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One life to me, my time, while I...

You have a chapter on women deciding whether or not to have another baby.

How have you helped women figure out how to decide how many more kids to have or not

have?

I think it was getting clear on what was causing me to be so back and forth with my decision

and it all came down to fear, fear of making the wrong choice, fear of regrets or

fear of the wrong choice.

Also believing that somehow by having more kids, you might find some kind of fulfillment.

I think with my decision for the fifth child that we never had, but I was struggling with

so much with the back and forth thinking like, I made the wrong choice, I should have more

kids, I should have more faith that God would help me and then finally deciding, okay,

I'm going to do it, I'm going to try to have another one.

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