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Help Me Be Me

Audience Q&A’s: On the Fence About Having Kids (part 2)

Help Me Be Me

Cloud10

Health & Fitness

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is an episode that answers questions from the audience about fears around having kids, and since I am about to give birth to my second child, I thought it timely! It's a followup to an episode I did a few years back on the same topic. The questions I answer are as follows: 1. I love my life now, I’m afraid of not being able to do what I want when I want to do it. I’m also afraid of another being depending so critically on me. How do I know if I should have kids? 2. How will my anxiety be when I’m a parent? 3. What is it like to never have a break? How do you adjust and get through? 4. What joys of parenting have you found ground you? 5. What are the normal highs and lows and how do you ride them? For anyone new listening to this show, I am a regular person who has lived through a lot of random difficult shit and come out the other end pretty happy, high functioning, with healthy relationships. I am not a therapist or a scholar! So take what helps and leave the rest. A couple of books on this subject (and for once you have a baby) that I recommend are here: https://amzn.to/2yngOfy https://amzn.to/2LV5IBv https://amzn.to/2Zr4fLf https://amzn.to/2XinR1D - - - - - This show is brought to you by our latest sponsor: Better Help – licensed therapists you can see from the privacy of your couch! If you are interested in trying out therapy(at a lower cost), and you want to support this show, visit TryBetterHelp.com/HelpMeBeMe for 10% off your first month of care. xo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0

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1:07.0

Hi friends it's Sarah May and this is an audience Q&A episode about whether or not to have a baby

1:20.1

Part 2 so obviously this is for a very select group of people.

1:25.0

But it's a question I've gotten a couple times and

1:30.0

it's timely for me in particular because I happen to be eight months pregnant so with my second child

1:38.3

So I thought why not answer them to the

1:45.0

them to the best of my ability and I would say this is definitely not

1:49.6

obviously not an episode for everybody.

2:04.8

Just a heads up, this is based on if you have disability benefits that allow you period of time.

2:06.0

So my personal experience of having a baby meant I had a couple of months to actually hang out with that baby and I was home with it.

2:15.8

So keep that in mind.

2:17.4

If you are in a situation where you do not have disability benefits and you cannot stay home, then I think, you know, that's a very, very

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