When I was 23 and married to my (now) ex-husband, I told my mom I was thinking about starting a family but expressed concern about it being the right time, having enough money, ect. And you know what she said? "There's never going to be a right time or enough money for a baby."

She meant that to be encouraging, but looking back I'm a little appalled at that mindset. My own mother was actively pushing me toward trying for a baby when I had NO business even giving it a thought at that time. We'd only been married a year at that point and were still hopelessly immature, had no savings to speak of and lived paycheck to paycheck, were renting our house, neither of us had any plan for the future...and she was basically like, "just have a kid, it'll be fine!"

It also makes me realize that a LOT of people go into parenthood with that way of thinking...which is CRAZY to me. I mean, you wouldn't just willy-nilly jump out of an airplane without doing all of the safety checks for your parachute thinking, "whatever, I'm sure it'll work out". I don't think we're too practical and logical. I think the majority of people take creating another human WAY too lightly.