why kids? - Page 3

[borbonmamma]

Originally Posted by kay4

I've always wanted to be a mom, ever since I was a little girl.

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everythng was perfect, I wanted twins...

and I got them, I just love children and I knew that I was going to be a good mom when I babysat my neighbors daughter for the first time when I was 11.

[AnalogWife]

I had nephews and I loved them but I believed for a long, long time that kids would cramp my style. One night my SIL asked me to take my 8 yo nephew to his school's Halloween Dance and the community of Family Life hit me like a freight train and I then knew that I wanted part of it. Convincing my "the world is overpopulated" DH was a whole 'nother ball of wax, but eventually it worked and now we have a child, but not children.

[Belia]

I always wanted to be a mom growing up.... but as I got older, I wanted children less and less!!! It was like once the reality of what parenthood means sunk in.... once I was living a life with money and a career and graduate degrees, and I realized all that I would have to give up to be a parent.... it never seemed to be the right time.


I got married at 25 and thought "I'll think about kids when I'm 30."

Then 30 came and I thought "No way!!! I'll think about kids when I'm 35."

Then 35 came and I though "Well, shit. I'm still not ready. But its now or never I guess."

And we got pg a month or two later.


Now I wish we had started sooner so that I wouldn't feel pressured to have another before my biological clock runs out.... but at the same time, if biology wasn't a factor, I would still have wanted to wait.


To be honest, having a dog made me more willing to get pregnant than anything. I love my : so much, and sacrificing for her is so easy, that I figured I could handle a baby too.