Yes, I got that one all the time. Well, I never changed my mind! And there were many reasons for choosing not to have children.
What is selfish of others is when they will ignore any genuine fertility issues and expect a woman to go ahead anyway. I had enough problems that as it turned out, had I tried, I would almost certainly have had frequent miscarriages, stillbirth and likely been very ill or died in childbirth.
I believe my body knew it was wrong for me to have children and that's at least some of why I didn't want them. But I didn't discover this until long after I had decided anyway and it just came up in the course of some health investigation I was doing...
Why do women have babies?
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Yes, I got that one all the time. Well, I never changed my mind! And there were many reasons for choosing not to have children.
What is selfish of others is when they will ignore any genuine fertility issues and expect a woman to go ahead anyway. I had enough problems that as it turned out, had I tried, I would almost certainly have had frequent miscarriages, stillbirth and likely been very ill or died in childbirth.
I believe my body knew it was wrong for me to have children and that's at least some of why I didn't want them. But I didn't discover this until long after I had decided anyway and it just came up in the course of some health investigation I was doing...