tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490516577630269075.post2445962302400221902..comments2023-10-18T06:46:57.453-07:00Comments on 7 million wonders: The questionCathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475183245822795384noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490516577630269075.post-21240574558116353402011-09-23T12:40:38.496-07:002011-09-23T12:40:38.496-07:00What is it about babies and pregnancy that make pe...What is it about babies and pregnancy that make people think it is perfectly acceptable to ask such an intensely private and personal question? Exactly nine months after Carl and I got married, people started asking us when we were going to have a kid. Approximately two seconds after Joy was born, they started asking when we were going to have another. Apparently my glowering and surly answers have started to sink in, because now that Grace is approaching two and a half years, the question is getting more infrequent.<br /><br />I admire your grace in answering "I don't know." My initial reaction is to always snap "None of your d*** business."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490516577630269075.post-63901707169873814402011-09-23T10:46:34.756-07:002011-09-23T10:46:34.756-07:00Very well written. I'm only in my 20th week, ...Very well written. I'm only in my 20th week, and people are already asking when I want another. How do I tell them, I just don't know - that I wasn't sure if I would ever get pregnant again - that I had begun to feel that I had lost my one shot at this? How do I tell them that already my time for another is running out - that I'll almost be 32 when this one is born, and that everything after age 35 frightens me even more?<br /><br />I usually say what is really the truth - it's in God's hands. Quite honestly, I've learned over the past three years of trying, of a miscarriage, and now what so far has been a healthy (if not miserable at times) pregnancy, that I really have no control over the matter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436252931642915566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490516577630269075.post-13298895758960097082011-09-23T08:12:01.198-07:002011-09-23T08:12:01.198-07:00Oh my gosh, this is so beautifully written it brou...Oh my gosh, this is so beautifully written it brought tears to my eyes! I can't imagine what that was like to go through. I was on bedrest with my first for 14 weeks, so I can relate to how AWFUL that was. (I swear I still have water retention in my lower back from it!)<br /><br />And if you want to, you WILL do it again, and it will be just as beautiful all over again, no matter what it takes. Because that's what we women do. And it's something I get to hang over my husband's head every day when I ask him for a favor. :)But I Do Have a Law Degreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06362410549493994038noreply@blogger.com