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The Best-Laid Plans ...

November 17, 2006

I tend to be instantly hostile to any type of family planning that doesn't involve contraception, as I noted here. But even with contraception, accidents happen, as happened in our family a little over six years ago.

I guess my wife and I aren't alone:

The study, published in The Lancet, found a third of pregnancies ending in childbirth were not "clearly" intended.

One in 10 were totally unintended while a quarter of women were ambivalent about their intention to get pregnant.

Nice to know we fit right into a statistical pattern -- a third of the children born in our family were unintended.

These days, #3 is providing some of the best entertainment value. She's been telling us for more than a year that she's going to be a dentist when she grows up. Sometimes it's "a famous dentist," or "a dentist and a ballerina," but the DDS thing is pretty consistent.

She's also had a very consistent crush on a boy in her class, whom she's decided she's going to marry. (Not sure how he feels about it.) The boy is of Asian descent, and was adopted into a Jewish family, so the other day Annelise asked me if it was possible to marry someone who celebrates Hannukah while we celebrate Christmas. I told her it was fine, and that lots of people do it and make it work. I'm not sure if she believed me, but she did conclude that it might be feasible, as long as Hannukah and Christmas are on separate days.

The things a six-year-old worries about ...

Posted by LouSchuler at November 17, 2006 08:48 AM

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We had been planning a wedding, and later to have a child.. but never thought I'd get pregnant so soon. So I was at 4,5 months when we got married.

The reason for this comment is that we call him a surprise, not an accident.. seems more positive.. and he is absoluetly wonderful (24 years old now). Wasn't my invention.. The idea came from a fencer we knew whose parents always called her that.. a surprise, and she really loved it :)

Posted by: Marykaa at November 17, 2006 12:55 PM

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November 17, 2006

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