Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. I agree that it is a very well written piece. I read that Elle article myself and stumbled across this while doing further research over this “baby fever” phenomenon. Thank you for also mentioning that not all women have this. I am on the side of the Elle article writer in the sense that I have never felt this urge. Like her, I am fascinated by it and perhaps jealous that I cannot experience something which could be so affirming to my decisions in life. Basically I’ve actually been waiting for something like this to come along and drag me down the garden path of procreation. I feel I need this sort of validation to take that step and its not happening. Like the writer in the magazine, I am left high, dry and level headed in a logical headlock with the idea of gestation and child rearing. Lets face it, logically- why would you do it? I became aware that this force was taking hold of my friends while giving me the cold shoulder. Said friends were getting pregnant and then telling me that they had had this “urge” for some time. My response would be “what urge?” I think that this knowledge is so powerful to share because I’ve often felt many people, friends included, assume that every woman has this biological feeling. Alas, not so. I am left looking at babies in the same way that a 19th century gay man must have looked at women, with “I know I’m supposed to want this but…” So there are us fever-less individuals that have a sense of jealousy over your current suffering.