For our second season, we begin by looking back at the “before times,” when our mental calculus was not focused on decisions around indoor gatherings, masks, vaccinations, and remote vs. in-person working — and instead on whether or not we wanted to have children. We discuss what factors led to us deciding to try for children, what our worries, fears, and concerns were, and reckon with the moments when we realized how much we ourselves devalued the labor of child rearing, and why.
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