Baby Fever Anyone?

What is Baby Fever?

By definition it is a “colloquial term for the intense desire to have a baby.”

But what does that really mean?

To parents it’s the fear of their young child wanting to become a parent at an early age. To women who want kids, it’s that time of their life that they feel this constant feeling in their gut that the time for getting pregnant is now. Some call this their “internal clock ticking.” But for others it may mean something completely different.

I always heard elders saying “she’s going to get “baby fever” if she baby-sits a well-behaved child.” And I never got it, how can watching a baby make you want a baby?

I never had that intense feeling of wanting a baby to take care of. I never wanted to bring a child into this world to have “someone to love me.” Maybe because I had people who loved me. And of course, I had enough love for myself that I never had that thought.

So, for me, “baby fever” was something totally different. It made me not want kids for a very long time. It made me focus on my goals, my education, my dreams, my ambitions, and then my career. And even as I watched all my friends have their babies and my family members building their families. I had “baby fever” but not by its normal definition. I saw it as a real fever…meaning something you didn’t want to get.

UNTIL….I did!

Years later I met the man my soul loves and then I got baby fever, the real baby fever. And I got it BAD! From the moment I met this man I have dreamt of having a beautifully blended baby with this man as his father. I knew almost from day 1 that I wanted to have a child now.

And now that I have one who is a 16 months old, teething toddler who cries what seems to be constantly and refuses to eat unless he feeds himself. I am having baby fever, the kind by definition, again!

I want another baby so bad, I’m dreaming of it! I’m constantly thinking about having a little girl. Constantly!

It’s the only thing I can think of! But a part me has to wonder if this is only because so many around me are pregnant. At this moment I have one of my closest friends pregnant with twins, my niece pregnant with her first, and my step-daughter pregnant with her first. But I know deep down inside I want another baby.

So, by definition, I have “baby fever” BAD!