I like the answer: "NOW!!!", and then start to squat. That will throw the person off-kilter.

Seriously LOL!!!!

Other than the first time I was asked (I was all of 19 and a junior in college), I usually start the facts of life talk. "A mommy and a daddy have to love each other very much, so much that they express it in a very special and private way. That starts a baby growing right in the mommy's tummy area..." Shuts them up every time.

Wait until you have one kid. Immediately people start asking about having another. My baby is 2 months old. Our power was out last week, and I was talking to my dad on the phone complaining and getting out the candles. My mom in the background says "maybe they'll get to working on number 2." Even people at work were asking when number 2 was coming when I took her in to visit this week.

Seriously people, who do you think I am, a Duggar?

Holy crap. I think my response would be "you do realize I just pushed a HUMAN BEING out of my vagina, right? You are aware I didn't lay an egg?"

Hell...that's how I'm here! My sister and I are 11 months and 2 weeks apart! :eek: My grandparents, however, were not excited about the prospect! Birthcontrol, anyone?!

Pretty much.

My current answer: When I get a new kitchen. I told my husband when we bought our current house in 2008 that we aren't having kids until we remodel the kitchen. There is no way I would want to deal with being pregnant and going through a remodel, or having an infant/toddler/any other age child while going through a remodel. Especially of a kitchen. Therefore kitchen > baby. Period.

When my mom starts hinting I tell her I don't have a new kitchen yet, and if she'd like to contribute to the fund she's more than welcome to. Considering that I was the only full-time income for 4 years & am still the primary breadwinner, we own two properties (i.e. $$ down payments, upgrades, unexpected repairs, rental issues, mortgages, etc), and are dealing with other things? Shelling out $10-40k on a kitchen is not on our priority list.

Of course, it also helps that my husband and I both have brothers that are older than us & have infants. One is 14 months, one is 3 months. So both sets of parents have grandchildren and are temporarily satisfied :D

I think when it's your own kids, you learn to ignore it better.

I've answered "never" and people have the audacity to ask "why not". Oh, that boils my blood. Hubby says people are just making conversation, but it's rude, and the reasons why I am not having kids still make my heart break.

I also hate hearing "you can always adopt", but again, with my health issues, I couldn't take care of a child as I would see fit, and it's likely that I wouldn't see the kid graduate. I could never knowingly put any child through that.

One of these times you should just tell them that and see them squirm! It's really no ones business but your own. I don't want them for my own selfish reasons, and I'm so tired of everyone assuring me that I will one day. How in the world do they know that I just can't have them and that their words aren't tearing me up inside? I'm sorry people are so unintentionally cruel, ree-Xi!

I agree. Tell them exactly why, and hopefully they'll learn a lesson and never ask such asinine questions of anyone ever again.

Oh, sometimes I do. I have left a few people with jaws dropped and I have to say, I don't regret it.

That's usually when hubby breaks out the "people are just making conversation." I know that he knows it kills me inside, and he's just trying to make me feel better.

HA! I love this :)