The day that We were in no way thinking about having another child, but I’d be lying if I said that I was positive that we were done. I can’t say what exactly changed that, but one day a few weeks ago I was driving along thinking about this and that, and suddenly I realized that our family really feels complete to me now. It honestly was that sort of instant clarity. Since then I’ve packed up and sent to the charity shop all of my maternity clothes and a not insignificant number of baby clothes, all without a hint of hesitation or regret. I’m just done with the baby-havin’ and it feels good.<\/p>\n There is one thing that makes me a little sad, and that’s knowing that I’ll never have a little boy to name Håkan. It must be said, however, that I know at least a couple of people out there are secretly delighted that I won’t have the opportunity to name more babies. There’s just no telling where I’d stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day that my mother some may have feared would never come has arrived: the baby factory is closed. I got a hormonal IUD put in this morning, and if everything they say is true, I shouldn’t have to think about birth control again for another five years. This is very good news, as I… Read More Five is enough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}my mother<\/strike> some may have feared would never come has arrived: the baby factory is closed. I got a hormonal IUD<\/a> put in this morning, and if everything they say is true, I shouldn’t have to think about birth control again for another five years. This is very good news, as I think it’s been quite definitively established that we’re not good at birth control.<\/p>\n