I'll be 24 this year. I'm not married at the moment, but I know that I'm never going to want children. I carry a gene that has a 50% chance of making any male I birth mentally retarded.
I don't want kids, and even if I did, [i]I[/i] wouldn't want to carry or "grow" one myself. Nothing about pregnancy, child birth, or having a little baby crying all the time appeals to me. I mean I have a 9 mo. old nephew who's adorable (most of the time), but I just don't want one for myself.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll not ever want kids, and even if I did I've always said I would adopt.
I know my mother had 3 of us before she had tubal ligation, i.e. got her tubes tied. But is that something I can do now, without ever having had kids? I have had one pregnancy, which I terminated around 8 weeks, I think. And though I take preventive measures now, if I were to get pregnant again, I'd do the same thing.
I am going for my annual check up in a few weeks, and I plan to ask them then, but I'd like some info before then.
