What I hated then - and hate now - is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn't ruin your life - having a child is a blessing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.
Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!
I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.
I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.