Maternity Musings: The Home Stretch.

[mudblood428]

I'm up early on Saturday mornings, usually stirred out of bed by a combination of aching hips and hunger. (These days "getting up" has a different meaning than "waking up" since I'm now waking about 5 times a night from the bathroom breaks or - my favorite - the baby's seemingly endless hiccuping.) This morning, my husband is asleep in bed, leaving

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[pennswoods]

I wish so much that US culture allowed for more time off or at least allowed for the better integration of parenting and work for those who need or want to continue to manage a career and parenthood. I look around at the social system in place here in Sweden and can see how the structure in place may have led Francis and I into making different choices about parenthood (not that there weren't other considerations - but the financial one was paramount

[rickey_a]

ahhh, mother to be

[mrsquizzical]

♥

[blpurdom]

You mean we're this close to cute baby pictures? Squee! And :hug

[gestaltrose]

I always knew I wanted to be a parent, I am still not sure what I want to be when I grow up and I'm looking at the other side of 40. Thankfully the last 9 years I've been working for the local water district, setting my own hours for the most part and it has been fantastic and allowed me to be the parent I want to be. *hugs* If you ask me was it worth it, the weight gain, the many stretch marks, the long nights when their sick, the OMG I have to take my child to the ER because they are hurt (or swallowed a nail), the headache, the heartaches, all of it... I would say unequivocally yes. Easy... rarely but worth every second.

*loves*