A woman has revealed her pregnancy non-negotiables - including a babymoon, £1k push present and personal trainer to get back in shape.
Single Nora Talal, 26, says she'd refuse to have a baby with someone who couldn't keep up with her demands.
Nora says she wouldn't work from maternity to nursery age and wants to go on a luxury babymoon - a holiday before the baby arrives - with her partner to relax and be in the right frame of mind to give birth.
Nora says she would like a push present from her partner - to the value of at least £1k and suggest a designer handbag or a pair of shoes.
She would demand a private room for her post-pregnancy care in a hospital and wants to own a three-bed house in London and surrounding counties, to bring her baby home to.
Nora would like to attend all baby classes with her partner, for him to abstain in whatever she can't do or whatever makes her sick while expecting and for him to pay for her post-pregnancy personal trainer and meal-subscription service so she can get back in shape.
She says she "probably wouldn't consider" a partner who couldn't give her what she wants, but some says things are negotiable.
Nora, a tech sales worker, from West Hampstead, London, who hasn't had any children yet, said: "I think I just set standards for my life that I live by.
"I've worked my whole life and got used to having a certain lifestyle I guess.
"Everything I'm demanding I can provide for myself, but why should I compromise the standard I've set myself just because I've had a baby and I'm not going back to work immediately?
"I shared my thoughts online and I've had mixed responses.
"The majority of negatives often come from men and I guess it might have irked people the wrong way.
"In their words, it's demanding. I'm single and that's been a point they like to pick on, they say that it's for a reason.
"I stand by my decisions.
"I get a lot of people saying I'm delusional and a lot of people think it's satire. It's genuinely my opinion."
Nora said she has always wanted to be married and at least 30 before having children.
She said: "I would quite like to enjoy being married before I have a child.
"I'm not saying having kids ruins your life, but things change and you're going to be restricted with the pressures of kids."
While she hopes to one day return to work, Nora would like to be employment-free from maternity to nursery age.
She said: "Ideally I'd probably want to go into a role that works around child hours.
"Even if I could do what I'm doing now with more flexibility.
"It would be nice for my husband to have paternity as well but I think for me I would need to have from maternity leave to nursery years off."
Nora would also like to have her own babymoon before the arrival of her little one.
She said: "The idea is you know you're pregnant and when it's advisable you can travel then you go on holiday.
"It's for you and your partner to spend time together before you become a family.
Single Nora Talal, 26, says she'd refuse to have a baby with someone who couldn't keep up with her demands.
Nora says she wouldn't work from maternity to nursery age and wants to go on a luxury babymoon - a holiday before the baby arrives - with her partner to relax and be in the right frame of mind to give birth.
Nora says she would like a push present from her partner - to the value of at least £1k and suggest a designer handbag or a pair of shoes.
She would demand a private room for her post-pregnancy care in a hospital and wants to own a three-bed house in London and surrounding counties, to bring her baby home to.
Nora would like to attend all baby classes with her partner, for him to abstain in whatever she can't do or whatever makes her sick while expecting and for him to pay for her post-pregnancy personal trainer and meal-subscription service so she can get back in shape.
She says she "probably wouldn't consider" a partner who couldn't give her what she wants, but some says things are negotiable.
Nora, a tech sales worker, from West Hampstead, London, who hasn't had any children yet, said: "I think I just set standards for my life that I live by.
"I've worked my whole life and got used to having a certain lifestyle I guess.
"Everything I'm demanding I can provide for myself, but why should I compromise the standard I've set myself just because I've had a baby and I'm not going back to work immediately?
"I shared my thoughts online and I've had mixed responses.
"The majority of negatives often come from men and I guess it might have irked people the wrong way.
"In their words, it's demanding. I'm single and that's been a point they like to pick on, they say that it's for a reason.
"I stand by my decisions.
"I get a lot of people saying I'm delusional and a lot of people think it's satire. It's genuinely my opinion."
Nora said she has always wanted to be married and at least 30 before having children.
She said: "I would quite like to enjoy being married before I have a child.
"I'm not saying having kids ruins your life, but things change and you're going to be restricted with the pressures of kids."
While she hopes to one day return to work, Nora would like to be employment-free from maternity to nursery age.
She said: "Ideally I'd probably want to go into a role that works around child hours.
"Even if I could do what I'm doing now with more flexibility.
"It would be nice for my husband to have paternity as well but I think for me I would need to have from maternity leave to nursery years off."
Nora would also like to have her own babymoon before the arrival of her little one.
She said: "The idea is you know you're pregnant and when it's advisable you can travel then you go on holiday.
"It's for you and your partner to spend time together before you become a family.
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00:00 I keep seeing everyone doing theirs so get ready with me whilst I go through my pregnancy stipulations.
00:07 Number one might seem fairly obvious but no ring, no baby.
00:13 Putting religious reasons aside, if you can't commit to me, how do I know you can commit to having a child?
00:19 I would like to be at least 30.
00:23 I'm not that bothered about being a very young mum, I very much want to enjoy married life and being able to be free and do whatever I want without having to think of a baby.
00:35 So at least 30.
00:37 I will not be working from maternity up until the baby can go to nursery.
00:43 So even then, once the baby goes to nursery, I'll probably get a job that works around my child's hours.
00:50 Babymoon is mandatory for the first child.
00:53 Any children we have after that, I don't care as much just because taking kids on holiday is more of a headache than a holiday.
01:01 So for the first one, babymoon is mandatory.
01:04 One push present per child.
01:08 If I'm carrying our baby for nine months and going through the hell that comes with pregnancy,
01:15 I think, why wouldn't you want to get me a push present? This doesn't even need to be on the list.
01:20 I've even taken the liberty to think of a little bit of a savings plan.
01:25 So if you put £150 a month for every month that I'm pregnant, which is nine months,
01:30 we should have about £1,350, which will be, you know, a very nice handbag or a pair of shoes.
01:38 I need to have a private room.
01:41 I'd settle for a semi-private room for my delivery. Childbirth is just a really scary, traumatic thing.
01:47 And I just don't want to be around loads of women giving birth before I give birth.
01:52 We would need to own a house or at least a three bedroom flat before having a child.
01:59 The baby will obviously need a nursery.
02:02 And then I would like for us to have a guest bedroom where friends and family can stay to help us.
02:08 Or we could even have a night nurse.
02:12 Another one would be baby classes that we both attend together.
02:18 I'm not raising this baby on my own, so everything that I'm going to learn in those baby classes,
02:23 my husband needs to know how to do too, in case I'm not there.
02:26 Anything I abstain from, he needs to abstain from too, especially when he's with me.
02:34 I don't care too much if he's gone out with his friends and he's, I don't know, drinking or eating sushi or whatever.
02:42 But if you're with me, you don't do those things.
02:45 Lastly, you need to pay for my personal trainer and my meal subscription plan after I give birth.
02:54 The way my body looks is drastically going to change once I have a child.
02:59 And I want to feel like the best version of myself, and I think that that will be necessary.