Is it the Right Time to Have a Baby?

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Is it the Right Time to Have a Baby?: Gabe is a step-mom to her husband's 11-year-old son, and she's wondering if she should have a baby of her own. - Dr. Laura: "Your step-son would not benefit having to compete with another child after losing his family." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Stay welcome to the program.
0:12.0	Hey, thanks for taking my call.
0:14.5	Hopefully you can give me a little insight today.
0:17.1	Thank you.
0:18.9	My main question is how do you know if it's right in your marriage to consider having a baby?
0:25.8	I don't have any children. I'm going to have to tell me what's going on in your specific situation.
0:31.4	Okay. I am 30 years old. I've been married for two years.
0:36.9	My husband is 41. He was married once before and he has an 11 year old son.
0:43.6	Is this the first time you've heard my program?
0:47.0	No, it's not.
0:49.1	Then you probably heard me say you never should have married him.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:55.3	Because all his time, effort, money, emotion, attention should be on the kid whose family
1:04.2	he and his prior wife destroyed.
1:08.5	All right.
1:10.1	So you married a guy with a kid who's 11 and you're thinking about having a baby going back and forth with that.
1:17.0	Let me explain something to you.
1:19.4	Let me take you and make you that 11 year old child.
1:25.7	So just stay with me as though this were some fantasy.
1:31.5	Okay.
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