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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a mom of older kids, I'm confused why everyone things the pandemic told them something new. Yes the pandemic sucked but we weren't supported before the pandemic either. [/quote]

Yes, thank you, I was coming to post this. All of these things were issues before the pandemic and they are issues after.

I'm not sure why everyone blames the pandemic for everything that's wrong with life. [/quote]

Is "everyone" blaming the pandemic for "everything" that is wrong with life? Is that something people are doing in this thread? Examples please.[/quote]

I'm not discounting that Covid was hard. It was, and it was harder for some than others. But raising kids and balancing family needs vs work etc was always hard pre Covid and continued to be hard today. So it's hard to tease out what was caused by Covid and what is just caused by life. And now Covid shutdown was a few years in the past, I think it's time to really start examining factors other than Covid if people are currently suffering. [/quote]

Covid pushed back my special needs child’s diagnosis for several years. He struggled during the pandemic, so everyone told me it was the pandemic. We had to do YEARS of therapy to prove to people that he had autism. Meanwhile, everyone else was trying to get therapy, making wait lists ridiculous. We had to pay for all that therapy ourselves. If he’d been diagnosed earlier, it would have been free. That’s thousands of dollars down the drain. Stress. Advocating for him. Research.

Again, just because your life is back to normal, but everybody else is.

And whoever is gaslighting that lady who had to wait six months to take out her IUD can go straight to hell. That’s the most infuriating post I’ve had the displeasure I’d reading in this site. [/quote]

I might have missed the IUD women but I posted above that my child had several preschool classmates who had a new sibling in the past few years.

I remember my friend who was almost 40 and childless was so upset because she couldn’t start IVF because of Covid. She ended up getting pregnant in 2021 and having a baby in 2022. She had another one recently in 2023 at age 43.

We have encountered lots of families with just one child. Some don’t want to do fertility treatments. Some are happy with one. I feel like the ones who really want more children get them. One mom I knew had cancer and tried to retrieve her eggs. She eventually adopted.

I can’t tell if OP never tried to have more kids and regrets not trying or if she tried and couldn’t have more kids. It sounds like she felt it was too late after Covid. The older moms who knew they wanted multiple usually have kids right away or at least try to. My friends who had kids after 35 seem to often have kids close together. I have several friends who had kids at like age 38, 39 and 41 or 36, 38, 40.[/quote]

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