Caroline O'Donoghue: 'Thirty might sound like a bit late for motherhood to be first occurring to me'

Maybe in a few years I’ll take a box of old newspaper clippings down from the attic, and show them to my small friend, and say this — this was the day I changed my mind.

I’m hitting a lot of milestones at the moment. Today is the six-year anniversary of me and my boyfriend’s first kiss. Next week will be my 30th birthday. And tomorrow, it will have been two weeks since it first occurred to me to consider having a baby.

1. Thirty might sound like a bit late for motherhood to be “first occurring” to me.