Kids Or No Kids? Sharing My Choice And ALL The Reasons Behind It

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The most personal pros & cons of having kids episode yet: mine and Zack’s! Realistically, how do you go about making a decision that you know will change your life? Zack and I walk through our decision on whether or not we will be having children and all of the research, data, and conversations with experts and friends that went into it. Lots of factors play into the decision to have children, from work-life balance to financial strain, not to mention concerns about whether you would enjoy parenting itself in practice. Ultimately, while data and research can help us make informed decisions, they cannot make our decisions for us. We had to make this decision for ourselves knowing that there is no true wrong or right choice. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. Listen to the previous Pros & Cons of Having Kids episodes: The Pros & Cons Of Having Kids The 2nd Pros & Cons Of Having Kids Episode: Pooping During Labor, The Real Cost + Sex & Body Image After Birth How To Know If You Should Have Kid(s) + Debunking Myths About Parenthood with Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LISCW What It’s REALLY Like To Be Childfree By Choice with Ruby Warrington & Vanessa and Xander Marin All The Fertility Qs You’re Too Nervous To Ask: Answered A Raw, Honest Story About IVF, Surrogacy, & Having A Rainbow Baby This episode is sponsored by: Puori: go to puori.com/LIZMOODY and use promo code LIZMOODY for 20% sitewide. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 312. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. I have been debating whether or not I want to have kids for years.
0:08.0	And I have done many, many episodes about the subject, which I know you guys love.
0:12.8	We have tons of personal stories from child free by choice people, people who always knew they wanted kids, people who have struggled with fertility and approached parenthood in
0:21.0	different ways. And even a therapist who helps people make this choice, I will link all of those
0:26.8	episodes in the show notes. Today, finally, I am joined by my husband, Zach, who shared the
0:32.6	decision that we have reached in our own life. We did not fall into either of the camps where we definitely
0:38.6	knew that we wanted kids or we definitely knew that we didn't. We were firmly undecided until very
0:44.2	recently. So we're going to get into all of the things that we consider, the pros and cons that
0:49.3	we weighed and the decision that we ultimately made. Hey. I'm excited.
0:55.7	It's so interesting because I have thought about it a lot.
0:59.9	Yeah, you've been doing these episodes now.
1:02.5	Since we lived in New York.
1:03.8	For a couple, for three years maybe?
1:06.1	Yeah, maybe longer.
1:07.3	I mean, when did we leave New York?
1:09.2	2020, it's 2025.
1:10.5	Now, is that when the first one came out?
1:11.7	The first one, I recorded the first one in our New York apartment.
1:14.0	So that would have been either very early 2020 or late 2019, the teens.
1:19.1	Yeah.
1:19.6	So that's crazy.
1:20.6	We've been talking about it forever on the podcast because it's a decision that I did not know my answer on.
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