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Wow, baking bread by the end of the week? You are a trooper, Dragon Lady. So, I take from your first response, that you are more inclined toward natural child birth? My husband and I had an... er... discussion... about this last night. I prefer the idea of a natural childbirth (in a midwiving center...

Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate hearing both the positive experiences of parenthood and some of the scary/frustrating stuff. Don't worry, Dragon Lady, I haven't been scared away from the idea yet. It's also nice getting feedback on things that I hadn't previously considere...

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The big cheese - I must have posted my response to 42 while you were writing too :) I actually am currently working and juggling my grad program (and the research that I have to do), so I'm kind of hoping that my balancing skills will get better...? Or at least not completely disappear. I'm counting...

42 - Thank you for adding your thoughts. I am very determined to finish my schooling, including getting my PhD - although that doesn't need to happen right away. My husband and I had a long talk about the timing issue last night, and we came to realize that our lives will never get less busy. I don'...

Krebscout - Thanks for the response. If you don't mind sharing, what were some of the unexpected difficulties? My husband and I are going to start trying and just hope for the best. My biggest concern is that I'm still in school, and I worry about juggling motherhood with classes (or at least being ...

This is a question to all board readers / writers with children - how did you know when you and your spouse were ready to start a family? My husband and I have been married for two and a half years, and we're starting to talk about it for the first time ever, and I guess the whole idea is freaking m...