My husband has known that I was ready to start our family for a long time. But we waited because he was in medical school and we figured that any child that we had would want to eat.

So once he began his residency and I was midway through my own graduate program I brought it up again. He said, "Oh, Dear." He said it the way that Piglet always says it to Pooh or Tigger when they have a dangerous scheme in mind.

I rationally presented my case: I have baby lust, the timing was good, I really want to, if we wait until we are financially sound we will be the oldest parents on earth, I'm really having baby lust, we will only have one more year in New York after I graduate and it would be silly for me to get a job for just one year so we might as well "use" that year to have a baby, I have baby lust, I'm almost 30, and oh yeah, I really want to! I guess he figured that like they say on Star Trek or Star Wars or someplace, "Resistance is futile, you will Assimilate." So he said OK. Then he started warming up to the idea.

He still says that I'm obsessed though. I bought him male vitamins the other day and when he read the ingredients and came to the part about bovine prostate he looked at me and said, "Oh, Dear!"

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