Emma Grede

And I think he has a bunch of stuff that he doesn't think about because I take care of those.

But never ever has there been the assumption that the kids are my responsibility.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I have.

All of the bits of the path.

You know, it's so interesting because...

You know, and I always want to be sensitive about this conversation because I think that for so many women for so long, we were kind of sold this story that like we should wait and you should put your career first.

And I want to say and I'm never a person that likes to apologize for what I'm saying before I'm about to say there are many, many women.

who have no interest in having children.

And that is completely fine, and I am not speaking to them.

But for the large majority, and it is a majority, who think about having kids at one point in their life, what we've been told and sold is really contradictory.

And there is no right time to have a baby, but there is a biological reality.

I'm certainly not advocating for teen pregnancy, but maybe waiting until you're 38 isn't the best thing to do.

And when we talk about ambition and careers, we cannot not have the baby conversation because it doesn't serve us.

And so when I wrote this book, I was like, I am going to be honest about my own journey because I was so lucky to have two children.

Naturally, my 12 and my nine year old, you know, I...

Did it the old fashioned way.

And I thought that it would completely be my choice to decide when and if I had a third or a fourth.

And when I tried, it just never worked.

And just like most people, you know, the doctor says, you just wait a year and see what's happening.