I was finally inconvenienced by the global health pandemic when my book launch was cancelled. Well, it had been pretty inconvenient to be pregnant during a global health pandemic, and have a brother nursing ventilated Covid patients in ICU while unvaccinated, but whatever, that was 2020.
I am not entirely sure of the point of this article. Is it to say: hey, women who are ambivalent/not interested/against having a baby, change your mind based on my personal experience? That's how it reads. And while perhaps the nostalgia presented here is very familiar to mothers, as someone who doesn't have kids it reads a bit patronising. Like I don't know my own mind or my own choices, or perhaps that the very real barriers I might have to having a baby (financial, lack of partner, fertility) are somehow non-existent? I guess what I'm saying here is as a non-parent this article doesn't feel like it is relatable at all to me.
I am not entirely sure of the point of this article. Is it to say: hey, women who are ambivalent/not interested/against having a baby, change your mind based on my personal experience? That's how it reads. And while perhaps the nostalgia presented here is very familiar to mothers, as someone who doesn't have kids it reads a bit patronising. Like I don't know my own mind or my own choices, or perhaps that the very real barriers I might have to having a baby (financial, lack of partner, fertility) are somehow non-existent? I guess what I'm saying here is as a non-parent this article doesn't feel like it is relatable at all to me.