Last weekend, my baby boy, Oryn, turned one. As I helped him blow out the candle on his first birthday cake, he beamed up at me and I felt a rush of pride and joy.It was followed immediately by the heart-stopping thought: ‘What if I hadn’t been brave enough to have you?’ That might be an odd thing for a young mum of 26 to say — after all, deciding to try for a baby is not an act of bravery per se.But, for me, having a child meant taking a huge leap of faith. Since my teens, I’ve lived with two — seemingly conflicting — certainties: one, that I desperately wanted to become a mother; and that I’m asexual.
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