Having a Baby Won’t Fix Your Childhood Trauma

We need to make sure we are having children for the right reasons.

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I don’t like to admit that part of the reason I wanted to become a mother was to fix my own childhood wounds. I had an idealised image of motherhood because I was determined to do everything right. I reasoned that if I gave my child all the things I was deprived of when I was…