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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wish I had gone for the emergency C section and not the forceps that the OB recommended (which wrecked my pelvic floor).

Wish I had formula fed from day one and forced my husband to do night feedings instead of night nursing for years.

Wished I had weaned my kids at one year instead of letting the nursing go on forever because of pressure from my husband when the kids cried or demanded nursing to just feed them because he could not be bothered to deal with them.

Wished I never tried for natural birth and just had scheduled C sections.

Wish I had married someone else who was open to counseling and therapy and wasn’t so secretly sexist when it comes to parenting issues because all the weaknesses in my marriage have been worsened with kids and it turns out that my progressive partner who I thought was a feminist and would be a good person to raise kids with actually us an authoritarian dad with unrealistic expectations of kids, anger issues, and he constantly expects me to the the primary parent.

I wish I had known that it’d be almost impossible to have an equal partnership in a heterosexual relationship once kids enter the picture because there is so much ingrained sexism that men are raised with and you don’t always realize it until kids show up. [/quote]

I could have said the same things except for the forceps, C sections & natural births part.[/quote]

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