Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

And what happens when you have a lot more kids is you gain more confidence, you figure out what's necessary, what's not, and you learn to manage your time better as a mom with kids who are over the age of 10.

A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your family—you have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.