Nope. I was 29 when I began dabbling in paleo/evolutionary nutrition. I didn't want kids then, and now at 33, I still don't. My husband and two furkids are all the babies I need. :) Haven't ruled out adoption someday if I change my mind, though.

I think your feelings are perfectly normal. I was "on the fence" for years before I realized that my indecision wasn't so much because I didn't know if I wanted kids - but that I was afraid I was expected to have them. Not everyone needs to have babies, plain and simple.

No, I'm 29 and have known all my life that I never wanted kids. Heck, even when I was a kid, I didn't really enjoy being around others of my age. I have little maternal instinct, and what I do have is used up on my birds, cat and dogs.

Going Paleo has not affected my sex drive or my nonexistent biological clock. Besides, I think this planet could do with a few less people as it is.

Note: I'm not one of those crazy human haters, who think our species is a cancer and that we should kill ourselves off by not reproducing, lol!

I've always wanted a large family, and just switched to paleo six months ago when my first kid turned one. I want at least one more child for many reasons, but one salient reason is to have a do-over on the pregnancy. With my son, I ate egg beaters, whole grain bread, drank soymilk... It was pretty awful. I would relish the chance to build a paleo super babby out of grass-fed liver, pastured bacon, and raw butter.

Since I started having kids, the urge has never gone away. Since going paleo.. I'm about the same. I am just one of those people with a HUGE maternal drive, and I hate it! lol I know it should be a great thing, but really- I have 6 kids and I was SURE that once I hit 6 I would feel MORE than done. But no, I have many thoughts of "The kids get along so well, we could easily have a couple more." The only reason I won't is because the idea of going through labor and delivery again scares me. I am not one of those women who have easy labors, never :( And of course financially, things right now are tight, but it's temporary and soon things will be back to normal.
So I do hope to foster or adopt when my kids are a bit older.

Not a bit. But then again, I was 53 when I started and a grandmom. :-D

Nope..I'm in my mid 30s now and prior paleo, I didn't have any high sex drive either plus I had no maternal instinct towards kids- and I don't even like pets either. Strangely, I used to want to have kids when I was younger, but after I grew up more and saw how our society has turn into, the less I'd want to have my own breed. Beside there are more to that but I am not obligated to elaborate it any further. I don't hate kids, a lot of my married friends already have 1-2 kids and it's fun to seem them once in a while, but I know myself that I won't be able to be angelic to kids all the time if they'll always be screaming at me 90% of the time.

Good thing Hubby also on the same board with me regarding this.

Yes! I was sure that I was done with one - until fairly recently I've been getting a huge wave of baby fever - so much so that I can feel it in my bones. Hubby is happy since he always wanted more than one. I never connected it to the diet, but it very well could be connected.

As someone who was told by my endocrinologist in my early 20s when it was first discovered that I had PCOS, "You better start thinking about having kids right now or it might be too late" I have gone through a roller coaster of emotions as to whether or not I wanted to have kids. My early 20s were far too busy and I wasn't prepared to drop everything just to have a baby on my doctor's time frame so I resigned myself to not wanting to have kids (as adopting in the future would always be an option). Now that I am much healthier (yet on the brink of it becoming more difficult again to conceive as per Melissa's latest blog about the drop-off rate of healthy births due to age) I have thought more about wanting kids but honestly, I only think about having them now so I can do a paleo science experiment because I think I now know how to raise a healthy family (far healthier than I was raised). This, of course, is not a good reason to have kids because there's a lot more to it than that, obviously!

At this point, I'm fairly confident staying in the "not having/wanting kids" camp but perhaps if I had been able to fix my issues earlier I'd feel differently about the whole thing. When it comes right down to it, kids are costly and are a permanent fixture. You can't throw them back when you get tired of them (like I know I'd probably want to do on occasion).

TLDR edit: Sorry to be so longwinded, but to ultimately answer your question - did paleo make me want to have kids? Uh, yes, but for the wrong reasons.

I already had 3 kids when I started paleo. Granted, the switch to paleo/whole30 only happened a couple weeks ago, but so far, no increased desire to have more children. I do notice an increased sex drive, though, so maybe as my youngest gets a bit older, the idea of more children will become more appealing. I wouldn't mind!

