The day my pregnancy test read positive, I cried. They were not tears of joy. While this was a planned pregnancy, I was terrified.
Although I had never pictured myself with kids, when my husband and I were dating, we decided to have a family.
But I was scared. Not of pregnancy and labour, although they were pretty unpleasant. I was afraid of the transformational, irrevocable life change everyone kept talking about. I was in my mid-thirties, well into my professional career and personal development. I wasn’t interested in being totally “transformed”.