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Baby # 2 – A decision made lightly
Scarlett just turned two years old, the birthday that is also the unspoken moment when not-so-new parents actively start trying for kid #2. Since Scarlett was an accident, I never even imagined a number one. But when she came into being, my husband sprung the zinger on me: 0 or 2. I gasped, but he unknowingly echoed the numbers in my own head. Yes, I believed it too. When we were zero, the selfish possibilities were endless. When I imagine two, the selfless possibilities seem endless, too.
One seems slightly cruel, more selfish than zero. My friends who are only children are a little odd about things. Highly intelligent to the point of eccentricity. Socially uncomfortable. Particular about the arrangement of their space. Neat freaks. Loners. It makes sense. Not having to share your space, toys, food or thoughts. Not having someone to look up to or down upon, fight with or fight for, say sorry to, work through difficult social interactions. Having only quiet, boring adults for company.
By Sho Sho SmithThree Decades Later He’s Still My Baby
I must have written to myself a lot as I am going through many old papers such as this one that was written on a typewriter and is almost too faint to read so I copied it onto the computer.
This was written five years after having had groin cancer. During cancer surgery they were supposed to have “cut my tubes” and as result I would no longer be able to conceive. However, in the intensity of a six-hour surgery that required transfusions due to heavy blood loss, they forgot.
I did not discover this fact until two years later when I became pregnant. I chose to not terminate the pregnancy as I was advised to do. The result of this pregnancy has always been an inspiration as I was in a state of heightened awareness and appreciation of all life’s meaning. Continue… »
By Ruth ScottPREGNANT — and not
In the many years I’ve been struggling to get pregnant (and I succeeded once), I’ve never taken a pregnancy test in hopes that it would be negative.
But that’s what I did last week.
A couple of months earlier I took another pregnancy test. I took that one because I was about to begin a medication for a sports injury and the pharmacist warned that you can’t take it if you’re pregnant.
By Cindy BaileyFertility Woes
Another mother in my mom’s group just announced her pregnancy. She’s the third one out of the 10 of us so far. Ours is a group of first-time moms whose babies, now toddlers, are all the same age (16 months), and now three of us are on the road to our second.
I know what will happen next: one by one each of the moms’ bellies will balloon and then pop, and then there will be me, standing there in my non-maternity jeans while the others talk about food cravings and fatigue and sleep deprivation. I will be coming to our weekly playgroups armed with my one beautiful child to find the topics have shifted from napping and pre-schools to the exponentially increased workload of caring for two. Well-meaning, the moms will reassure me that having only one is a blessing, and then they’ll go back to cooing at their newborns.
It won’t matter what they say, though. As deeply in love as I am with my child, and as much as I appreciate his blessed existence, in my head “family” includes more than one child, and anything less is just not complete.
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