Oh baby
Posted by Joelle
February 21, 2008
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What is going on round here? Is everybody conspiring to make me hopelessly, inconceivably broody?
Not one but two cute as a button little tots have been brought into the office to visit this week by their doting, maternity leave mothers. Little Francesca gets more lovely and more interesting everytime I see her. One friend is glowingly pregnant; an aquaintance is due next week, exactly 9 months after her wedding night; and my colleague brings news of his sister in labour. And I swear the streets are filled with more mothers and toddlers than ever.
As if the plotting of the world around me isn’t enough my favourite bloggers are conspiring too, with their adorable children and heartwarming posts about new borns. (Congratulations Wood, Dutch and sweet Juniper!)
I don’t make things easier on myself either. This weekend I’m headed on down to bugaboo capital of London, Dulwich, to visit Kids.Modern, a children’s design fair organised by Show Home, to check out for you, dear readers, the relaunch of Clothkits. I’d recommend it to any sprog bound readers in London, as it is bound to be good.
Well, I’ve too few bedrooms and too many holidays I still want to take before I can join in this baby spree. So, for the time being, I’ll just have to window shop kids design fairs and offer up my services as a babysitter to my friends.
N.B The bottle in the picture above is decidedly not making me broody. It is a rather dubious piece of packaging for some pina colada we picked up in a Spanish supermarket: ‘Solo para Adultos’. I guess the current media debates about underage drinking and marketing booze to children have not spread to Spain. Anyway, I didn’t like to post pictures of other people’s children, so it does well enough as illustration.
8 comments Categories: adventure, design, london
February 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
“inconceivably broody” – he he! I do love a silly pun.
I am hella broody, also. So much so that if I hadn’t moved to London in July, I bet I’d be pregnant by now. I think my body clock needs to have a word with my brain and work something out between themselves.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I am also very very broody… I think we’re just all at that age now! At least you two are in a better situation to be able to consider children!! Where I work one girl has just left to go on maternity leave, and another is leaving at teh end of March for her maternity leave, so I have been surrounded by it too!
Luckily though, this means I can subdue my baby longings by making lots of cute baby things for the newborns – I have found some really cute things to make (including tiny mary jane style booties – so cute!!!)
Also, I manage to convince myself each month that I must be pregnant cos I FEEL pregnant… until I once again am proven wrong and that the swollen belly is due to too many takeaways!!
February 21st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
That’s a very patriarchal perspective, Miss Emily! The only difference is that Jo and I are married (not to each other). Tsk tsk!
February 21st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I’m the least broody seemingly. Well, whenever I see an adorable child I get broody and I might make my mum’s friend’s baby a blanket, but I also don’t feel like I want a baby right now. I want a dog first! A pug or a french bulldog. Something cute-ugly.
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
No, the difference is you are both settled in long term relationships (and have got married as part of that), whereas I have only been with D a year, and I think that planning a baby at the early stages of a relationship when you’re not settled and know you’ll have to move house in the summer isnm’t really sensible!
Plus, I don’t think there is anything wrong with wanting to be married before having children. Just because it’s not best for everyone doesn’t mean it’s not best for me.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
I completely agree, honey! I just don’t think that there’s really any perfect time for a baby to come along and change your world – they come when they feel like it and you make the best of it! Everyone’s lives, relationships, and perspectives are different – only you know when is good for you. In the meantime, let’s just coo over cute little babies and make lots of bootees for other people!
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
At least you all probably have cousins or family members who will have babies you can play with. No one in my family has a baby for me to play with so I’m relying on you guys to get broody overload and produce one soonish… just kidding. Kind of.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I had a mad moment the other week where I got in a big strop in case one of our brothers got a girl pregnant before I had a baby. It went something like “we’re the oldest, we should be first!”. All three brothers are single, so hopefully I’ll be okay.