This One Realization Made Me Ready For Motherhood
As soon as I introduced my now husband to my family, we were asked questions like “When is the wedding?” The reception hadn’t even ended before the next line of questioning set in with “When are you going to have babies?” Standing there in my bespoke champagne dress, I realized that the questions were never going to end. The lines of questioning would simply evolve. Shortly thereafter, I began asking a question of my own: “When does a woman feel prepared to become a mother?”
Being uncertain of one’s parental readiness can be a factor that delays women from becoming mothers. As women, not only do we have to compete with our biological clock, but we also have to listen to an inner monologue that can relentlessly spin tales that make us feel unworthy or unable to raise a child. Initially, some of it can stem from not feeling like an “adult.”