A mother is a source of knowledge and love, embodying various roles, from a nurturer to a protester. Her life includes challenges, such as difficulties with endometriosis and navigating systemic racism in maternal health. She provides insights into motherhood, rejecting societal pressures and highlighting the reality of raising children. The mother approached the topic of having children without adhering to romantic notions, emphasizing that babies are not possessions or expectations, which profoundly impacts her child's understanding of motherhood and personal choices.
I have asked her many times why she decided to have children. I couldn't figure out why somebody who had such a full life would want to risk changing it for anything.
Becoming an older, black mother sounded even harder, with the risks associated with so-called geriatric pregnancies and systemic racism within maternal health settings.
Everyone has this magical idea of a baby. But those babies don't stay babies. By this, I understood that she never felt any pressure to have children.
Not anyone else's, she told me. And then she went on: Everyone has this magical idea of a baby.
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