Posted on 05/11/2021 5:02:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
I always tell older women if they would have had 10 kids they would be a different woman now.
And paid by the word.
All females should know about the Inhibin B test.
It may save your life...and it’s not normally ordered.
The biggest regret of my life to date is having my tubes tied because we thought that two children was the perfect number for us. We had a boy first and then a girl so our little family was complete.
We decided when the second was born that we wanted to be able to give them more than we had growing up. Little did I know that more siblings was the best thing we could have given them! The stuff we gave the two we had is long gone and forgotten.
I have six siblings and while we never struggled or went hungry, we didn’t have a lot of the extras other kids from smaller families had. Now as we reach our mid fifties and sixties, we appreciate each other more than any of the toys or stuff we didn’t have growing up together.
Since we started late, I was 31 with our second, it was too late once we realized we should have had more kids.
Looks like nobody is interested in what this woman was saying and feeling.
I personally found it very affecting and understood her emotions. It is a bit of a warning to others in similar situation.
Too bad her husband was such a wimp about vasectomy. Oh, sure he loves his wife....
Thank you for posting this.
Yes, but now her husband has the option to leave her and start a second family.
Happens all the time.
They have these new inventions. They’re called condoms and spermicide jelly. :)
God is the one who decides how many children a couple can have. Pondering?
You noticed that too?
I’m glad for her husband’s sake he didn’t let himself effectively get neutered.
That way when she takes the kids and house to “find herself” he can have more kids of his own.
Story said she had them removed. Sounds like a bigger deal than a laparoscopic snip.
Well, that’s a just a wee bit harsh....
The cultural trends suggest that as a likely outcome.
“But there’s probably not a woman in the world that can say it in less than 1,500 words. And subsequently repeat it 3 times.”
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1. Didn’t want additional children.
2. Realized my Fallopian (sp?) tubes could be the source of future cancer and had them physically removed.
3. Suffering emotional angst because while it may be for the best, it cannot be undone.
Less than 1,500 words. Nothing repeated.
“The first baby is the hardest because you are learning so much.”
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I’ve heard and read the first child is often the ‘experiment,’ or the ‘educational’ child. LOL
“Too bad her husband was such a wimp about vasectomy. Oh, sure he loves his wife....”
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Woa. I think if this were a reading lesson and you were tested you’d probably flunk.
At NO time did the woman say/indicate her husband was NOT considering going along with the vasectomy.
You are doing a great job of Projecting. Projecting from what source, would be a very interesting conversation....
Back to the reading assignment: You need to take the book back home, read it a bit more closely and doing a better book report on it in advance of the upcoming test.
LOL
Wow.
It is true. We had four and after the second we were old hands at parenting. After our third I actually felt someone was missing.
Doubtful. Long waiting lists to get a healthy infant in the US. and you’d better be politically correct
Why is this here?
What is this woman trying to say? Sounds like a lot of whining, remorse and foolish decision making to me.
Should this have been a letter for Ann Landers or Dear Abbey?
I don’t know why I bothered to open this. Thinking maybe it was some kind of medical or scientific information?
It was the first night and our smoke detector went off at about 3am.
In about three seconds I went from sound asleep to being wide awake outside our bedroom with the hall light on in order to verify that the house was on fire. It wasn't.
But my scrotum was. I remember thinking, "Damn, I hope this pain goes away soon".
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