• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sounds like the mother might have postpartum depression. I’ve had similar thoughts too, and I also suffer from depression.

    With my first born I was fine, and enjoyed pretty much the whole experience (colic notwithstanding). But with my second born, it took me a while to feel good about having a second child. Turns out that is natural, but it never hurts to talk to someone about it.

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    7 months ago

    Of all the things to regret or be concerned about children, mortality is the big one for her? Strange.

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    7 months ago

    Not everyone who lives hates their life. It’s fine to have children, if you do your best to take care of them. It’s also fine to not have children. You do you.

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      7 months ago

      Immortality isn’t the other option they want, they would rather the child never existed in the first place. Agreed, immortality is a bad option, but so is mortality. Oblivion/nonexistence is preferably to both.

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      7 months ago

      I wouldn’t either. I would rather they weren’t born in the first place, since either dying or living forever are both bad options.