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		<title>Maybe Baby, Take Two: Can We Afford to Try? Can We Afford Not To?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the birth of our niece in October, Navdeep and I had the chat. You know the one. Should we be trying to conceive? After all, I’m 32. And he’s 30. We’re not getting any younger.

I know what you’re thinking. There’s never a perfect time. But is it the right time for us? That’s what we have to decide. Given the economy – I know, that’s our excuse for everything – and the fact that we’re just settling in to life together on the same coast, in the same state, in the same city, we’d like to give ourselves a bit of time. You know how it goes, that little to-do list before you settle down to the business of being adults. Like our trip to Greece. Or finishing my novel. Or even just playing house for a little while longer, just the two of us.

Still, when I see my friends with their newborns or even two-year-olds with sticky hands, I can’t help but hope that it will be our turn soon. Even at six-months-old, my niece is such a charmer, her own little person with a very distinct personality. Wouldn’t it be so neat to have a little person that was part me and part Navdeep, with his soft curls and those big dark eyes?

Then again, babies are a lot of work. And perhaps now, when I’m adapting to working from home and being my own boss, it’s not the right time to add that kind of challenge to our lifestyle. Then there’s the money question. ]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe Baby? In Response to that Ticking Clock</title>
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I should have known when I hit 30 that it would start. In fact, given that my own mother handed me that scary New York magazine cover story about freezing your eggs—you know, just in case — I should have expected it a lot sooner.

Still, considering the place that Navdeep and I are in at this moment in time, the floaty, fleeting nature of both our careers, trying to establish ourselves as writers and get published, and even just trying to figure out which coast to live on, I was hardly ready for it.

No, I’m not pregnant. But it seems like everyone around me has babies on the brain. Navdeep may not have noticed it, but while we were traveling in India, meeting new relatives, the question came up a lot. We’ve been married for about a year-and-a-half now, and by Indian standards, that’s plenty of alone time. People just didn’t seem to grasp what we’re waiting for.

Sometimes I wonder, too. After all, the proverbial clock is ticking away. And you always hear people say that there will never be a right time. But there is a such thing as a very wrong time, isn’t there? 

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