Once in a while, usually in moments of work vs. family crisis, I
think it would have been smarter to have gotten pregnant at 18. I know,
I know. But think about it -- college subsidized daycare, something to
keep you home at night, grade school by the time you're ready to work
full time professionally.
Of course, the 20-year-old version of me would have, in no way, been a
suitable mother. I'm thinking a mix of Britney and Denise Richards with
the McCanns thrown
in for high drama. But, you know, logistics. I’m talking logistics.
Becoming a mother in my early 30s instead, with few daycare options,
long commutes, lots of overnight travel, forced me to make some career
compromises. Yet, had I waited, who knows how well my ovaries would
have held up.
Shouldn’t there be a way to calculate all this? Well … there is! Kind of.
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