Sometimes bodies, in the heat of a moment, make a choice while the prefrontal cortex, lulled by arousal, is too tranquil to protest. Sometimes conception happens kind-of-on-purpose, as in, let's try just this once and see what happens. Sometimes conception happens by accident: a condom breaks, an IUD fails. Often, for better for worse, straight couples just go ahead and have kids. Sometimes they take months or even years to lay plans and reconsider, to toss around ideas about how to pay for daycare, where the crib should go and who will change the diapers. Sometimes straight people have exhaustive discussions about whether or not they want to become parents. If we'd been a heterosexual couple, chances are it might have. We had married each other anyway, certain the issue would work itself out. I had always known I had wanted to be a parent. I was 28 and newly married when I first started talking to my partner, Kellie, about having a child.
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