Now that Lil E's third birthday is quickly approaching and nearly every
woman I know is pregnant or swaddling a brand new baby, the question
about whether we are having more children has been coming up more and
more often. We are in those limbo years between Oh My God! Another Baby? Already? Two in Diapers? Already? and If You're Going to Have More, You'd Better Get On It, Sister. My
womb has sufficiently healed (See? I'm not as bitter as some folks
think!) and I'm over a year out from weaning. And while my body's been
doing all this recovering, so has my career. I am left with a strange
and confusing combination of ovaries doing little flips when I see
those new babies and a career swelling, filling me up and easing the
financial worries we've had since the prenatal bills started rolling
in. So what to do? Just go for it or just give it more time? And can I
keep up with all my jobs with a new baby in a sling and a toddler
wailing all the way to daycare?
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