When I Became A Mother Of Two

Heti and O’Connell appear to be speaking, at times, directly to one another. Two girls deciding whether to have a baby ― and having symmetric however completely divergent reactions to the query. It’s an uncomfortable conversation, which is maybe why we frequently favor to avoid having it. I didn’t want to think too onerous in regards to the alternative, the bodily trauma and perma-exhaustion I’d be avoiding if I stayed childless. It appeared like a call best made instinctively, at midnight.