baby fever

baby fever (uncountable)

1. (slang, humorous or derogatory) An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
   • 2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library (2004), →ISBN, 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, 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, page 31:

     A year after we married, I got a bad case of baby fever.

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