Childbearing is a unique experience for women. The associated worries are universal and inevitable. For those with mental illness, this issue is even more complicated. The purpose of this study was to learn how depressed women thought and felt when they had to decide on whether they want to get pregnant or not. Eight outpatients diagnosed with depressive disorders in a northern medical center were included in this study. Every participant was interviewed by a semi-structured probe, and the whole process was tape-recorded. The interview data were transcribed verbatim from audiotape. Transcriptions were analyzed using empirical phenomenological steps adapted from Giorgi. Three major concepts were generated from the interview data. These themes were: whether they should have a baby or not; what to do if child-bearing seems impossible; and what to do once the mother role has been reconstructed. The results not only help health care providers work closer with depressed women when they have to face the choices among pregnancy issues, but also help provide better care.