immediately. So not everyone has that issue! (Back on the pill now but hoping to be in your shoes in, ehh, five more years? Tick tock!) I'm very much on the fence about having babies. Some days being a mom seems appealing, but most days it scares the hell out of me. My boyfriend and I both have anxiety issues that we're dealing with; throw in something as stressful as a baby, and I'm worried that one or both of us is going to regress or worse, pass on those issues on to the baby. When I bring it up to people and they say "oh, you'd be a good mom, you're nice and you're worried about being a good mom, so you'll be a good one," it almost makes me want to yell in their face. Anxiety and mood disorders can get in the way of your normal thinking and behaviour, making you behave in irrational, sometimes even mean ways while you're very aware that you're being irrational and mean when you don't want to be like that. I don't like the thought of putting a kid through that, especially since there is evidence that your ability to cope with stress is partly genetic. That's not even taking into account that we really can't afford to take care of anything more demanding that, say, a dog. Honestly, once I'm done school, a small condo (read: small two bedroom apartment that got re-labelled "condo") is all we're going to be