Dang, Boy!
March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:00 am |
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Over the last several months, I’ve watched relative after friend after blogger after sister announce she was expecting a baby. Some of the announcements made me laugh, for I am evil, like the cousin who married a woman with three children. They had one more little girl and then whoops! She got pregnant again - with twins! Some announcements, like my sister’s, made me cry. Some made me cheer, because a viable pregnancy was so hard fought.
As a single woman without an umbilical cord in sight even in the very distant future, so many babies are a mix of contradictions. There’s the initial squee! factor - who doesn’t live a squishy, snuggly, itty-bitty baby?! There’s the financial factor - babies are expensive and I enjoy giving pretty gifts. Then there’s the bittersweet fact that I’ve always loved babies, always wanted to be a mother, but I don’t know that it’ll ever happen for me.
I just found out my cousin K just had a baby boy named John. It’s her second child and he was almost two weeks late. Oh, and he weighed 11 pounds.
So maybe not having to push out something that size isn’t so heartbreaking afterall.
March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Ditto. On everything.
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March 2nd, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
Ohhh yeah. This time last year, we were waiting and WAITING for my SIL to have my youngest nephew. . . either they really messed up on the due date or he was three weeks late. And he was a ten-pounder. She said she forgot how much a C-section hurt afterwards (from middle nephew) so that’s no picnic either.
I don’t totally buy into the “babies are expensive” mantra–they just get expensive when you add on all the things people *tell* you they have to have. It’s a racket, I tell you. Kinda like weddings. Or maybe I’ve just seen a lot of people beat the odds.
(You are SO not old enough to start wondering if motherhood will ever happen for you. And I’m allowed to say that, because I am old enough!)
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March 8th, 2009 @ 3:41 am
A) I haven’t popped over for awhile… HEELLLLOOOO!
B) OF COURSE you will be a mother someday! (if you want to be:)
C) 11 pounds?! F* THAT!
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