The crazy thing is that I didn’t see this regret coming back when I had the chance to give my son a sibling close in age. I planned to have more children at one time, but pregnancy nearly killed me, and my baby was born dangerously premature. He spent two months in the hospital battling respiratory failure and multiple infections. The whole experience was so traumatic that I was too intimidated to do it again. Like so many other Latinas in this country, I didn’t have any support during the exhausting infant and toddler years because my family doesn’t live nearby. The health risk, combined with the 24/7 exhaustion of caring for a baby, made the idea of having another seem impossible.
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