Did You Ever Have Baby Fever?
Oh, baby fever.
Your biological clock starts ticking and suddenly all you think about are babies, babies, babies. Everywhere you look you notice them. A doe-eyed, blonde haired baby might even show up in your dreams. You begin to wonder what your baby might look like. You fantasize about baby names and book mark cute nurseries for future reference. Your ovaries might begin to feel like they will explode any day. It seems like nearly every woman around you either has one or is dying to get their hands on a bubbling baby of their own.
I’m not sure if I ever got baby fever. I mean, sure, I dreamed about having a baby. I wondered what my little boy or girl might look like. I even had a list of baby names going. But when it came to obsessing over babies, I just wasn’t there. Of course I had that driving desire to have a baby. I knew I wanted a baby at some point in my life and I knew the time would just feel right. And it was.
Ok, maybe I was in baby fever denial, but for me, it just felt like the right time.
Did you ever get baby fever?
{photo of my sweet Wolf by Leah Verwey}
Most definitely. I spent the better part of 2 years browsing parenting sites, pregnancy forums, names, clothing, all things baby. I think I had a registry set up at 3 different baby retailers. And my husband had told me without a doubt we were already DONE. I just obsessed anyway. For literally hours a day. For irony factors, round about the time I got tired of dreaming about all the baby things my mind could conjure, I got pregnant with my last kiddo.
Every time I see his pic, I just think “He’s such a Wolf! That is so his best name.”
I’ve only gotten it since having Westley (who is 4 months). When he was like 2 weeks old I was like MUST.HAVE.ANOTHER.
I think I might turn into octomom.
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I *have* a baby. 20 weeks old. And I want another. Today. And I had the most horrible pregnancy and labor. And I. Want. Another. Deep breaths.
Yes, for the four painful years we tried to have kids. And even though I have the most beautiful (of course!), sweet 7.5 month old twins I can’t wait to have another. I just hope I can.
if you had told 16 year old lauren that 26 year old lauren would be obsessed with babies and pretty much all things pregnancy and birth (I’m even becoming a doula with hopes of midwifery someday) – she’d have laughed in your face. but. here I am, 10 years later and not married but already picking out baby names and reading more mommy blogs and parenting websites than I really should.
sigh. baby fever is real!