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One and Done

07/10/20

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One of the topics that comes up constantly among my new-Mom friends is when everyone is going to start trying for Baby #2. For many people, having more than one child is a given. So much so, in fact, that when I tell people we’re finished having children they say things like, “it’s too soon to know” or “you may still change your mind.”

After three years of infertility, a difficult pregnancy both physically and emotionally and a pre-term birth followed by 18 long days in the NICU, David and I are certain that our family is complete. We’ve even made the difficult – and likely somewhat controversial – decision to discard our remaining embryos.

While our intentions are clear and I’ve openly shared them, I can’t help but notice that for those of us who choose to have one child or no children, there’s a lot of societal pressure to have multiple children.

I get it. For the longest time I assumed I would have the 2.33 children typical of the standard American family and I definitely felt a certain push to do it more so than a strong personal desire – as if it were an expectation.

I’ve shared before that children weren’t always part of the plan for us when we got married. However, given what we went through to get Valentina here healthy and safe, there’s no doubt in our minds that we don’t want to take those same risks again.

Even so, we feel complete as a family of three. Children are a lot of work and require complete sacrifice (even more so in a pandemic) none of which we were ready for before now. We waited to start our family and the timing was perfect for us but that means we’ll forever be a family of three.

How about you? Are you team one and done or team the more the merrier?

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As a new mom, I quickly discovered that there's a As a new mom, I quickly discovered that there's a lot of focus on "bouncing back" into exercise, work and intimacy and many of the moms who had babies at the same time as me seemed to be doing it a lot faster than I was. Because nobody ever told me it could take up to a year (or longer) to feel like myself again, I often wondered what was wrong with me. 

On my blog (link in profile or MarissaVicario.com/blog), I published an honest account of what my first year postpartum was actually like as I learned to navigate a new body with a new purpose, a baby that refused to sleep and of course, a pandemic. 

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Valentina poked me in the eye on Saturday morning and by that night I couldn't open my eye. And because I couldn't open the injured eye, I couldn't open the other eye. 

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I joked to one of my friends that I finally got the mommy break I needed - just not the one I wanted! I also caught up on all my missed sleep for the year! 

But in all seriousness, with everything going on in the news I knew I needed the social media/tech break, I just wasn't taking it. I'm a firm believer that the Universe does for us that which we can't do for ourselves. This has always been true for me that when I most need a break, I'm forced to take one through Illness or injury. 

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