I know - I've found them. I have had to change my route around town if I go shopping in my lunch hour. To begin with my husband kept reminding me that this happens to all women 'of a certain age' - their body clocks start ticking. All women, on reaching this 'certain age', I am told, start experiencing a desire to keep something else alive. This is a precursor to the baby stage.
Psychologists take note.
But this huge change of attitude to having children has not just affected me. He too has been bitten by the baby bug. No decision we make seems to be totally spontaneous - we automatically consider the long term consequences for if we ever have children. Something for the Weekend is produced and edited by the NorthLodge Collective. All original material Copyright 2000.