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1. How old are you? 22.
2. How old is/are your child/children? (for the pregnant, use the number of months/weeks left to go) I'm 34 weeks pregnant, 6 more to go.
3. Boy/Girl? Girl. Laurelai.
4. Did you always want children, and were your children planned? No. I never wanted children. She was not planned, she was the result of my ex-boyfriend & I rebounding with each other. It was a terrible two months, and it wouldn't have lasted, even if he hadn't ended up back in jail.
5. Do you ever wish your experiences of parenthood were different? Why? My father left my mother and I when I was about two years old, and then my mother died when I was eight. I was raised mostly by my alcoholic grandmother. As it turns out, my father and I are best friends today & my mother is my ideal role model as far as what a mother should be (save for the shooting heroin, you know). So, no, not really.
6. What do you think your children will be like as adults/older children? I've no idea. I know that I ended up turning out exactly like my mother, but she died early on, so it could have been some kind of subconsciously-perpetrated thing.
7. Name three things you wish for your children.
a. Courage.
b. Security.
c. Health.
8. Which attributes have your children taken from each parent/family member? She's not been born yet.
9. Did your experience differ from what you expected? How so? I didn't expect to have children. I didn't expect to keep this one. I definitely didn't expect to be as excited about it as I am, or to be as fulfilled emotionally, or to have let the experience change me in the most necessary of ways.
10. Do you want more children? Not for awhile. Not until this theoretical child has two (or three, or four) adult parents that love each other very much.
2. How old is/are your child/children? (for the pregnant, use the number of months/weeks left to go) I'm 34 weeks pregnant, 6 more to go.
3. Boy/Girl? Girl. Laurelai.
4. Did you always want children, and were your children planned? No. I never wanted children. She was not planned, she was the result of my ex-boyfriend & I rebounding with each other. It was a terrible two months, and it wouldn't have lasted, even if he hadn't ended up back in jail.
5. Do you ever wish your experiences of parenthood were different? Why? My father left my mother and I when I was about two years old, and then my mother died when I was eight. I was raised mostly by my alcoholic grandmother. As it turns out, my father and I are best friends today & my mother is my ideal role model as far as what a mother should be (save for the shooting heroin, you know). So, no, not really.
6. What do you think your children will be like as adults/older children? I've no idea. I know that I ended up turning out exactly like my mother, but she died early on, so it could have been some kind of subconsciously-perpetrated thing.
7. Name three things you wish for your children.
a. Courage.
b. Security.
c. Health.
8. Which attributes have your children taken from each parent/family member? She's not been born yet.
9. Did your experience differ from what you expected? How so? I didn't expect to have children. I didn't expect to keep this one. I definitely didn't expect to be as excited about it as I am, or to be as fulfilled emotionally, or to have let the experience change me in the most necessary of ways.
10. Do you want more children? Not for awhile. Not until this theoretical child has two (or three, or four) adult parents that love each other very much.
