# It’s been 5 months already?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-been-5-months-already/402614>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-been-5-months-already/402614 "2007-05-03T15:18:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-been-5-months-already/402614/21 "2007-05-04T16:55:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Auntbeast]  
My first words when they handed my daughter to me were “I want five more just like her.” That was it. I was done. She had me.[About 1 minute old](http://www.chicksrock.net/kate/pages/012.htm)  
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Wipes away tear. 🙂 What a beauty! Here’s hoping for this for all our pregnant Dopers!

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**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-been-5-months-already/402614/22 "2007-05-04T19:35:53Z")

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The three months I was on maternity was the first time since I was 11 that I didn’t have a job.

Don’t you worry your pretty little head. You’ll have plenty to do. Schedule about 10 hours a day for holding your child and saying “I made this? How neato! How beautiful! Look at the little toe nails! Awww, she’s sleepin’!” etc. ad naseum.

I was a wreck my first day back to work. Now I’m plotting on how to stay home and have another one. Wanna buy my house? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-been-5-months-already/402614/23 "2007-05-04T19:47:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Auntbeast]  
The three months I was on maternity was the first time since I was 11 that I didn’t have a job.

Don’t you worry your pretty little head. You’ll have plenty to do. Schedule about 10 hours a day for holding your child and saying “I made this? How neato! How beautiful! Look at the little toe nails! Awww, she’s sleepin’!” etc. ad naseum.

I was a wreck my first day back to work. Now I’m plotting on how to stay home and have another one. Wanna buy my house? 🙂  
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Thank you. Its scary, and gets overwhelming if I think about it to much. Mouse\_Spouse accuses me of pregnancy denial. (I’m not doing anything stupid or dangerous, like drinking a bunch of booze while smoking Cuban cigars. I avoid talking about things like buying a mini-van and freaked out in Babies “R” Us. _It was all the pastels, I swear!_)

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