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baby_fever

baby fever

English

Noun

baby fever (uncountable)

  1. (slang, humorous or pejorative) An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
    • 2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library (2004), ISBN 9780786544066, page 75:
      Then a man passed by with his child on his shoulders. This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous.
    • 2011, Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air, Grand Central Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780446558679, unnumbered page:
      I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever.
    • 2011, Sara Horn, My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife: A One-Year Experiment... and Its Surprising Results, Harvest House Publishers (2011), ISBN 9780736942133, page 31:
      A year after we married, I got a bad case of baby fever.

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