Sharing today on when I realized I wanted kids, thanks to a good friend. We now have 8 children between us!

Also, I get into:

•female friendship

•not leaving our families and places of origin

•being the first of the friend group to have a baby

•why evidence and research on the declining birth rate doesn’t speak to young women the way conviviality, camaraderie and tenderness do

•if lack of exposure to babies perhaps is contributing to the mental health issues teenage girls have

•why postpartum sleepovers with friends who don’t have babies yet are a great idea!