Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have

about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and

self-confidence. About our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute

full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun would be navigated together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So guys, I am really, really, really, really, really,

really, really excited about today's episode. Today we're talking all about how to figure out if

you're ready to have kids. Now this topic is incredibly important to me because deciding that we

were ready to start trying to have kids is one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. Now maybe

you are a woman who has always seen yourself being a mom and you have no doubt in your mind about

that. But I know that there are also women on the other side of that spectrum, like me who are

dealing with so many doubts and fears and questions about the whole thing. To talk us through some

of these questions, I have invited my very best friend Kelsey Bennett onto the show. Kelsey is my

go-to person for pretty much every question I have about anything in life, but definitely my

questions about parenting and kids. Kelsey's actually the one who walked with me through this whole

journey of figuring out if and when we were ready to have kids and I am so thrilled to get to share

her wisdom with you today too. Now just ahead that we actually had so much to say on the topic

that we decided to split this into two episodes. Today in part one, we're going to be talking through

questions like, does everyone want to have kids and are we supposed to want to have kids?

How do we go about having the conversation with our significant other about kids in the first

place and then also the timing? What if you find yourself having way more doubts and fears

in actual longing? Is that normal and so much more? And then in part two, we're going to talk about

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