#7: Choosing What’s Best

And fighting my own anxieties about child rearing as someone of child-rearing age

Only recently have I begun to imagine parenthood in all of its details, and these details—postpartum depression, for example, or baby-led weaning—have become the foundation for my hypothesizing about, and preparing for, a future in which I am a mother. This is, of course, a thought experiment not based in reality; I am neither pregnant nor in the proces…