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littleredfishlittleredfish member
in May 2012 Moms

I work with a lot of women who never plan to have children, only 2 others have them. The other day our lunch conversation about what we'd do when we got old/die jokingly turned into is it better to have kids or no kids. The no kids camp was going into how they'd hire nurses to care for them and then buy fancy caskets with all of the money they've saved from not having kids.
It's so hard to imagine my life without kids, but if you had gone that route, where would you be?

I was worried about my fertility for a while because when I had multiple surgeries and chemo treatments between the ages of 17-19 my doctor discussed the possibility of no kids for me. I had almost resigned myself to that fact and over the years before DH and I had DD, accumulated 3 dogs and 3 cats. So I think I'd be living on a hobby farm somewhere with tons of animals to fill the void for me. That, or traveling to keep myself busy.

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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    My oldest was born when I was in college and in a rough point in my life. As cheesy as it sounds he made me want to be a good person to grow up and care about others and my future. Without the changes I went though at that pint dh and I would never have m
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    There are several women at work who 5 years ago said no way they never wanted kids.  Now 2 have them have had oops pregnancies and are beyond thrilled...one of them is pregnant with a 2nd planned this time.  One of them is trying and the other s
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  • tarapike86tarapike86 member
    If we were childless now I think we would be looking into adoption or fostering. I have always wanted to be a mom and there was a time before charleigh when we thought it would not happen for us. It took three years and two rounds of clomid for us to get
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  • picklesxpicklesx member
    I don't think much would be different, honestly. We would still only have our 1 dog, still be in the same careers. I might have pursued a law enforcement job a bit more aggresively, and I wouldn't have traded in my Corolla for a Santa Fe, but other than t
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  • tbmadeamistaketbmadeamistake member
    I think the biggest difference is that if we didn't have LO, we'd travel a whole lot more!  There are so many places we plan on going, and that's been put on hold until LO is a little older. 

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