When Southern Moms Want Grandbabies

When southern moms want grandbabies, they WANT grandbabies, y'all.

[savannah]

So true and not just with moms. My grandma asked when I was gonna have a kid at my graduation... High school graduation

[cewe]

This couldn’t be more truer! But it’s super sad when you have fertility issues and people continuously ask when are you going to have a baby and what are you waiting for. It’s like damn, I’m waiting on my body to cooperate!

Nah, for real though, I tell them I’m waiting on God. THAT usually shuts them up!

[RhettyforHistory]

So true! Same sort of ladies always tell the younger expecting mothers horror stories about their 37 hour labor and how it came out sideways!

[walterscott]

PS - Why 3 grand moms? One must just be a well-meaning busybody, bless her heart!

[BoyAditya]

So southerner mom pretty much like asian auntie LOL ...
1. When you're single "when will you married?"
2. When you're married "when will you have a child?"
3. When you're have a child, they ask you to have another =_=

[karoleigharmstrong]

AHAHAHAH, so true.
My nanny called me on my 24th birthday and said, "Love ya baby, BUT, here. you are, out of college, unmarried and no children, and your life is half over!"
"48!" I replied, "I only get to live to be 48? What a rip off. Better not get married, better live like a wild child, if I only get 48 years."
"You know, little missy, NO one wants to marry the smarty pants girl.", she sniffed.
Now I loved my nanny beyond measure, but, she was wrong on two counts:
1. I am knocking on the door to 60.
2. My sweet husband married me, knowing, I was a smarty pants girl.
P.S. She got grandson.

[Holly]

You NEVER ask a women when she is going to have another baby, right after she just got done pushing one out of her. 🤣🤣

[celeste]

Pretty much my African grannies, aunties, cousins, neighbours, older workmates, random church mates...etc. I live in Zambia, Africa. So this is universal then

[alietheartist]

When I finished undergrad, I started getting the, “So, are you dating anyone? Are you married?” Their faces when I said I had been accepted to grad school screamed disappointment and then forced congratulations. I would then get the hopeful, “I bet you’ll meet your husband there.” Like, auntie, that’s not even remotely why I’m going.

[nevesdarocha]

Add to that, "You do know that the Lord wants us to be fruitful and multiply."
How are your children going to "rise up and call you blessed" if you don't have any?
"I just hope I'm not too frail and old to lift up my grandbabies by the time they arrive."
And the fun scenario where you have the stomach flu and your mom shows up at your house with a pregnancy test.

[Pandorash]

I remember telling my late husband’s cousin that she doesn’t need to be in a hurry to have children. To just enjoy her life and travel first. From across the park you could hear her mother yell, “Don’t be telling her stuff like that!!” 🤣

[marycatherineryan]

That is so true! You no sooner say " I do" then Southern Mommas are wanting grandchildren, picking out names and buying baby stuff. I didn't mind, because my daughter was born into a family of love and my Momma adored her, but a Southern Grandfather makes a Southern Grandmother look like a slacker, at least mine did. As soon as I was told that I was expecting, my Daddy put his carpenter and contractor skills to work and built most of my daughter's stuff and did her nursery. He never let her out of his sight and she was his angel.

[rileyjones]

My great-grandmother never had to ask this she had 9 kids, 22 grandkids, 55, great-grandkids and I think maybe 10 or 11 great-greats so far!lol

[mcomeslast]

Yup! I gave my mom my life sized twin boy and girl dolls out of my doll collection. Told her now she had some babies to play with. 25 years later, she still brings it up, lol!

[OcotilloTom]

Yup, It's like that. The highlights of a Southern girls life. Graduating high school, getting married, having a baby and buying a burial plot!

[ramicabranham]

Until baby #5 is announced and they tell you to get a new hobby. Lol.

[DaBayleef]

I'm so glad my family lives up north. One grandma wants my cousins to stop having kids and the other one doesn't care at all. No one even questions why my brother or myself aren't dating anyone, it's great!

[walterscott]

You two are phenomenal! This isn't just Southern. It's universal human experience!

[thatgirlinokc]

LOL the gasps! Also banana puddin' sounds so good. As always, it's funny because it's true😂❤🙌 bless ya'lls hearts

[thomasrichards]

Dana says- So funny and so true! After a few years of marriage my "Mimi" (grandmother) tried to give us baby-making advice. She said, "You know, your harvest will never come in if you keep plowing up the seeds you plant." 8-) It took me a hot minute to get what she meant (she thought we weren't getting pregnant because we were having too much sex), but when I did, I about fell out! God bless her.