How do I order up a couple of grandkids for my 30 year old kids?

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If there something I’m continually being chalky with is not having any sign of grandkids.

If only my pair of kids with their wife and fiancé would take the hint I’ve made out loud umpteen times, to give me a grandkid to love and cherish and especially and selfishly take my mind away from the cancer.

I don’t want cats and dogs, i want another generation.

A generation that would be carrying a flawed gene I their view and nothing to sing and dance about.

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When I think back to my own circumstances, my wife said one day let’s have kids, so we did. It wasn’t very successful at the start with too many failures (miscarriages) (possibly girls?) but eventually had two boys.

But the last thing in our mind was the cancer in her family and the copd too. There was no history on my side so we didn’t know if there was any hereditary diseases but nor did we care.

Our perfect kids made our lives.

Our babies were not designer.

Our babies were loved for what they are.

Our children have no interest in having kids and it killing me.

I want my and my wife’s toil to be worth something other than two kids, I wand grandkids. Is it much to ask!

I'm so sad inside about it but my family can’t grasp how desperately important it is to me.

i don’t want to twist the kids arms I want them to want kids too.

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Every time someone on this forum (prostate especially) mentions their bloody grandkids I could cry. It’s not fair. It really isn’t. I’m ashamed to say.

Sorry, it’s smithing I just had to say…

  • On your darkest days it will give you something to keep going for. On your brightest days it will shine even brighter.  I am sure I have mentioned before that when I became an incurable I also feared I wouldn’t live to see grandchildren. My daughter in law produced one last September and my daughter produced another in November. Just like buses all coming at once. Sadly we don’t live near either couple, although we will all be together tomorrow. It takes a lot of coordination to get us all together as neither couple has yet braved the challenge of visiting us with the vast mountain of stuff travelling with a baby seems to involve. From your references to your youngest on your blog, I think your new grandchild will be closer to hand than mine. Enjoy!

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