaner, uniform mender, and listener. more than a time or two the comment made in jest was that I would make some guy a nice wife. You should have seen the looks on their faces after I started to transition and made a surprise visit one day after I retired.  To break the tense mood I blamed being trans on them kidding me about it all those years.  It released the tension a little, not much though.