The Baby Syndrome

Ever heard of the China Syndrome?

Well this has nothing to do with that.


This is the "Baby Syndrome" another product of my mind. It deals with: babies.

So what is this "Baby Syndrome" you ask? Well, I'm glad you asked, because I'm going to tell you whether you wanted me to or not.

The Baby Syndrome is, in short, the effect that pregnancy, generally unplanned pregnancy, or newborns, have on other women, in this case, generally those under the age of 18.

When a woman is pregnant, everybody says she had a glow, everybody says she's extra beautiful, and all her female friends are going: "oooo, how lucky for you!" and then, slowly, many of them come to the perspective that they want babies too. Now, when you are a mature adult in a stable relationship(I don't really care if you're married), that's great!

However, I tend to see this most in young girls, whose female friends generally are having an unplanned pregnancy, or just had a baby from a good old one-night-stand. All of a sudden, perfectly abstinant, or girls who always use protection, or girls with no desire to have children before, suddenly want kids. These are generally girls who are not ready for kids, who are not prepared to deal with them both mentally and financially. And who, until their friend's pregnancy, would likly have said they don't want kids for a LONG time.

This may be biologically programmed into women as a sort of passive-aggressive form of reproductive competition, ie: their friends are having kids, which means their genes are being passed on, while the non-mother female are not, and somewhere in their subconscious, their old animal instincts realize this, and trigger the "Baby Effect".

The effect that suspends rational thinking and causes girls and some women, who seem to be less susceptible to it, to suddenly desire children. Regardless of financial burden or what have you. Their reasons are generally "well she was so happy while she was pregnant" or "her baby was so cute!" Reasons that are very short term and give no concern to the pains of child-birth, the menagerie of mood-swings during pregnancy, and oh yeah, the years of little sleep, potty training, and having to care for a young child.

Like I said, "suspends rational thought." Guys, on the other hand, are generally unaffected, rarely does a guy get excited over another girl's baby, or another girl's pregnancy. Some who do are often gay, some may have a pregnancy fetish. But your average guy just doesn't get it.

Young girls, from ages very young to about 12, are raised to believe motherhood is the best thing since sliced bread. Don't believe me? watch one of the cartoon channels. For 13 and up, you've got Bratz(girls who would, ironically, lose all their prized social status if they became pregnant), and for 12 and down, you have an endless assortment of "baby" dolls. Ones that pee, ones that fake-poop, ones that make that class experiment with an egg look like an exercise in cooking.

So, that, in short, is the "Baby Syndrome" the strange effect that pregnancy and newborns seem to have on other, non-pregnant/non-mothers, generally under the age of 18, that causes them to suspend the rational thought of waiting till they are mature and financially setup enough, in exchange for the desire to get pregnant and have a baby.

You want a baby so bad? Go care for your friend's baby for a few months. I'm sure your friend would love it, and you might learn some REAL info about having a kid. Not all the hype of how cute babies and how wonderful pregnancy is made out to be.