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[quote=Anonymous]I would calmly tell her that you know she is excited for grandchildren (she might have friends who have been talking about them which is what spiking her interest) but that for the time being you are excited to just get married and spend some time cementing your relationship and getting to know each other as a married couple before you even think about adding children to your new family.    She needs to know that even after the wedding you are magically going to produce a child in nine months.

My mother was very excited for grandchildren as well but DH and I waited 3 years to have kids.   I told her very bluntly that I wanted to spend some time on my career and we want to travel and really get to know each other in new ways (DH and I dated for many years but did not ever live together or even near each other during our engagement) before we had kids.   Once I was blunt that this couldn't be a topic she brought up every single conversation she backed off.   And now 18 years later she has her grandchildren and DH and I have a nice strong marriage! [/quote]

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