Must Be Something in the Water
All of a sudden, everyone is pregnant.
Okay, maybe not everyone, but the women in my church have suddenly been announcing pregnancies left and right. Never mind that every celebrity female of childbearing age seems to have a baby bump, but now it’s hitting my local community. I don’t know if there was some big conspiracy among the men in my town to get their wives pregnant, but whatever they decided on it must have worked. By winter time we’ll have a huge cumulative baby shower.
Have there always been this many pregnant women running around? The last time I remember seeing so many pregnant women was when my husband and I were trying to get pregnant without success. Every pregnant woman who waddled by was a reminder that I wasn’t pregnant even though I desperately wanted to be.
Now that I’m finished having babies, I find myself jealous of these women for some weird reason. Do I want to have more babies? Heck no. It’s the same old pang, though…that realization that these women are doing something magical and wonderful, and I can’t.
Is this baby boom happening elsewhere too, or is it just my town?
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Jenna Flint says...
well it certainly isn’t jut your community because I live in the NW corner of CT and every one is either pregnant or just had there baby or pregnant again like me! it must be all over the place or like when you or someone clsoe gets a new car you start seeing them everywhere! there is a name for it but I can’t remember what it is called but I think when you have kids you tend too zone in on your child’s/childeren’s potetial playmates/partners even though it’s a long way off for the partners on you can keep an ear out for danger to warn them at a later time!
Ryn says...
It’s not just your town…it’s my town and even my hometown and the old town where I went to college (and they’re all pretty spread out!) It seems like all my friends either got pregnant at the same time or as soon as one had a baby another was due or just getting pregnant. I haven’t ventured down that road yet but I’m sure I will be the brunt of someone’s comment when the time comes.