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I should have become pregnant sooner

Lady Speak

Today, I am eight months along in this journey called pregnancy. Carrying a pregnancy is a roller-coaster journey for a career woman. There are good and bad days.

On bad days, you wake up feeling like you cannot start the ignition let alone driving to work. You feel so bad, the only energy you have is to call your boss and ask for a day off.

As bad as you pregnancy may be, you cannot call in every day to ask for sick off. You will be fired.

But that said, I must say this journey is totally new to me much as I have been pregnant before. Tasha’s pregnancy was smoother and drama-free. Was it because I was unemployed and I had more time to focus on it?

This one is crazy. There are more demands and more pressure. I have an understanding boss who allows me flexitime - I come in a bit late and leave by 3pm.

But even so, there are days that the pressure becomes so much that I have to stay in a bit late to complete the work.

But what I am learning from all this experience as a career woman is that I should had children earlier. Actually I should not have waited for almost six years to get my second baby.

In retrospect, that gap is too huge. I was so used to my lifestyle, I had forgotten what pregnancy felt like. If I was to write a letter to my younger self, I would tell ‘me’ to get pregnant and finish this baby-rearing business by the time I am 30.

Then, I was more vibrant and I had free time in my hands. Right now I am so advanced in my career, doing pregnancy and work is crazy.

Like me, many career women like to postpone motherhood, until “I am settled in my career and have completed my masters degree.”

But looking back, I think we working mothers have our priorities twisted. Even though we are aware that a woman’s fertility declines significantly as she approaches 35, we still postpone childbearing up to when we are heading to 40.

This journey is quite lonely because most of my friends who are my age are done with this business and have moved on to other things. I feel a bit left out because while they are now doing sports days and other events, I am dreading the labour ward.

Truth be told, I should have done this when Tasha was two. I would now be focusing on other things. But anyway, let’s see how it shapes up.

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