Babies Babies Babies!

Ascendo said:

This is why I'm glad I got a vasectomy.

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Audiomechanic said:

+1

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Purge187 said:

After being part of the lives of my beautiful baby nieces over the past few years, I'm less opposed to having kids than I once was--which is to say I'm only about 80% opposed to parenthood instead of 100%.

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Yeah, other people's kids are great-ish.

thankful_in_VT said:

So I've been around a bunch of pregnant women lately and women who have recently had babies.

Is it just me or is the whole baby wanting thing slightly catchable?

There has to be some reason that whole groups of women all seem to get pregnant all at the same time.

Is "baby fever" real or just a sociopsychological phenomenon?

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uhmm I dont know but I only went back to church in 2012, and was aware that one of the most popular girls in my peer group was having her first.
Another girl had had already had one earlier that year.
By fall, 3 more announced they were prego.
In 2013, The first 3 had their babies. In the summer and fall, a few more announced pregancies. And the popular girl announced baby #2.
Then by christmas, one that had had hers in march was already pregnant with her #2.
This year, popular girl had her #2 in june, the other girl will have her #2 in like a week, the one who announced hers last fall had the baby in March, One who had a baby in April 2013 announced she will have another this fall, a girl who doesn't go to my church but is bff's with the popular girl announced in April that she will have a baby in October, the other girl who had her first at the same time in march as the one who announced #2 at christmas is having HER #2 THIS Christmas, another girl who got married in March 2013 will have her first in early 2015, the girl who had hers in early 2012 is trying for another one, a girl who adopted a baby in 2011 suddenly got to adopt another one in january this year and the popular girl already wants to try for #3 next year

And I don't have baby fever AT ALL.
I must be immune.

Baby Fever: realizing that you are at a point in time where you want/need a child. It gets worse as women get older. Though I seem to be working in reverse.

In the past 2014 I have had about 5 friends all of children around the same time, my daughter was born in jan, I have two friends that have children born around the same time and a friend that had twins the next month. None of us planned this none of us even knew about the other until after the second trimester. It was so strange.

Heck, all I have to do to find a cure for baby rabies is to go to a restaurant!

My sister has 2 kids, so the pressure's off from my side of the family.

My girl loves babies...just doesn't want to push one out and be responsible for it's upbringing.

Yep, a woman seeing a picture of baby pretty much triggers them to say "Aww... I want a baby!". Just as when a husband sees his wife something tends to trigger inside him that says "My wife is sexy!". BTW I realize not all men/women think this of course. But for both sexes we have our own things we deal with.

NothingIsImpossible said:

Yep, a woman seeing a picture of baby pretty much triggers them to say "Aww... I want a baby!". Just as when a husband sees his wife something tends to trigger inside him that says "My wife is sexy!". BTW I realize not all men/women think this of course. But for both sexes we have our own things we deal with.

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I need to see the study

Who needs a study. Just watch any women see a baby picture on FB.

NothingIsImpossible said:

Who needs a study. Just watch any women see a baby picture on FB.

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Not all women. I frequent other Christian Child Free groups as well, and I can guarantee there are a lot more women out there than you might think who absolutely do not have that reaction to baby pictures. Quite the opposite, in fact. Most of the reaction is more along the lines of, "Thank God that's not mine."