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Romancing the Babies

Julie Kovacs

Nadya Suleman was in love with being an Octomom
Jon and Kate were in love with having sextuplets plus twins
which did not equal octuplets but came close, anyways.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a Quiverfull they are,
having a baby every year, sometimes two at once.
Maria del Carmen Bousada, even though single and 66,
wanted a child badly enough to have twins.

The baby-centered western world has no shortage of women
being in love with babies, childbirth, and children
lavishing expensive necessities upon them like the six hundred dollar
stroller from the Land of Nod,
or two hundred dollar diaper bag from Great Beginnings.
Once the baby is born with a smile on its face, happy to
greet the world, mom is already frazzled with the crying and screaming
from the tiny one who is needy and dependent, not in love with the mother.
The romance of the babies died when Mommy was forced to face
the reality of taking care of the baby. The once blossoming and firm
twenty year old woman now has a sagging middle and lines forming
a tic tac toe pattern across her face from endless nights of sleeplessness.
The romance of the babies is dead and the romance of the children will die
once the myth of a child’s unconditional love is broken by a nine-year-old
screaming, “I hate you Mom.”

People would ask me why I am not in love with children.
I would simply tell them it is because I am in love with my bunnies,
sticking my smallest purple toy bunny in a baby harness and walk around
the local mall, just to see what kind of reaction I would get.

But since I do not romance babies, children, or childbirth,
I will romance chocolate, poetry, my bunnies and more chocolate,
happy and content with them.

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