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Top 5 reasons to be pregnant during a recession
I am expecting Baby No. 2 this fall. Now that I’m well into my second trimester, you’ll be hearing from me on a variety of issues – from medical tests to preparing older brother for the baby.
I must admit that, at first, I almost felt like I needed to explain why my husband and I chose to have a baby in this economy. But that’s nonsense. A baby is a blessing at any time. And think of all the other potential benefits…
Top 5 reasons a recession is as good a time as any to be pregnant:
-- Forget your credit card bills for a moment. This is one “due date” that you can actually look forward to.
-- Keep the family together. Rather than focus on your plunging home value, you can instead fantasize about your little one actually being able to afford a home near you one day.
-- Help stimulate the economy. Just think about what millions of moms buying loads of diapers, baby products, cans of formula could do to help bring the economy out of this slump.
-- A sense of accomplishment. Layoffs are a fact of life these days, but having a baby is a lifelong project you can help guide well into old age, if you’re lucky.
-- No one can tell the difference between whether you are overeating because of stress or simply “eating for two.”
Gretchen Day-Bryant has a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. She’s lived to tell about the struggles of juggling little kids and work...
Joy Oglesby has an infant daughter and a sister 13 years her junior, whom she babies to the now-adult...
Cindy Kent Fort Lauderdale mother of three. Her kids span in ages from teenager to 20s...
Rafael Olmeda and his wife welcomed their first son in Feb. 2009, and he's helping raise two teenage stepdaughters...
Lois Solomon lives in Boca Raton with her husband and three daughters...
Anne Vasquez is the Online Editor in charge of overseeing SunSentinel.com. She is the mother of a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.
Georgia East is the parent of a five-year-old girl, who came into the world weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces...
Brittany Wallman is the mother of Creed, 13, and Lily, 6, and is married...
Chris Tiedje is the Social Media Coordinator, and father of two boys and a girl all under the age of seven.
Comments
Congratulations!
Posted by: Lisa from Moms at work | May 4, 2009 6:32 PM
Thanks, Lisa!
Posted by: Anne Vasquez | May 5, 2009 12:49 AM
Come on, are you seriously advocating buying formula to stimulate the economy? If anything, breastfeeding helps the economy. Do you know how much formula feeding costs us as a nation every year? Nearly $600 million via the WIC program alone, not to mention hospitalization and other medical costs for formula-fed babies.
Posted by: Elita | May 5, 2009 8:31 AM
Did you seriously just advocate formula feeding as a way to stimulate the economy? I hope you were being facetious, as formula feeding actually costs us millions as a nation every year. The US government spends nearly $600 million on formula via the WIC program alone. Formula fed babies also cost all of us in terms of medical costs, including hospitalization, doctor visits and medication because they are sick more often that breastfed babies. If you want to help the economy, you should be breastfeeding.
Posted by: Elita | May 5, 2009 8:34 AM
Thanks for your comment, Elita. This was intended to be a lighthearted list. Of course, you don't need to come up with a list to justify having a baby.
In the defense of moms who opt to formula feed: Not everyone is able to successfully breastfeed, so formula plays an integral role in our society, like it or not.
Posted by: anne | May 5, 2009 9:40 AM