In the first stanza the narrator of the poem doesn't like the fact that her mother planned to conceive her. She didn't want to be brought into the world by such extreme preparation, as when her mother charted her ovulation cycle on the calender. She would like to have been conceived in passionate lust and heat.
In the second stanza she changes her mind when she is out to dinner with a friend who reminds her that she was "wanted". Then she reframed or reinterpreted her mother's story to include having been so wanted that her mother would endure the physical pain of delivery, to have her. She (the mother)would not have felt satisfied in the world without her. In Sharon Olds' imagery of the sun, the moon and the stars, and cartwheeling, the reader knows how much joy she is feeling.
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