Excited for you in this season of life! and for me as I'm entering it too :)
Your thoughts in this article are beautiful, I so enjoyed reading it. My own pregnancy wasn't planned but the baby is definitely wanted, and I haven't clearly thought through any of my own reasons for why I might have waited for a while or for why I'm glad it happened anyway; but I do think that having a little one to care for will be good for me as a person.
Having someone to be responsible for brings perspective, some things are seeming more important to me and other things are fading. I do hope that my husband and I will be able to manage our time and expectations, and I am a little worried about my own personhood being a little lost, but I think that will mostly come down to time management.
I've got a lot of the same worries!! Trying to stay positive as I'm rounding the last corner though--we can do it, and we get to create what it looks like.
Abi, every single thing you mentioned here really resonated with me. As a childless but married ex-Mormon woman approaching thirty, my thoughts veer toward the potential of motherhood and what it could be like basically every day. I love hearing your perspective on it all. Don't stop sharing!
Excited for you in this season of life! and for me as I'm entering it too :)
Your thoughts in this article are beautiful, I so enjoyed reading it. My own pregnancy wasn't planned but the baby is definitely wanted, and I haven't clearly thought through any of my own reasons for why I might have waited for a while or for why I'm glad it happened anyway; but I do think that having a little one to care for will be good for me as a person.
Having someone to be responsible for brings perspective, some things are seeming more important to me and other things are fading. I do hope that my husband and I will be able to manage our time and expectations, and I am a little worried about my own personhood being a little lost, but I think that will mostly come down to time management.
I've got a lot of the same worries!! Trying to stay positive as I'm rounding the last corner though--we can do it, and we get to create what it looks like.
Abi, every single thing you mentioned here really resonated with me. As a childless but married ex-Mormon woman approaching thirty, my thoughts veer toward the potential of motherhood and what it could be like basically every day. I love hearing your perspective on it all. Don't stop sharing!