Nope! I had a very strong urge to get pregnant when I was 25 and eating the SADs (I don't think I knew enough about babies and kids to have an urge for them, I just needed to be pregnant). I started eating a WAP style diet after my first was born, gradually moving into a paleo/WAP morph. I never got the urge to get pregnant again because I know knew what babies were like: really hard! I did want a sibling for my first so I did get pregnant again, and it was ten months of living in a black hole of desperation, but I got the sweetest little baby out of the deal. I've also heard that if women alone controlled how many kids they had (and not culture, religion, demanding partners or family), over population would not be the problem it is today.

LC paleo heightens my libido, but at 28 it's not making me want kids. Just sex. Hubby is happy.

Eating low carb significantly raised my sex drive...I conceived my second child post diet overhaul, and he's so much healthier in so many ways than my first child, conceived while following a strict vegan diet(and having been vegetarian and vegan alternately most of my life)...I definitely could have easily had more children, my pregnancy and labor post paleo were a relative breeze, but for a wide variety of reasons, we decided to be done, and my husband got a vasectomy...my sex drive has continued to grow to the point where I'm finally well matched with my husband, whose sex drive is remarkably high...I still get baby fever, but I think that's just normal for a fertile female human! I imagine if I hasn't ever switched my diet, I likely wouldn't have a sex drive(or a marriage) to speak of.

It's DEFINITELY increased my sex drive... But not my desire to have kids right away. I'd prefer to have them somewhat soonish, but the circumstances/man/life need to be decently squared away.

I owe it to my future children to make the best choices possible in advance of getting pregnant. I'm still recovering from being celiac (9 months in to Paleo) and Ive never felt better, but I want to make sure that my body has all the resources it needs for a happy, healthy baby. First priority is to maximize my own physical and mental health and expect the same of my mate. Hopefully I can have a heck of a lot of fun having sex in the meantime-just for practice, of course ;)

Yes. Do I think its because of the diet? No. Currently, I'm 31. I've never had a strong maternal instinct. I can totally walk right by a baby without cooing at it. Unless its one of my nieces. I'd rather hang out with the adults in the room then play with the kids. Hell, I get tired just watching the kids run around. I've thought about having kids, but mostly in the context of "My life is complicated enough, I can't handle kids on top of this." I routinely tell people that between my husband and my dog, I'm already a single parent!

Since I've gone paleo though, I do find myself thinking more favorably about having children. I believe the reason for this is that when I got started on paleo, I listened to a lot of Sarah Fragoso & Chrissy Gower's podcasts. Having a paleo pregnancy & then raising a paleo child some how alays a lot of my fears of having kids. I don't know why because there is still a lot to be afraid of then just what they are going eat.

Anyway, that's my honest weight-in on the question. Unfortunately, I have not noticed any increase in my sex drive since going paleo, but this is probably due to 6+ years on the Pill.

Yes!

I didn't really want kids until I met the man I married a few years ago -- then I knew that someday we'd have to see what kind of interesting creature we could make together. Hubby is older than me (and has two older kids from a previous marriage) and would like kids together but knows that it's critical for me to be able to handle it, so I'm the variable here.

In my early/mid-20s and in grad school, it seemed like such a far away thing, and I knew I was nowhere near ready yet. I may be passionate and driven, but I'm also impatient, picky, needy, and a total wuss at personal suffering. I've got asperger's, so empathy and understanding aren't exactly my strong suits. I sure as hell didn't want to be responsible for another human being.

By the time I hit my late 20s, I was wondering if that "ready" time would ever come -- maybe we wouldn't have kids after all? I felt it would be irresponsible for me to have children when I felt I wouldn't be a great parent, and I figured I still had some time left, right?

Enter paleo, last spring...

By the winter I had a totally new level of energy. Also a modestly increased sex drive, but had a pretty healthy one before so it's not a massive difference. Looking better naked helps :) I also went from over a decade of the pill to a copper IUD, walk around barefoot, stopped washing my hair, yadda yadda. I lost 30 lbs, and I feel so much healthier and natural! Some negative aspects of my Aspie-ness have been reduced, and I just generally feel much more connected to the world and people around me, and better able to handle challenging situations without shutting down.

I'd always been fascinated with things like natural childbirth and attachment parenting, so reading things more recently like Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives and various blogs/threads around here has only reaffirmed my desire to do it right and raise a totally paleo baby or two.

I started Crossfit a couple of weeks ago and that is my last major goal in terms of "baby readiness" -- I'm only slightly overweight now and would like to get strong and fit before tackling pregnancy!

So yeah, over a year of paleo and it feels I've found my tribe, and it has in part been a big baby preparatory journey. I am very happy about that :)