baby fever

An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.

Pronunciation

Noun

  1. An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.

    slang, humorous or derogatory

    • Then a man passed by with his child on his shoulders. This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous. - 2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, published 2004, page 75
    • 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, Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air, Grand Central Publishing
    • A year after we married, I got a bad case 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, page 31

Synonyms

baby rabies