Posted by Alexis at 03:16 PM, March 29, 2004
am I young?
I have been feeling like i am a really young pregnant person.. at 26 I don't think that is really young.. at present I know some other pregnant ladies and they are aged between 35 and 37 ... ten more years on me.. one of those ladies is up to her third child, so i guess that makes it better but the other 2 are first time mums.. people seem to be waiting later and later now to have kiddies.. I don't think I would like it.. if you want a career the earlier you have kids the earlier you can get back to it and have more time later on.. hhmm did that make sense? not sure.. i guess it makes it harder if you are just starting out in your career you don't have as much combined income to pay for the kids than if you waited a few more years.. that would be an advantage.. I can't imagine I will be one of those mums that goes back to work after 6 weeks..
When I was in high school i did some work experience at a child care centre, the kids were dropped off from 6 am.. SIX AM!!! they would hvae still been asleep and dragged out of bed, shoved in the car and then plonked off at the centre, they could be picked up till 7 pm .. so some kids were spending more that hals the day at the child care centre... I bet once they got home they didn't do much more than eat and sleep.. you wouldn't even know who your parents were... amazingingly there were babies form 6 weeks of age all the way up to toddlers and then there was a kinder section.. so some kids had been coming to this place for years.. i don't think I could trust strangers to look after my child for such long periods of time.. you would be missing out on so much..
but you never knwo I might change my mind and want to go back to work after a few months.. anything can happen.. i wonder if I can work part time.. not sure.. do I want to ? not sure either.. so many options.. you hear stories of mothers that can;t stand being at home looking after a child and need to go back to work and then there are others that could possiblyimagine leaving their child for even an hour.. so i guess there are all extremes..
so many choices and options and decisions.. like wha t colour shall we paint the baby room and how shall we clean it all out.. the tupperware room is going to have to adapt.. might have to build a garage to fit everything in..