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Not Having Kids Research Paper

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My mom has constantly shared snippets of stories from her past with me, so I have been given a glimpse into what her life was like before she had me. I have constantly been intrigued by the stories that she has told me, so when this project was assigned I wanted to learn about what she considers her hero’s journey to be. Before talking to her, I would not have imagined that she considers her hero’s journey to be having my sister and me.
It wasn’t until my mom was in her early thirties that she even considered having kids. Before then, she had gone through her life with the idea of not having kids at all. That changed when a few of her friends started having children. At first, it didn’t prompt any emotion or feeling out of her until more and more of them started becoming pregnant. ”That triggered something in me, like, I don’t know, primal, and I wanted to have kids. I knew I wanted to have kids. I don’t know that I wanted to have multiple kids… but I knew I wanted to have a child.” …show more content…

It didn’t take long for my mom to become pregnant, only two months, but at first, she didn’t know it was happening. “I was having horrible stomach cramps, really terrible stomach pains for gosh, two weeks, really I didn’t feel well. And finally I just couldn’t take it anymore, my stomach hurt so bad. A Friday night in the Emergency room sounded like such a bad idea, but sure enough, I went and I had an ectopic pregnancy.” When the doctors had first asked her if she was pregnant, she had been sure that she wasn’t, but after a series of tests they determined that a) she was pregnant, and b) she needed emergency

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